World Cinema Review: Even God isn’t Immune to Malfunctioning Judiciary in the Surrealism-Laced Satire ‘Karuppu’By Vidal DcostaAugust 22, 20260 “Karuppu” is a think piece masquerading as a potboiler. In it, Sukumaran (Indrans), a helpless old man falls at the… Read More
Halfway2Halloween Halfway to Halloween: Meta Horror Movies (and TV) that are Spooky Season EssentialsBy Vidal DcostaApril 4, 20260 The seeds for meta horror were planted as far back as the 1930s with “Mark of the Vampire,” a Bela… Read More
Independent ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ and ‘Aruvi:’ A study of the Baddie Archetype in CinemaBy Vidal DcostaFebruary 13, 20260 Rooted in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and similar to the Jamaican Patois slang bad gyal , the term ‘baddie’… Read More
