Siddharth
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Latest posts by SiddharthThe "Bourne" series is the sort of thriller that nicely illustrates the paradoxical irony of The Vicarious Experience: in fact the series thrives on it. Few of us will ever get behind the wheels of fast cars at Doppler-shift speeds in the prime cities of Europe; encounter lethal adversaries and musc...
Posted on 5 June 2008 | 6:43 pm
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Lurking under several million dollars' worth of digital effects, Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean sequel got what was well deserved on the Oscars night. The pinnacle being the convincing computer generated cephalopod, the film's arch villain, the spectral buccaneer, barnacled Davy Jones - c...
Posted on 2 June 2008 | 2:47 pm
Read post"A Knight's Tale" is a manifestation of the concerted effort to lure our imagination into accepting that modern day humor can be easily amalgamated in a romantic comedy set in a period as early as the 14th Century. (The time period is deduced to be so as the "jester" of the story claims to have fini...
Posted on 2 June 2008 | 2:34 pm
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