The Naperville Public Library has long served as a cultural hub for the community, and few of its programs have cultivated a more devoted following than the Retro Reel screening series curated by Sreepathy. Now in its 23...

The Ox-Bow Incident When the law takes the law into its own hands… Slice and dice it anyway you want, but majority is just a number. Its voice has volume, but it may not necessarily be valid. It has might, but it may not...

Munich Revenge tastes sweetest, till we realize that we are inevitably diabetic… As individuals, as groups, or as nations, the urge to respond with force to an act of evil is very real and natural. Let’s not be naïve, or...

Real to Reel to Real Life (Part 2 of 2) Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, ( Now that the name of the movie is out of the bag, let me start Part 2 with the results of the guessing game from Part 1. Ma...

Real to Reel to Real Life (Part 1 of 2) Art mirrors life, but when life portends art… To twist things a bit, let me tell you the story about a movie before I tell you the story of *the movie. What follows though, is a tr...

A r g o Here’s the kind of movie that makes movie-watching worth its while. “Based on a true story.” That ubiquitous line from many a movie’s beginning never sounded truer or more authentic than from Argo (2012). If you...

Minority Report Is a crime committed before it’s committed if you stop it before it’s committed? A paradoxical, circular question like that sends your brain into a tizzy, doesn’t it? But then, what human conundrum doesn’...

12 Angry Men “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” The man who said that, Abraham Lincoln, knew a thing or two about all three – adversity, character, and power....

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Retro Reel is a column about movies, but not about the latest box-office releases. There will be aspects of review, but the column is intended more as a recommendation of good movies of different genres, with the sense o...

Retro Reel is a column about movies, but not about the latest box-office releases. There will be aspects of review, but the column is intended more as a recommendation of good movies of different genres, with the sense o...

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