Official Trailer: 3 seasons and 30 episodes – while it is a slow burn you get hooked from the first episode thanks to Stephen King’s writing, visualization, and excellent performances by actors. Of course, we all know Stephen King is a great storyteller. He is in full throttle here. One can argue he has done better than this but the threads he explored in the third season is thought provoking.
Eldorado refers to a mystical city of gold in South America, sought by 16th century Spanish explorers. The term originates from the Spanish phrase el dorado, meaning the gilded one. Eldorado is a metaphor for any place that promises wealth or great opportunity. This is something about writer Sujatha I liked a lot. I started reading Sujatha’s short stories, novellas, novels from my high school days. He introduced scientific and
Writer himself is on a journey from Bangalore to Chennai in Brindavan express. Travel in first class. In Sujatha’s style of description of the environment we get to visualize the Bangalore city railway station. College age students wearing round spectacles with Hadley Chase novels in their hand surveying where young girls are seated. Bored passengers waking up and down the platform. Train needs to cross Cantonment before the coffee/tea/snacks/fast food/
We live in a time where information is accessible and available in plenty. Information here means both real, mis-, and fake. Challenge is filtering the real or facts out of the rest. One area this is highly prevalent is the one which is dear to all of us – health and diet. Health and diet are areas where science is still in progress. When it comes to infectious diseases and
Official Trailer: [SPOILERS AHEAD…] Sivanesan (Raj Kiran), father of Murugan (Dhanush) owns and runs an Idli eatery in a small village. Idlis and its accompaniments, sambar and chutney, are prepared in traditional way – using manual stone grinders – aattukal and ammikal. Villagers are fan of his cooking and big patrons. It is a landmark for the village. Murugan wants his father to switch to electric grinders. Father doesn’t want
Official Trailer: The opening stretch is one of the creative and energetic openings for a movie I have seen lately. Agan, the protagonist, enters the reception of his ex-girlfriend and wants to know the reason why she ditched him. In the heat of the moment when he tries to stop her, he inadvertently pulls the thaali from her neck. The ruckus that ensues uses is wonderfully shot using props one
Even though evolution was covered in school curriculum, my curiosity awakened when I came across Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Selfish Gene gave me a better understanding of genes and evolution with less scientific terms without dumbing down or simplifying too much. It had the balanced approach of handholding us while forcing us to apply our thinking to get the scientific concepts. Selfish Gene led to running through other books
Watched Fool Me Once series on Netflix without knowing it is based on a novel by Harlan Coben. Thriller is an interesting watch. So checked the writer and found out about Harlan Coben. Thanks to you may also like AI (need to bring in AI somewhere to sound I am also up to date on tech), found out Netflix is flooded with series based on Harlan Coben novels. Hasn’t read
Official Trailer: Do we think twice before deciding to buy a secondhand item online? Should we? After watching Target, the latest Korean thriller, we may think twice before we buy or sell online!! Target works for most part before it ends up in a conventional way. It builds the tension progressively notching it up higher and keeps us intrigued about the happenings. The protagonist buys a used washing machine online.
Official Trailer: The plot revolves around an ex-cop turned pimp who gets in to a situation where his girls go missing. Initially he thinks they have left him. The last girl left her mobile in the car. Ex-cop tracks down the number of the caller who picked up the missing girls and they are from the same number. He can’t locate the address since the caller asks the girls pick