Willam Shakespeare’s work has been a favorite with many film makers, in all the ‘woods’ – Hollywood, Bollywood, etc. One of the best adaptations of his work in Bollywood is Gulzar’s Angoor, based on ‘Comedy of Errors’. The plot is so convincingly modified to suit the Indian social setup, that it feels original. The plot, […]
Movie Review of Death Note 2: The Last Name
“Death Note 2: The Last Name” is a direct continuation of “Death Note.” The two movies are live-action adaptations are the Death Note anime and manga counterparts. Like in the first movie, there is no time jump present in Death Note 2: The Last Name as it continues from where it left off. The story […]
Relativity in Evolutionary Biology
Part 1: The Classical Theory of Relativity Classical Relativity beginsi with Galileo’s description of how a person below deck on a boat moving uniformly would not be able to tell whether the boat was in motionii. Without an outside perspective, we cannot tell if we are moving with respect to some object, usually […]
Theatrical and Anti-Theatrical Aesthetics in Romania Today
Miruna Runcan Theatrical and anti-theatrical stage aesthetics in Romania today If one wants to really understand the contemporary substance (general horizon, phenomena and/or directions) of the Romanian theatre stage today, a short historical approach is inevitable. As in many other Central and Eastern European cultural spaces, the modern Romanian theatre was dominated […]