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Probin

I am a Bangladeshi-born writer, lifelong bookaholic and devoted cinephile. I write reviews and reflections shaped by close reading, careful research and a love of philosophy. Every piece starts with one question: what is this work really trying to say, and does it succeed?

12 Years a Slave 2013: A Look Back At The Historical Significance

12 Years a slave 2013 film review

Learn about the historical background and impact of 12 Years a Slave 2013, the film that shines a light on the atrocities of slavery and the strength of the human spirit. Read our article for a deeper understanding of this important piece of film history.

Titanic 1997 Film: Uncovering the Tragic Story of the Titanic

Titanic 1997 Film

Titanic 1997 film, directed by James Cameron, is one of the most successful and iconic films in cinematic history. The … Read more

The Last Emperor 1987: Uncovering The True Story Behind The Life Of Henry Pu Yi

The Last Emperor 1987: Uncovering The True Story Behind The Life Of Henry Pu Yi

Learn about the historical context and true events that inspired the 1987 film “The Last Emperor” in this in-depth article.

Mindset Book Review 2023: From Fixed to Growth And The Power of Mindset in Success

Mindset Book Review 2023: From Fixed to Growth And The Power of Mindset in Success

Discover how shifting from a fixed to a growth mindset transforms challenges into opportunities. This 2023 review delves into the power of mindset in achieving success and personal growth.

CODA 2021: A Heartfelt Story of Music, Love, and Deaf Culture

CODA 2021: A Heartfelt Story of Music, Love, and Deaf Culture

CODA 2021 (child of deaf adults) is an American drama film directed by Sian Heder. The film tells the story … Read more

1984-Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Is Really About Who You Trust, Not Who Watches

Nineteen Eighty-Four-1984

1984, or Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell is a 1949 dystopian novel about Winston Smith, a minor Party clerk in … Read more

What Porn Does to the Brain: What Research Says

Porn Addiction and the Brain: Research on How Viewing Pornography Impacts Brain

Research on pornography and the neurological harms expected from watching explicit materials online that causes a brain change in the long run with a long-term effect on brain activities.

Bond Girls and Bonds: From Ursula Andress to Léa Seydoux Who Kept Us Bemused for 6 Decades with their Beauty and Charms

Bond girls

The Bond girls are generally of the well-defined standard of beauty, as they always possess a wonderful figure and are habitually dressed in a muscular and assertive fashion.

The Shawshank Redemption 1994: Examining the Psychological Toll of Institutionalization

The Shawshank Redemption and hope and institutionalization

The Shawshank Redemption sheds light on one’s institutionalization and the hope that one can retain even when one is to live in a hellish situation.

Cleopatra 1963 Movie Review: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, and Power of Love and Love of Power that One Must Watch Know

Cleopatra 1963 film review

Cleopatra 1963 is one of the greatest, most expensive, and most spectacular historical drama films of Hollywood that has ever … Read more

Hill cutting in Bangladesh and the heart-breaking deforestation 2023

Hill cutting in Bangladesh and unabated deforestation in Rangamati

Deforestation, forest degradation, hill cutting, and filling up of ponds, natural water reservoirs, canals and rivers have been the man-made … Read more

Impact of Pornography on Society and Its Destructive Impacts on Sociocultural Values

Impact of Pornography on Society and Its Destructive Impacts on Sociocultural Values

What happens when millions of people learn about sex not from real relationships, but from pornography? The question is bigger … Read more

Schindler’s List Movie 1993 and Colors of Religious Hatred and Bloody Ideologies

Schindler's List film 1993 review

Schindler’s List is an American historical drama film based on Australian novelist Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s Ark that depicts how … Read more

Valentine’s Day: Its History, Saint Valentine and the Red Rose

Valentine's day thought: love and pricelessness of being in love

The opinion piece narrates the deep heartfelt insight on love, emotion, and reasons to love and to be loved. Commercialization of love and its components. Significance, and meaning of various roses.

Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013): The Best Films On Philosophical Pursuit

Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013): The Best Films On Philosophical Pursuit

Before Trilogy is an American romance film sequel directed by Richard Linklater consisting of Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight … Read more

The Terminal Man Merhan Karimi Nasseri And The Terminal 2004

The Terminal 2004 movie review

The Iranian man, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who inspired the 2004 Hollywood film The Terminal and lived in the Charles de … Read more

Food Waste 2026: Why We Bin 1.05 Billion Tonnes of the Food We Love

food love and food waste and food thought of our time

Why do we throw away the one thing we think about more than anything else? Food is on our minds … Read more

All Quiet on The Western Front 1930, 1979 and 2022: repeated presentation of WWI history

All Quiet on the Western Front 1930

All Quiet on The Western Front or Im Westen nichts Neues is a 1930 anti-war film based on the 1929 … Read more

Boyhood 2014: Unexpected Film that Took 12 Years of Making

Boyhood movie 2014 review

Directed by Richard Linklater Boyhood is the story of a boy, Mason, who went through many familial obstacles to reach … Read more

In the Mood for Love 2000: where the cheated couples find love

In the Mood for Love 2000: where the cheated couples find love

In the Mood for Love is a Chinese film about a married woman and a married man who became lovers after knowing that they have been cheated on by their spouses.

Dead Poets Society 1989: Orthodoxy Is The Obstacle To Freethinking

Dead Poets Society 1989 film review

Dead Poets Society 1989 by Robin Williams is a story about an English teacher of Welton Academy and one, Neil, … Read more

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