Surya Gupta

Disclaimer: I am a bit sick and out of it while writing this, so it will be more fun and interesting compared to the rest of my blogs Okay, I lied, it's kinda about hit biopic Blackberry (2023) still from rogerebert.com The Blackberry (the technology) is kinda a relic of a time I have no concept of. I was born six months before the iPhone was announced, and it's first release in June 2007 was a month before my first birthday. I've basically never known a world without the iPhone bar those...

Screenshot of my full Letterboxd List of new releases I saw last year. Last year I saw 21 newly released films, both in theaters and on streaming. This year I saw 2 films that technically released last year but got stuck in International Distribution Purgatory but I am still counting them because they are very good. That is 23 films total, which is a lot, so I am going to do my 5 highest, and 5 lowest of the list, alternating between good and bad. I'd also going to have a little bit about...

I've mentioned it a handful of times in previous blogs, but my most looked forward to film of 2025 was Magellan by Filipino Slow-Cinema director Lav Diaz. Still from the film Magellan (2025) credit: Janus Films Press Release Magellan follows the life of titular figure Ferdinand Magellan and his hand in the colonization of the Philippines, Canvasing a decade of Magellan's life, from the capture of Malacca in 1511 to his death in 1521, this film captures the slow march of time in a...