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Is Indian Cinema Finally Empowering Its Female Characters?

What is it about women and weapons that fascinate us? Why is it that the idea of an empowered woman is tied to that of her wielding a destructive object or super power? Eve...

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Festivals

Locarno Film Festival: Europe's Sundance?

While many European festivals are grappling with their identity, the Locarno Film Festival, whose 68th edition will run Aug. 5-15, has remained true to its mission of promo...

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Bollywood

Time To Change Laws Regarding Use Of Animals In Films

Draconian rules and laws related to the use of animals in Bollywood films have eventuated in a situation where producers are afraid to use animals in their films. One has c...

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Gender

Females In Leading Roles Are Dominating The Box Office.

FEMALE led films are dominating the Australian box office, accounting for more than half of the highest grossing films so far this year.
According to Motion Pictu...

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Health

Could We Use Films To Teach People About Mental Health?

The film industry is often accused of exaggerating, downplaying, or perpetuating stereotypes about mental illness. But this is far from the whole story; there have been man...

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Movies

True Review Movie - The June Boon

Thank goodness for Zoya Akhtar. After a great record with Luck By Chance andZindagi Na Milegi Dobara (or even Sheila Ki Jawaani from Read More

Top 5

Mass Media / Mass Effect

There is a scene in Inside Out where Joy and Sadness, Riley’s emotions along with Bing Bong, her imaginary friend are riding literally in her train of thought when th...

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TV

True Review TV - Oh, The Fickle Viewers!

As Dil Ki Baatein Dil Hi Jaane wraps up in mid-August, one hopes for a dignified end. The show is being unceremoniously guided out because viewers in the interiors don?t id...

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Hollywood

How Two Badass Actresses Are Making Hollywood Better For Women.

It seems like every single day brings with it another depressing statistic about women in film. Like how out of the top grossing 600 films between 2007-2013, only 1.9 perce...

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Bollywood

The All-Empowered Bollywood Woman.

The last decade in Bollywood has seen a surge in female-oriented films and characters that show women in different lights and moods. What defines a great heroine? She doesn...

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