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Chernobyl Review
Riveting, and utterly revealing
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Game of Thrones Season 8 Review
Episode 1 The first episode of the final season of Game of Thrones premiered earlier today, and even the title sequence shows how far the series has come from its humble beginnings. A map that used to span the whole of Westeros and Essos now has only three significant areas of interest — Last Hearth, Winterfell and King’s Landing. Last Hearth is named so because it is the final place that gives people south of The Wall a sense of home and warm fire before they venture north to the colder climes. It is the northernmost castle in the country (not counting the three that belong to the Night’s Watch alongside The Wall) and is…
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Manusangada: A powerful film at an important time
Minutes into Manusangada, Kolappan (Rajiv Anand) receives a phone call. His dad has passed away at the crack of dawn. He is shocked, tears breaking out, but first, he has to take care of the practicalities. He asks the person on the call to get an ice box and promises to be there as soon as possible. Kolappan gets up from his bed and disappears off camera. We hear the sound of water first and then the howl of Kolappan. The camera then dutifully follows each of Kolappan’s four friends as they wake up and disappear off screen, much like Kolappan. He is a grown man, who cries under the…
