Film Fugitives

Be it silver screen or animated series adaptation, the “Dungeons and Dragons” franchise has never missed a chance to fully utilize the core essence of high fantasy storytelling. Amazon Prime’s “The Legend of Vox Machina,” inspired by the first campaign of “Critical Role”, is no exception in this regard. After successfully delivering three great seasons, the series went on a ...

The third and final instalment of Italian graphic novelist Michele Rech aka Zerocalcare’s autobiographical animated fantasy, titled “My Two Cents” aka “Due Spicci”, pushes the scope of storytelling by bringing both vivid imagination and internal conflict which meanders through Zero’s mindscape, alive. The deeply introspective yet at times chaotically outlandish narrative imp...

The sixth episode of Netflix’s “Tagusari Bros.” starts with a subtle scene in the park where Makoto gets brutally trolled by some kids for playing a silly game on his phone. Interestingly, he catches a thief in the act and helps the police arrest the guy; however, his brother, Minoru, makes fun of him. As the friendly banter between two brothers continues, they remember that...

Borderline is a 12-minute long short film where a Norwegian customs officer finds a Finnish fisherman trespassing into international waters at the Three-Country Cairn. The customs officer tries to tell the fisherman that he’s not allowed to fish there but due to their language divide, they are unable to communicate, thereby leading to loads of confusion. A Swedish w...

There are times when reality forces us to take some of life’s hardest decisions. In Netflix’s “Kara,” a thief decides to give up his ways and live a normal life, but fate forces him to walk his old path, again. As he struggles with the crisis, he almost loses his hope a couple of times, but he never gives up. I loved how Dhanush portrayed the emotions of the protagonist in t...