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Take a little time to go through the following comment: “I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists (if I were asked to do it again).” Now consider this other remark: “If I were to stop doing it,...
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With a summer completely devoid of competitive football, the English Premier League’s (EPL) arrival after a three month hiatus was a breath of fresh air. I won’t deny that I myself get caught up with...
View ArticleNarcos season 3: Can the Cali cartel be as grotesquely violent and savage as...
Following the demise of the Medellin cartel and its kingpin, a certain Mr Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, it is now time for the Cali crew to take its claim as the new lords of blow in the latest...
View ArticleIs Trent Alexander-Arnold the new Steven Gerrard for Liverpool?
Ask football fans to identity their favourite player and majority of the answers would include names from their favourite team’s first 11. In other words, the homegrown star, the local lad who made it...
View ArticleJennifer Lawrence’s new horror-thriller, Mother!, will send biting chills...
As the age-old saying goes, visitors, like fish, stink after three days. And currently, there is no better person than Jennifer Lawrence to vouch for this truism. The full length trailer of J-Law’s...
View ArticleDespite his striking numbers, Wayne Rooney has never truly helped England...
The English Premier League is arguably the best football league in the world. But considering their wretched record in international tournaments, it seems that England’s national side never got the...
View ArticleLiverpool got lucky in the UEFA Champions League group draw, but will luck be...
For a huge football fanatic like me, not giving two hoots about the UEFA Champions League (UCL) is a bit unheard of. But that is precisely what yours truly has been doing for the past several years....
View ArticleAfter defeating Voldemort, Daniel Radcliffe battles nature in ‘Jungle’
Ask any aspiring actor around to spell out a sure shot way of becoming famous overnight and they would invariably answer that landing a memorable character is the key to unlock this particular treasure...
View ArticleLucknow Central: Jailhouse rock or jailhouse schlock?
I really have to hand it to Farhan Akhtar. I am sure that the son of the renowned lyricist and screenwriter, Javed Akhtar, must have faced a huge dilemma when casting for Lucknow Central. As an actor,...
View Article‘Gerald’s Game’ has the potential to be a genre classic, but can it do...
It looks like Stephen King is on a cinematic roll these days. The American author of horror just had two of his adaptations, The Dark Tower and It, hit the big screen. On the TV front, Mr Mercedes and...
View ArticleWill Alicia Vikander make a better Lara Croft than Angelina Jolie?
There was a point in my life when I desperately wanted to be an archaeologist. While I was young and impressionable, the primary reason for one of my earliest choices of profession was the influence of...
View ArticleThe Shape of Water: A quirky and twisted spin on Beauty and the Beast that...
When it comes to bizarre, peculiar or quirky, there is one man you can truly trust – Guillermo del Toro. He is one of the great idiosyncratic talents of contemporary cinema, and he is one man with a...
View ArticleMother! is an extremely confusing riddle wrapped in a mystery, hidden inside...
Every once in a while, there comes a piece of visual art that is bashed and praised in equal measure. A movie which has the remarkable potential to infuriate and stimulate at the same time. Facing an...
View ArticleWill Annihilation be to Natalie Portman what Alien and Terminator were for...
While movies should solely be judged on artistic merit, contemporary cinema is not lucky enough to have been afforded this particular luxury. Amongst various other influences, one factor that can...
View ArticleFIFA World Cup 2018: No Lionel Messi and no Cristiano Ronaldo?
Brazil is the go-to team for an overwhelming majority of my countrymen when it comes to the FIFA World Cup. But Argentina is arguably the second most widely supported international team, as far as...
View ArticleKingsman: The Golden Circle is a case of too many A-list cooks spoiling a...
Filmmaker Matthew Vaughn is notoriously known for opting out of sequels of popular movie franchises that he himself is responsible for creating. The Kick-Ass franchise was the first instance when...
View ArticleWill the force be with Star Wars: The Last Jedi?
Unless you’ve been hiding in a galaxy far, far away, you have probably heard that Disney has just dropped the trailer for the eighth episode of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Looking at the footage from...
View ArticleBest FIFA Men’s Player: The Messi vs Ronaldo debate should be put to rest...
It might seem like an eternity, and rightly so, because it has now been a whole decade since the juggernaut that is the duopoly of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi over football awards, started...
View ArticleChampions League Round of 16: Xabi Alonso gives us some nerve-racking...
Show me a football fan that doesn’t like Xabi Alonso, and I’ll show you a liar. The former Spain player had a long and glittering career with the likes of Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Liverpool....
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