Thursday, July 18, 2019

Film ratings & reviews on IMDb

As I have said, the internet and TV have entered into holy matrimony.

Their union will be a sealed deal as soon as we are able to get rid of money-guzzling satellite dish services.

Already, this (h)App-y marriage has produced many bonny bundles of joy: Netflix India, Amazon Prime, Zee5 and Hotstar, with many more siblings to follow.  

Through these apps I have gone about catching up with some of the finer films that we only get to hear about during award ceremonies, but never actually get to watch.  This is apart from the usual commercial films that we have access to.


Old or new, documentaries or films, genre-based or not, Hindi, English, regional or international languages, they're all included in the watch-list under my profile, gruvy-muvy on IMDb.

Also find my reviews of select films under the same profile.

A rough guide to my ratings on the database goes like this:

Stars (out of 10)
My reaction
5 or below
What’s all the hype about this one?
6-9
This is worth seeing
Perfect 10
You’re nuts for missing this!

A list of films/documentaries/shorts that are relevant to understanding the following topics can be found here:







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