January 2014 - A Potpourri of Vestiges

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We Have a Pope (2011): Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti's interesting insight into the world of papacy

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Jugu Abraham Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews We Have a Pope (2011) - Origi...

The 6 Best Underground Film Festivals in the World to Visit in 2014

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World's Most Exciting Underground Film Festivals A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Image courtesy of FrameAngel / FreeDigitalPhot...

Pacific Rim (2013): Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi extravaganza

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A heady cocktail of style and substance A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

86th Annual Academy Awards: Winner Predicions

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Editor's Verdict for the 2014 Oscars A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature The Following list of n ominees, spread across 24 categor...

Dedh Ishqiya (2014): Indian filmmaker Abhishek Chaubey's second chapter in "Babban-Khalujan" saga

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A tribute to the lifestyles of the Nawabs of Awadh A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic ...

12 Years a Slave (2013): Steve McQueen's treatise on despair, solitude, lust and sadomasochism

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A harrowing film about racism and slavery A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

The Inheritors (The Heirs) (2013) (TV Series): A Spotlight

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Pratikshya Mishra C oming from the writers of ‘Secret Garden’, ‘The Heirs’ is an ambitious ve...

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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.