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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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Captain America-Civil War, Review: Danger...Us? • May 05, 2016 at 06:53 PM
by Siraj Syed

Captain America-Civil War, Review: Danger...Us? Emerging from the 2006 Marvel Comic storyline, Civil War, this is a top heavy assembly, where the heroes get divided into two camps and battle it out,...

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Hydra
Ultron
Sokovia
Anthony Russo
Joe Russo
Welcome to Collinwood
you
Me and Dupree
Christopher Markus
Stephen McFeely
Mark Millar
Joe Simon
Jack Kirby
Daniel Brühl as Helmut Zemo
the Sokovian survivor baddie
is ruthless and maniacal
but needed a better written part. Where Paul Rudd
Scott Lang
Ant-Man
Spider-man
Tom Holland
Peter Parker
Chris Evans
Captain America
Robert Downey Jr.
iron man
Scarlett Johansson
black widow
Sebastian Stan
Bucky Barnes
The Winter Soldier
Anthony Mackie
Sam Wilson
The Falcon
Jeremy Renner
Clint Barton
Hawkeye
Chadwick Boseman
T'Challa
Black Panther
Wakanda
Paul Bettany
vision
William Hurt
Elizabeth Olsen
Wanda Maximoff
Scarlet Witch
Rumlow
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Mother’s Day, Review: Mom Com • Apr 29, 2016 at 05:08 AM
by Siraj Syed

Mother’s Day, Review: Mom Com Mother of two sons and a dedicated wife, philandering husband falling for sexy new babe, grieving widower raising two daughters, an aging couple who discover that they...

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Shay Mitchell
Ella Anderson
Garry Kent Maschiarelli ‘Marshall’
Tom HInes
Lily Hollander
Anya Kochoff
Matthew Walker
valentine's day
New Year's Eve
Jennifer Aniston
Jaosn Sudeikis
Julia Roberts
kate hudson
Aasif Mandvi
Jennifer Garner
Cameron Esposito
Timothy Olyphant
Jack Whitehall
Arian Neal
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10 Cloverfield Lane, Review: Hollowcaust • Apr 29, 2016 at 02:34 AM
by Siraj Syed

10 Cloverfield Lane, Review: Hollowcaust Ultra-thin story line, with some slick moments in the first half, is how one can sum up 10 Cloverfield Lane. A psychological, science fiction, holocaust,...

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Bradley Cooper
Damien Chazelle
Dan Trachtenberg
Holocaust
John Gallagher Jr.
John Goodman
Josh Campbell
mary elizabeth winstead
Matthew Stuecken
Psychological
sci-fi
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Sujata Mehta: Teaching grandma to suck eggs • Apr 27, 2016 at 07:26 AM
by Siraj Syed

Sujata Mehta: Teaching grandma to suck eggs Yesteryear film actress and popular stage performer Sujata Mehta is someone known to me from the 1980s. Her husband, Latesh Shah, is known me perhaps a...

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Latesh Shah
Superstar Jalsa
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The Huntsman-Winter’s War, Review: Ice Maiden and Sinister Sister • Apr 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM
by Siraj Syed

The Huntsman-Winter’s War, Review: Ice Maiden and Sinister Sister What? No Snow White in the title? Right. Almost no Snow White in the picture too. Many Huntsmen, one ‘The Huntsman’, two evil queen...

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Alexandra Roach
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Charlize Theron
Chris Hemsworth
Craig Mazin
Emily Blunt
Evan Daugherty
Evan Spiliotopoulos
Freya
Jessica Chastain
Nick Frost
Ravenna
Rob Brydon
Sheridan Smith
Snow White
Sope Dirisu
Thor
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