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Siraj Syed

Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Review: Good, but not as Tarantino was, once upon a time • Aug 13, 2019 at 03:09 PM
by Siraj Syed

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Review: Good, but not as Tarantino was, once upon a time It is inspired by the murders of actress Sharon Tate and her friends at the hands of a hippy cult in 1969,...

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Rafał Zawierucha
Julia Butters
Bruce Lee
Lorenza Izzo
Mohammed Ali
Robert Richardson
Fred Raskin
Cassius Clay
Burt Reynolds
Sophia Loren
Damian Lewis
Linda Lee
Shannon Lee
Claudia Cardinale
Damon Herriman
James Landry Hébert
Scoot McNairy
quentin tarantino
Steve McQueen
Kurt Russell
Sharon Tate
Leonardo Dicaprio
brad pitt
al pacino
Emile Hirsch
Zoe Bell
Mike Moh
Bruce Dern
Bounty Law
roman polanski
Sergio Corbucci
Margaret Qualley
Wanted Dead or Alive
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Review: The spirit of Sarah Bellows, and the trauma of teenage fellows • Aug 10, 2019 at 06:07 AM
by Siraj Syed

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Review: The spirit of Sarah Bellows, and the trauma of teenage fellows Though the voice-over insists that stories hurt and stories heal, and that if they are...

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The Haunted House
The Big Toe
Me Tie Dough-ty Walker!
The Wendigo
The Red Spot
Alvin Schwartz
Marcus Dunstan
Patrick Melton
shakespeare
T.S. Eliot
Mark Twain
Joel Chandler Harris
Bennett Cerf
Jan Harold BrunvandJohn August
Daniel
Kevin Hageman
Guillermo Del Toro
André Øvredal
Kathleen Pollard
Will Carr
Elias Edraki
Marco Beltrami
Anna Drubich
Roman Osin
Patrick Larsgaard
Jane Moffat
Amanda Smith
Brandon Knox
Zoe Colletti
Michael Garza
Gabriel Rush
Austin Abrams
Dean Norris
Natalie Ganzhorn
Austin Zajur
Javier Botet
The Toe Monster
Troy James
Jangly Man
Mark Steger
Harold the Scarecrow
Pale Lady
Andrew Jackson
Jangly Man.
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Jabariya Jodi, Review: Scaring, paring and pairing • Aug 09, 2019 at 09:09 AM
by Siraj Syed

Jabariya Jodi, Review: Scaring, paring and pairing Imagine a country where dowry demands are the bane. Imagine a state in that country where the demands of families of educated and gainfully...

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Gopal Dutt
Sidharth Malhotra
Parineeti Chopra
Joel Crasto
Vishal Sinha
Ritesh Soni
Dev Rao Jadhav
Shekhar
Rashmi Virag
Channi Rakhala
Parampara Thakur
Shabbir Ahmed
Sidhharth-Garima
and Kumaar
Tanishk Bagchi
Vishal Mishra
Ashok Mastie
Ramji Gulati
Sachet Tandon
Sharad Kapoor
Sanjay Jha
Neeraj Singh
Elli Avram and Alankrita Sahai. Also in the cast are Ruslaan Mumtaz
Arfi Lamba
Yogita Rathore
Mohit Baghel
Aaryan Arora
Anupam Mishra
Ammar Taalwala
Shandilya
Soha Ali Khan
Sharmila Tagore
Neeraj Sood
Aparshakti Khurana
Javed Jaffrey
Sanjai Mishra
Sheeba Chadhha
Chandan Roy Sanyal
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Review: Adorable Dora, the explora • Aug 08, 2019 at 08:11 PM
by Siraj Syed

Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Review: Adorable Dora, the explora Dora is shown first as a six-year old, living in the forest with her explorer parents, and then as a sixteen year-old, studying in...

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Isabelle Moner
Isela Vega
Q’orianka Kilcher
James Bobin
John Debney
Inca
Lima
Peru
jungle
Germaine Franco
Javier Aguirresarobe
Mark Everson
Danny Trejo
Benicio Del Toro
Chris Gifford
Valerie Walsh
Eric Weiner
Tom Wheeler
Matthew Robinson
Nicholas Stoller
Madelyn Miranda
Malachi Barton
Michael Pena
Eva Longoria
Jeff Wahlberg
Madeleine Madden
Nicholas Coombe
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Khandaani Shafakhana, Review: Familial Clinic, Unfamiliar picnic • Aug 03, 2019 at 07:28 PM
by Siraj Syed

Khandaani Shafakhana, Review: Familial Clinic, Unfamiliar picnic A title like that would suggest a medical practice that has been in the business for generations and garnered a formidable reputation...

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Tanishk Bagchi
Rochak Kohli
Badshah
Payal Dev
Kumaar
Raj Babbar
Hoshiarpur
Mellow D.
Shabbir Ahmed
Gautam G. Sharma
Gurpreet Saini
Rishi Punjabi
Dev Rao Jadhav
Sonakshi Sinha
Annu Kapoor
Shilpi Dasgupta
Gautam Mehra
Nadira Zaheer Babbar
Arun Varma
Rajesh Sharma
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Badhsah
Suneil Shetty
Raveena Tandon
Diana Penty
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