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About Sartaj Govind Singh

Notes from a distant observer: “Sartaj is a very eccentric fellow with a penchant for hats. He likes watching films and writes about them in great analytical detail. He has an MA degree in Philosophy and has been known to wear Mickey Mouse ears on his birthday.”

Early Review: Baby Driver (2017)

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

With Baby Driver, Edgar Wright has crafted a sly, whimsical and hardening genre film that emanates with wry invention and visual exuberance: even if it lacks the rich thematic depth, ingenious mosaic comic construction and witticisms of the British director’s … Continue reading →

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Review: Pirates of the Caribbean- Salazer’s Revenge (2017)

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

At this point, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has become the cinematic equivalent of a drunken man stumbling to a vague destination using the most inane route possible. As the series has worn on, its beating heart has resided … Continue reading →

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Review: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

Between its sordid soap opera antics and wholesome small-town sensibility; Twin Peaks felt like a sprawling Jungian collective unconscious of Americana that was always shifting to understand its heritage and legacy. In one of the most interesting and eccentric storylines … Continue reading →

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Review: Rachel Getting Married (2008)

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

In Rachel Getting Married, the late Jonathan Demme combines the form of Cinema Vérité with a candid fly on the wall style that has the awkwardness and intimacy of a pristinely preserved wedding video. In fact, in an interview with … Continue reading →

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Review: Alien: Covenant (2017)

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

A covenant is an agreement that can be made between a nation or people. In the context of the new film from Ridley Scott, it’s the name of the colony ship bound for a distant planet to repopulate and start … Continue reading →

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Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

Writer/Director James Gunn makes films with the eternal optimism of a nine-year-old, who desperately attempts to get two identical magnetic poles to attract one another. Often his movies contain contrary elements that depending on the subject matter and genre sensibility; … Continue reading →

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Review: Novecento (1976)

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

Bernardo Bertolucci’s historical epic 1900 (Novecento) is the final film in Kino Klassika’s “A World To Win: A Century of Revolution on Screen.” Inspired by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ famous declaration in The Communist Manifesto, the season aims to … Continue reading →

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My Brief Thoughts on The Last Jedi Panel, Poster and Trailer

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

In what has seemed like a wonderfully generational celebration that has unified various disparate fans of the popular franchise; the headline Last Jedi panel felt like a humbling bow to the Galactic festivities in Orlando. Patience was rewarded with new … Continue reading →

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Review: Prometheus (2012)

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

In the warm and pleasant summer of 2012, I left Ridley Scott’s Prometheus with a sense of majestic confusion. The film had cast a spell of bewilderment that has been hard to untangle in the intervening years. This was in … Continue reading →

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Brief Musings on Movies (March 12th-March 19th)

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Sartaj Govind Singh

Wild At Heart (1990) I am fundamentally undecided about David Lynch’s Wild At Heart. A part of me wants to endorse the picture solely for the fiery, passionate and erotically charged love story between Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula. (Laura … Continue reading →

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