Movies and Shows Log
Caution: Spoilers Ahead!
To watch
- 2001 : A Space Odyssey
- Ugly(2013)
- Marvelous Mrs. Emmy
- Shawshank Redemption
Watch timeline
December 2024
Dec 2024
Awaara(1951)
★★★ Aawaara gives us a taste of "the pull of poverty", an idea I've written about. The systematic pull of poverty that doesn't let the poor out of it's clutches. An act of thievery
Dec 2024
Baazigar(1993)
★★★ Psycho-thriller revenge story with an antihero on a murderous rampage. I can smell all the masala packed punch Indian cinema viewers would've experienced in the theatres with t
Dec 2024
Guide(1957)
★★★★ Captialism, Love and Spirituality. Covers a lot of themes in a single movie. There's something about the retro films that spark curiosity and enlightenment. The movie also sho
October 2024
Oct 2024
Samurai Champloo
(TV Show) ★★★ Very mushishi-esque and cowboy bebop chill vibes. Great animations and realistic sword fighting and techniques. Episodic and yet very engaging. I like the contrast be
May 2024
May 11, 2024
The Boy and the Heron
★★★ "Mom" as the central theme. Movie also revolves around the theme of grief. Gotta rewatch from a fresh perspective.
March 2024
Mar 2, 2024
Dune 2
★★★★★ Sci-fi, Drama, Thriller. Insanely good, amazing cinematography, sound design. Dune 2 makes you experience how the wheels are set in motion for a colossal event that occurs at
Mar 1, 2024
Anatomy of a fall
★★★★ Crime, Drama, Thriller Amazing cinematography. Great acting. Well written dialogues. An unimportant observation -- I sensed this movie was an adaptation of a theatre script fr
February 2024
Feb 25, 2024
The Cloud in Her Room(2010)
★★★ Drama Loneliness and love. Beautiful black and white shots. It doesn't feel like a well knitted movie but instead is a series of individual strands of occurrences.
September 2023
Sep 28, 2023
Anand
★★★★ Drama, Slice of Life Heavy. What struck me the most was that Anand, on multiple occassions, talked about how his situation had snatched away his ability to dream. Dreams that
August 2023
June 2023
Jun 25, 2023
The Piano Teacher
Drama, Romance Rivetting. Uncomfortable. Psychosexual drama. And perhaps something closer to the bizarreness. Neither of the main characters are likable and yet it is a difficult a
Jun 8, 2023
Spiderverse?
Superhero, Animated Epic sequel art-wise. Villain wants revenge from hero cliché.
May 2023
May 27, 2023
Haikyu
(TV Show) ★★★★ Sports Great anime, keeps viewers hooked until the end. Characters have been well developed with unique idiosyncrasies. Touches upon major concepts of growth and gri
May 23, 2023
Fast X
Action, Drama Movie mostly revolves around the same old "revenge" thingy. However, the story doesn't culminate by the end of the movie and hints towards another upcoming movie to c
May 19, 2023
Mushishi
(TV Show) ★★★★ [WIP] Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Drama [SPOILER] Binged Mushishi for the 4th time and it's as good as the first time. Slow paced, mysterious and sometimes tragic, Mu
May 11, 2023
Drive My Car
★★★★★ Murakami. Three parallel stories. [Intertextuality](https://youtu.be/XcTSPvGI-OY) adding meaning to the story. The beauty of a play and the power of a script.
May 9, 2023
Altered Carbon
(TV Show) ★★★ Mystery, Sci-fi [SPOILER] The show tries to capture a society where immortality has furthered the gap between those who could and couldn't afford newer *sleeves*. Hum
May 1, 2023
Stranger Things
(TV Show) ★★★★ Thriller When a kid disappears mysteriously into the woods, his friends, their adoloscent siblings, parents and the cops try the best way they can, while realising t
April 2023
Apr 26, 2023
Romance Doll
★★★★ Yuki Tanada Artistic, Bittersweet [SPOILER] A story about a man falling in love with his (future) muse that leads him to become an artist. A tragic magnum opus created to capt
Apr 25, 2023
Dead Evil Rise
★★★ Horror, Gore No filler plot. Scary every scene. Kept the audience at the edge of their seats throughout. Would recommend watching once.
Apr 22, 2023
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
(TV Show) ★★ Romance, Drama The show kickstarts with an intriguing idea of a *paid* wife. The plot shifts to a *shared* and paid wife concept. Ultimately shifted to a more clichéd
February 2023
Feb 25, 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once
★★★★ Creative, Multiverse, Drama, Sci-fi? Great concept, Very creative. Great Cinematography. Engaging throughout. Extremely fun to watch with friends in a theatre. Love the Wong K
January 2023
December 2022
2022
December 2021
Dec 17, 2021
Spiderman: No Way Home
★★★ Action, Superhero Decent movie. Mostly banks on the fame of previous spiderman movies
May 2021
May 30, 2021
Castle in the Sky
★★★★★ Mystery, Exploration, Comedy, Animated In love with the mystery and curiosity this movie creates and holds onto even after the movie.
April 2021
Apr 30, 2021
It's a boy-girl thing
★ Comedy, Fiction, Romance Good acting. Mild goody-goody drama. Storyline was okay. Lost its spark on rewatching.
Apr 23, 2021
Matrix reloaded
★★★★★ Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller Rewatched for the 5th time? And still packs a punch??? Came here after Tenet, this one still wins by a large factor. LEGENDARY.
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
Dec 25, 2020
Upstream Color
★★★★ Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery No dialogues after you finish 50% of the movies, yet the story progresses at a constant pace through visual parallels/similies. Excellent cinematography
Dec 24, 2020
So long my son
★★★★ Wang Xiaoshuai Drama Heart wrenching story of two chinese family and their bond. One child policy and it's effect on people.
Dec 16, 2020
Tokyo Sonata
★★★ Kiyoshi Kurosawa Drama, Life Slice of life. A great breather if you ever feel like escaping your normal day-to-day routine. Everyone needs to get their shit together at the end
Dec 13, 2020
Curse of the golden flower
★★ Action | Fighting Nice actions scenes. I don't like conspiracy thingies.
Others
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