Eeshaan Singh-Basu
Journalist, Writer and Audio Producer
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A Greta Gerwig Stan watches Jurassic Park
The Gen Z take on film history There’s a lot to be said for Steven Spielberg. Most of what’s said also seems to be overwhelmingly positive, for one of the greatest storytellers of our time.It fills me with regret that I was born too late to have witnessed the reception to Jurassic Park. It also…
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RomCom Roundup October 2023
Maya Angelou said something along the lines of “People won’t remember what you said, they won’t won’t remember what you did, they’ll remember how you made them feel”. Sometimes, you just need to feel a movie. Welcome to the RomCom Roundup. Yeah, so: Watching hot people fall in love is a pastime reserved for the…
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‘Disgusting…In a Horny Way’: “Bottoms” Review.
If you’re not expecting mild domestic terrorism to the soundtrack of “Total Eclipse of The Heart”, do not watch “Bottoms”. Despite the bombing that happens at two different points, implied and acted out murdering and just general absurdist comedy gore, there’s a beautiful innocence to the 2023 lesbian comedy that also masquerades as a heist…
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“This Film is Poetry”: ‘Past Lives’ Review
As “Past Lives” ends, you’re left wondering two things: What do I have to do to get Greta Lee’s cheekbones, and how the hell was this writer/director Celine Song’s first film? Song’s deft hand results in some amazing moments, along with a damn near accurate portrayal of writers and how they perceive life and love.…
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“Astonishing how much personal development you can pack into a 100-minute movie”: ‘Flora and Son’ Review
Flora is a mum just about keeping it together, but there’s always a dance tune thumping in her head. If there’s a message to ‘Flora and Son’, it’s just that: Music is in the mundane, and inspiration is the poetry the universe writes you as you navigate this cruel, ugly world. Take just the beginning…
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Black and white in Technicolor: Jazz and Racism in the modern movie musical
2018’s BlacKkKlansman closes to a hauntingly jivey rendition of Prince singing ‘Mary Don’t You Weep’, a negro spiritual, which tends to be a kinder way of saying ‘slave song’ (Lee, 2018). As with most pre-emancipation music, this was a song amongst African Americans that coded messages of resilience within religious narratives. For context, the last visuals of the…
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Diegetic, And Then Not:
A study in Bo Burnham’s effortless transgressions toward Claudia Gorbman You’re telling your friend a story. Of sorrow, of loss, your tone is mellow, your voice is raspy, and then but a whisper. You speak of the sunlight, of the noise, the smiles and the laughs, paint a picture as it were; Images come to…
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Lana Del Rey’s ‘Blue Bannisters’: Is Lana still relevant?
I was twelve years old when ‘Summertime Sadness’ was released, just as myself and everyone I knew was finding puberty and social media. A mess of badly processed Instagram posts, captioned with the lyrics to this 2010s standout, ensued. A lot of us wished Lana Del Ray the way of Carly Rae Jepsen and Rebecca…
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= review: A Sheeran album for the heart, not the charts
‘Shivers’-the second song on Ed Sheeran’s newest mathematical-operation-based series of albums, “=”, comes off as a little incongruous in tone, when you listen to it in context of the album order, as he pleads with you to in the release interview he did with Apple Music. It comes off as incongruous because it is, essentially,…
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‘The Myth of Happily Ever After’ review: Biffy Clyro’s Resurgence?
There’s really nothing to dislike about Biffy Clyro: Three Glaswegians taking a millennial emo sound and putting it in sonic packaging accessible with the generation that the likes of Evanescence and My Chemical Romance might be too….. let’s say ‘fruity’, for. It’s fun for a lot of purists to talk about Biffy Clyro being a…
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