A Beautiful Mind

By: Apoorva Dubey (Spoilers Ahead) “You can’t come up with a formula to change the way you experience the world.”-John Nash A Beautiful Mind is a movie directed by Ron Howard, starring Russell Crowe. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Sylvia Nasar. Today I am going to talk about…

Good Will Hunting

By: Rabani Khurana “Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them” Good Will Hunting directed by Gus Van Sant perfectly captures expressions of self-doubt and reticence. The movie revolves around Will Hunting, played by Matt Damon, who fails to believe in himself despite having an immense amount of potential, being a…

Shutter Island

By: Dania Santhosh Shutter Island is one of those movies that leave you utterly perplexed at the ending. The film, without a doubt, is intense. We are given an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. An excellent ensemble, but the viewers and critics had a different say on the movie….

Dear Zindagi

By: Brinda Mathur “Log abhi bhi yeh samajhte hain ki dimaag ki problem hona bohot sharam ki baat hai. Body ki problem? Woh normal hai, sabko bataa sakte hain.” Dear Zindagi is one of the very few mainstream Bollywood movies that address mental health and therapy, unlike Bollywood’s usual go-to solution to go out and…

Silver Linings Playbook

By: Samantha Roy Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell, was released in 2012 and oh, what a treat this movie has been to watch. The movie mainly follows Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) and Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence) and their lives as they try to find a way to cope with their surroundings and find…

Ordinary People (1980)

By: Erende Sangma Ordinary People may not be everyone’s cup of tea. The movie might seem tough to love with no heavy plot, resulting in most people finding it dull and not being able to get past 30 minutes of it. It also has a bad rep of an undeserving Oscar winner and is sadly…

The Perks of Being A Wallflower

By: Mehaak Pasricha I remember reading The Perks of Being A Wallflower, and begging the person whorecommended the book to me, to just tell me the end or the climax, but only once I finished it did I realise that this book is too grand for a climax. This was one of the first times…

BoJack Horseman

By: Jolynne John While researching about what to write, I came across a tweet that summarizes this series in about 10 words, ‘A show about a depressed horse that is incredibly human.’ Bojack Horseman, from the genius mind of Raphael Bob-Waksberg, is an animated series about a washed up sitcom star of the 90s living…