In and around Melige, nearly everyone loves Subbanna’s hotel not love it, but love it. It becomes the second home of the entire people of that small town in Karnataka’s Thirthahalli Taluk, and it has almost become a must-visit joint from police officers to travelers to newspaper enthusiasts ‘shakhahaari’ khanavali for a quick tea or […]
Queen is an undisputedly special band and one of the best ever. Most music legends have periods when they are at their best but Queen falls into a category of musicians who have had several good times over the years. One such moment that has defined their career was the Montreal show in 1981. Freddie
Picture a story about a Nigerian adopted in America who becomes successful in Nigeria’s legal industry but moves to Uganda instead. Here, he falls for an Acholi woman and has to travel through traditional rites and customs before marrying her. That is Olushegun Achebe, or Shegun’s life as created by Kevin Johns Nabukenya in the
If you love strange, time hopping adventures that blend fantasy, science fiction, action and comedy then you need to know about the Alienoid duology. The first film is called Alienoid and it’s an absolute riot that mixes all four of those genres in pretty much the best way possible but it doesn’t finish there. It
Alex Romero (Jonny Beauchamp) has never had it easy. Along with battling alcohol, the protagonist of The Way Out has issues with intimacy in relation to men because of a bad relationship with his dad. Right as things start getting better for him, Alex gets hit with another huge blow. Barry Jay’s movie looks at
Movie Ovid, New York by the Belgian filmmaker Vito Rowlands, who lives in New York premiered worldwide during the Brooklyn Film Festival. An epic poem by a Roman poet Ovid serves as a basis for this film. In his Metamorphoses he wrote about Greek and Roman myths. Different parts of New York state (including the
A ballad is a kind of poetry or song that tells a story in short stanzas. Every line of the ballad is a lyrical poem which relates tales about heroism, love, tragedy and folklore. Ballads often use casual language and may start with an unusual setting or opening. Another important characteristic of ballads is the
The Latin phrase that gives the title to Antonin Svoboda’s film is a perfect summary of this story about an extraordinary woman who fights for her own release from past ghosts, which sleep but never quite die. A striking performance by Gerti Drassl, the Persona non grata herself, an Austrian #metoo heroine (whose narrative was
Economic trouble brings small-town people ordinary folk, really together, they seem helpless in the face of big business’s avarice and political opportunism. What kicks them into gear is an organizer a community organizer at that who might prefer to lead a self-interested comfortable life without much blame. It’s a stupidly fun formula, as heartening as
Just before the symbol era and after his classic early albums, Prince’s “Diamonds and Pearls” album was a collection of top-notch Prince compositions that doesn’t get the respect of his earlier albums. Maybe it was the ill advised dabbling in rap, maybe it was the focus on overtly sexual tracks. It could be argued that
