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Festival de Cannes 2014: Award Winners

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List of Winners at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival A Potpourri of Vestiges Special

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - Bryan Singer's star-studded Summer Blockbuster that marks his emphatic return to the "X-Men" franchise

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Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy steal away the thunder A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Crit...

Faith (2012) (TV Series): A swashbuckling television drama with a unique blend of medical science, history, mythology and Korean folklore

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Pratikshya Mishra T he story starts in old Goreyo. A young new king is escorted from Yuan—t...

Cinema, Casino, and the Emergence of Online Gaming Industry

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A Still from Casino Royale (2006) C inema and casino have a lot in common. First and foremost, bot...

A Vote of Thanks: A Potpourri of Vestiges featured among Top 5 Entertainment Blogs in India

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Writing can be both cathartic and edifying for an individual. It basically starts off as an utterly...

A Counterpoint to the Auteur Theory

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Jyoti Prakash Mallick Image courtesy of English 1B: Cinerama / sjsu-eng1b-sum13.blogspot.in/ ...

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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.