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The Usual Suspects (1995): Bryan Singer's nerve-jangling crime thriller with an unforgettable performance from Kevin Spacey

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The film that made Kevin Spacey a superstar A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Priyanka G Featured in IMDb Critic Review...

Barefoot to Goa (2013): Praveen Morchhale's indie film about moribund human bonds and decaying moral values

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A social commentary on the great rural-urban divide in India A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb C...

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013): Second Installment in J. J. Abrams Star Trek Reboot

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Boldly goes where no Trekkie movie has gone before A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Jairam Mohan Featured in IMDb Critic...

Silver Linings Playbook (2012): David O. Russell's feel-good film featuring an Oscar-winning performance from Jennifer Lawrence

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More than just any other rom-com A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Jairam Mohan Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews S...

The Vicious Kind (2008): Lee Toland Krieger's small-time indie heightened by a strong script and cast

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Dan O'Neill Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews The Vicious Kind (2008) - By L...

School 2013 (2012) (TV Series): An emotional, coming-of-age journey of teenagers enriched with Korean cuteness and sensitivities

Murtaza Ali Khan 12:36:00 PM 4 Comments Edit

A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Pratikshya Mishra S chool 2013 or Let’s go to school is essentially about life at schoo...

Movie Badasses: 3 memorable super villains of recent times

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Jairam Mohan I have always been a superhero buff right from a young age when my dad bought...

For Cinema With Love: Invitation for Guest Articles

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I hereby entreat my fellow bloggers/writers to contribute guest articles to my movie blogsite: "A Potpourri of Vestiges". Due ...

Pulp Fiction (1994): Quentin Tarantino's brash, homage-laden depiction of Americana

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The Quintessential Tarantinoesque extravaganza A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Jade Waddy Featured in IMDb Critic Review...

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Murtaza Ali Khan is an independent film critic / journalist based out of New Delhi, India. He has been writing on cinema for over seven years. He runs the award-winning entertainment blog A Potpourri of Vestiges. He is also the Films Editor at the New York City-based publication Cafe Dissensus and regularly contributes to The Hindu, The Sunday Guardian, DailyO, and National Herald. He was previously a columnist at Huff Post. He has also contributed to online publications like Newslaundry, The Quint, Dear Cinema, Desimartini and Jamuura Blog. He is also on the guest panel for live discussions on the television news channel NewsX.

His education spans science, technology, mass communication, and management. But cinema remains his first love. His all-time favorite movie-makers are Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Luis Bunuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. He can be reached at murtaza@apotpourriofvestiges.com / murtaza.jmi@gmail.com. He tweets @apotofvestiges.