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  Somewhere in the Balkans around 1995 , a group of Aid workers seek high and low to get a rope to haul out a corpse that has been deliberately flung into a well. This forms the skeleton for  the story of A Perfect Day .While this is strictly not a foreign language film , it is the English movie debut of Spanish director , Fernando de Leon de Aronoa .                                                          While the plot sounds quite simple , it slowly meanders into various sub plots that eventually connect back to the main plot. Mambru , the protagonist , is an NGO aid worker working in a conflict zone in the Balkans. His team comprises of B - a wild middling character , Sophie - a fresher and a local interpreter Damir. They are soon joined by Katya , an assessment expert who is an ex flame of Mambru`s and Nikola , young teenag...

 A gripping crime thriller that doesn't lag and manages to maintain its pace throughout - that's "The Invisible Guest" or   " Contratiempo" , as it was originally named in Spanish , for you. The story and screenplay are quite slick,enough to inspire  remakes in Italian , Hindi and Telugu.The film comes highly recommended with a 8.1 /10 rating on IMDb. Adrian Doria , a successful businessman , is out on bail for the murder of his lover Laura in a rural hotel  Adrian`s lawyer Felix  hires a very prestigious defense attorney, Virginia Goodman ,  to fight his case. Virginia turns up at Adrian`s door one morning and informs him that the prosecutor has found a witness who will testify soon , and so Adrian has to tell his story completely and quickly.Thus , the story begins. First ...why was Adrian framed for the murder of Laura. According to Adrian , he and his lover Laura had been blackmailed into coming to the hotel with  100,000 Euros. But he is knoc...

Sometimes it is quite overwhelming when you realize how one isolated  incident could  kick start a chain of events that would eventually engulf the whole world in a diabolical embrace.When Gavrilo Princip , a Bosnian Serb ,fired upon  Archduke Franz Ferdinand , the heir presumptive of the vast Austro Hungarian empire on the 28th of June 1914 ,little did he know that he would be responsible for the greatest war on Earth - the World War I. The movie ,which is in German , begins with the first attempt on the life of the  Archduke - a botched bomb attack on the imperial convoy.Leo Pfeffer , a Hungarian Jew by ethnicity , is put in charge of the investigation. While  interrogating the bomb attack suspect , news arrives that the Archduke has been assassinated in a second attack - by the bullet from Princip`s gun. When Pfeffer starts his investigation.,there are many loose ends that don`t fit - the convoy proceeding in spite of the attack , the driver of the first car ...

                                                       This is a beautiful movie which blends two distinct strains  - a wildlife conservationist's work with Orcas ( or Killer whales as they are commonly referred to ) and  a mother`s desperate bid to provide relief to her autistic child which makes her travel thousands of miles from Spain to Argentina . Set against the backdrop of the  coastline of the vast Patagonian desert, the movie has got some breathtaking visuals which are very  different from the ones we are commonly accustomed to. The film  first introduces us to Beto , the protagonist of the movie , who is a Orca watcher living in a cabin in a remote isolated location .He is a loner and is totally dedicated to the Orcas and has developed a special relationship with them. He often goes into the sea to play and swim wi...

Video killed the Radio star......and Netflix ( well not exactly , but sort of ) killed Video  ! Netflix , which originally starte d out as a DVD rental company decided  to  add an on demand online streaming platform in 2007.  But little would they have thought that this side hustle would ultimately lead them to their pot of gold !  Today Netflix is the largest online streaming platform with more than  167 million customers worldwide and is worth more than 169 billion dollars as of 2019. The reason Netflix has become a household name today because of  a mix of factors - of which Technology & Environment play a major part. Netflix harnessed the benefits of both Big Data and Analytics to provide suggestions to viewers on which videos to watch , even when they were just a mail order DVD service ! By 2011 , just three years after going online , Netflix moved beyond web browsers to be available on devices such as Xbox 360, Blu-r...