Spielberg has done it again! He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler’s List. In fact, this movie nabbed 7 Oscars and 3 Golden Globe Awards.  I watched in awe as he created a film that not only realistically depicted the events involving the Jews but also delivered a vivid picture of the brutal […]

Having watched Gandhi, I have gained a better insight to the history of India’s independence as well as I got to know more about Gandhi. For instance, I never knew he was a qualified lawyer. I only knew him as the man in the white loincloth. To me, his principles in life are reflected in […]

Departures tell the story of an undertaker whose job is to prepare the dead for encoffinment. What intrigued me was that the filmmakers took a bold step in picking a rather distinctive subject for the movie; enconffinment. Despite doing so, this movie won 16 awards including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at […]