Have a look at image below, its Mario, it’s Level 8-4, it’s the dragon, it’s just before you complete the level and meet the princess….. but, you don’t have any powers, no Super Mushroom, no Fire Flower, no Starman….. What do you do? ….. if you are a 8/16bit console gamer, a regular one, then …
The first memory that the trailer of ‘The Disciple’ evoked was ‘Whiplash.’ I thought the movie is a rehash for an Indianized version. But the brand of Chaitanya Tamhane (Court, 2014) was enough for giving it a try. Some parallels do exist. The Guruji of ‘The Disciple’ is a hard taskmaster like Fletcher (Whiplash). Both …
The writing of sci-fi movies in Hollywood must be going something like this, so it is, there is a big problem, a grand science/tech solution is envisaged, it causes grander (unintended! unforeseen) complications resulting in lots of VFX done disasters, which is followed by a neat trick to stop it, close shave in the climax, …