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Romantic Gifts To Show You Care

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  We all buy gifts for our spouses. These are often gifts given on holidays or special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, or Christmas. Sometimes we even give gifts to say that we are sorry after an argument. But why not give a gift just because? The best gifts given in a relationship are gifts that simply let your spouse know that you are thinking of them, appreciate them, and love them. These gifts are meaningful to the person who receives them, and they work because they are chosen with a great deal of thought, care and without expectations of reciprocation. This can be accomplished simply and with little effort. Whenever you are out shopping alone, look for things you think he or she would love to have or would appreciate. Pay attention when you are out with him or her and notice anything that catches their eyes. Then come back later and buy it for them as a surprise! They will be truly touched. Visit your spouse’s favorite stores to find just what they would like. Or go t

Breaking News In Yuba County movie review

Breaking News In Yuba County movie review: Allison Janney, Mila Kunis' crime satire is a chaos of mediocrity Breaking News In Yuba County ought to have been much more assured in treatment to do justice to its talented cast, where sharper humour and cutting-edge suspense would have helped To quote a cliché, the best intentions are lost if the execution goes bust. Breaking News In Yuba County flaunts a cracker of an idea and an impressive cast, but the crime comedy satire never quite manages to scale an engaging high. Rather, the effort is lost amidst a chaos of mediocrity. Director Tate Taylor’s film has the incredible Allison Janney at the centre of its plot. She plays Sue Buttons, a middle-aged woman in smalltown United States who is largely ignored at home and outside. Life hits a new low for Sue on her birthday when she catches her banker husband Karl (Matthew Modine) in the act, in bed with another woman at a motel. The twist in Sue’s tale comes by chance with Karl dying of a h

When food shows on have become content

 When food shows on have become content, the unassuming simplicity of Somebody Feed Phill got me hooked In an era, where simplicity has been traded for excesses, Somebody Feed Phil reminds us about getting the basics right. During the 25 years that I’ve been receptive to [and later obsessed with] films, I’ve picked up on some of the most inane things on screen. How Rahul Bose elegantly rolls his roti before tearing one end of it in Dil Dhadakne Do to suggest his royal lineage, or the way Abhishek Bachchan rips up a paratha, and smothers it with palak paneer in one of his least known films Shararat to underline his devil-may-care attitude. The cute gadget in Spy Kids, where one only needs to insert tokens into a microwave-like machine, close the door, and in the span of a second, they’re served Happy Meals, replete with crispy looking fries. Sometimes, I also reminisce about the time Farida Jalal swooped into Shah Rukh Khan’s kitchen in Duplicate, and ‘corrected’ the Japanese dishes by

Sundance Film Festival 2022

Sundance Film Festival 2022 brings in renewed hopes for movies, both that challenge and comfort The best thing about Sundance Film Festival is that I do not have to choose. The 2022 line-up includes movies that reflect the miserable realities of contemporary life or movies that conjure alternative realities. There was a time not so long ago when the Sundance Film Festival was in danger of being overwhelmed by swag, hype, and other extra-cinematic preoccupations. One year, if I remember right, there were stickers all over its Park City, Utah, home reminding those of us in attendance to “focus on films” rather than parties, celebrity sightings, industry buzz, and tabloid gossip. That is not much of a problem now. For the second year in a row, Sundance is not in Park City at all. Instead of traipsing up and down Main Street or piling into shuttle buses, the audience is exactly where it has been for most of the past two years: at home, in front of a screen, scrolling through a menu in sear

Human Convoluted medical

 Human review: Convoluted medical thriller show that trips over its own excesses Shefali Shah would make for a terrific supervillain. Just not this time The prospect of watching a new Shefali Shah performance is always an exciting one. The new series Human, streaming on DisneyPlusHotstar, features the maddeningly expressive actor as Dr Gauri Nath - a celebrity surgeon renowned for her brilliance and benevolence, but with a dark side that’s hidden from most. More on the character and the actor later. This show displays what seems to be a persistent problem with so many Hindi OTT shows, particularly those made by filmmakers moving from the big screen to the small screen. In the former, the excuse of packing in a little extra seems relatively valid, considering many diverse people with different tastes are experiencing it together. However, for stuff that’s meant to be streamed in the comfort of one’s home, you’d think creators would, by now, be wise to the fact that you’re always caterin

Was it Vallé or Vallée? Slowly but surely

With Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, Jean-Marc Vallee subtly renovated our palette of pain in the years leading up to this pandemic. It explains why, on learning of his demise, it felt like someone had stalled my sequence of healing. Where were you when you heard? I was, not for the first time, watching a 75-year-old Leonard Cohen conclude his London concert with 'Take This Waltz.' When a friend’s text displayed an article about Jean-Marc Vallée’s death, I paused the YouTube video. Cohen’s eyes were closed, in artful prayer. I frantically googled for confirmation. Maybe it was fake news. Was it Vallé or Vallée? Slowly but surely, celebrity tweets trickled in. A photograph of 58-year-old Vallée emerged on my timeline, a sobering reminder that this was the first photograph of his I had ever come across. Most of us are so used to accepting the vision of those behind the camera that we often let their names evoke an image of how they physically look. I had Vallée down for a curl