Image Source (Quick trigger warning, this post will discuss the deaths of several real life children.) People love to talk about cursed films. The idea that some form of media is mystical and breaks everything it touches or everyone who works on it. The Exorcist is probably the most famous example of the phenomenon, with its production being famously filled with injuries and pain. The truth of these "cursed" films is that most of the time it is a combination of little care for performers or safety that results in this pain. There is no mystical reason behind it, just cut corners leading to tragedy. What happened during the production of The Twilight Zone: The Movie is one of the most heartbreaking examples of this. John Landis is most known for such feats as The Blues Brothers , An American Werewolf in London , and having a sex offender child but he should be most known for that time he ended up killing children with unsafe wo...
Image Source If I were to ask you what Bollywood is, how would you define it? It's not a genre, though there are some common themes in these films, and it is not really a film movement either. The types of movies made are simply too varied to be boiled down into one idea. It is after all a term for all the big budget movies from a country of over a billion people. There's going to be a lot of variance. But what if you took all of that variance, everything you could expect or even dream of from a Bollywood film, and put it in one? You would probably get something like RRR (2022). A four hour masterpiece that is truly something to behold. RRR is kind of impossible to succinctly describe. It's got songs, action, a dance routine, the best bromance in cinema, kind of everything. In a weird way I like to compare RRR to Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. The two films came out in the same year and both feel like every genre being blasted into yo...
