Month: December 2016
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The Rise of Bollywood Superheroes
The distinction of high-brow and low-brow art is – pardon the pun – artificial. There is good art and there is bad art, irrespective of the genre. A badly made art movie cannot be better than a commercial movie with high production values just because it’s genre is supposed to be high-brow.
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Apollo 13 and the Spirit of Science
Apollo 13 is the most authentic movie about space flight that I have ever seen. Director Ron Howard went to great lengths to make the movie as accurate as possible. The dialogues between Apollo 13 crew and Houston are almost verbatim reproductions of the actual manuscript.
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Debunking the Self-help Myths
Here’s a fun fact. Each and every one of us has used self-help at some point in our life.