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Wolfman
Wolfman marks the first film release of 2025 and the first film from this year that I got to see. Not only was it a pretty good horror film but it was a textbook perfect metaphor for generational trauma. The very small cast did a great job, and it was an excellent way to kick off the year. 2025 is going to be full of incredible movies just like the last few years have been. But hopefully this film is an indication that horror movies are about to improve, cause last year was a little rough.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
The Simpsons’ Shocking Response to LA Wildfire Ignites Viral Buzz
The Simpsons, the iconic animated family that has entertained audiences for decades, is no stranger to timely satire and cultural commentary. Yet, their latest reaction to the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire has left fans and critics alike in shock, sparking heated discussions and going viral across social media platforms.
By mureed hussain2 years ago in Geeks
Black Warrant Ending Explained: What’s Next After Charles’ Escape?
You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character. —Unknown The bikini killer Charles Sobhraj's escape from Tihar Jail was very dramatic, but in this article, I will tell you how he escaped and will discuss the ending of Season 1. Hello everyone. So let's talk about the ending of Black Warrant and reveal some secrets for which stay connected with us till the end. Before explaining the ending, let's briefly know what happened in Season One of Black Warrant. This story is of 1981 where a man named Sunil Kumar Gupta gives an interview for the position of jailer in Tihar Jail and also gets selected. On the first day in jail, Sunil meets Charles Sobhraj. On seeing Charles at first sight, Sunil thinks that he is a big officer, but later, a policeman tells Sunil about Charles' reality and his truth. On the same day, Sunil is introduced to the prisoners and is also told about Tihar jail, where two prisoners have a disagreement, and a prisoner named Neela attacks another prisoner with a knife. Seeing this, Sunil gets scared. Then DSP Tomar tells Sunil and the other two new recruits that they will have to work as a team. After this, DSP tells Sunil that he will have to maintain his respect in jail and solve the case of who killed the snake. Now Sunil is told that there are three gangs in this jail: Tyagi gang, which is the biggest gang, and their gang leader is Sunny Tyagi. The Tyagi gang does the business of drugs in jail. The biggest enemy of Tyagis is the Haddis gang, whose gang leader is Anil Rana, who does the business of liquor. The last or third gang is the Sardar gang, whose gang leader is Gurtej Singh. Charles Sobhraj is not a member of any of these gangs but he lives comfortably and in great luxury in the jail by blackmailing the jail officers. One day Sunil goes to Charles and asks for his help to prove that Sarju killed the snake and not Neela. Now, one day, the news of how Sobhraj is living in luxury in Tihar Jail gets published in the paper, and that very night, the Home Minister suddenly raids the Tihar Jail, and Sobhraj is shifted to a normal jail. Then, a prisoner is found drunk, and the Home Minister initiates an inquiry against the jailor, and Sunil Bhaiya gets suspended. After this, the story moves forward, and we are shown some interesting cases that are inspired by real-life cases. Coming to the last episode, the year is now 1984 and Indira Gandhi is assassinated. Now, a lot of Punjabis are beaten in Tihar Jail, which some officers do not like at all, including Sunil, Mangat, and Dahiya Dahiya; they even tell DSP Tomar, sir, this is not right, but the DSP says do what I have told you to do. All the Sikh policemen are being internally transferred and ASP Mangat is also transferred. Sarju, a man from the Tyagi gang, kills Neela and the entire jail becomes unrestricted. Sarju is caught and Vipin beats him up to extract the truth. Sunil now goes to meet Mangat and tells him that he talked to his mother, meaning Sunil talked to Mangat's mother and found out that Mangat's younger brother Jassi is missing because of this politics and is very sad. The same night, Vipin takes some men to the jail and digs to find weapons and Sunil is also there. Then, the men of the Tyagi gang attack Vipin and Sunil from behind and beat them badly. Both are hospitalized. DSP Tomar comes to deal with Sunny Tyagi to maintain peace in Tihar but Sunny Tyagi rejects this proposal. Tomar then imposes a lockdown on the entire jail. Sunil now goes to Charles and deals with him. Charles tells Sunil that he is getting bored here because of this lockdown, his birthday is coming, and he wants to celebrate it. On the other side, DSP Tomar meets Anil Rana and deals with him. When Sunny Tyagi comes to know about this, he sends his goons outside the jail to threaten Tomar and his daughter. Sunil now goes to Vipin and both of them agree to work together. Both of them then go to the SP office and bring Mangat back to duty. Now they make a plan on how to fight these Tyagis together. Mangat brings Sardars' gang on his side and says that nobody will say anything to Haddis gang men and they can do whatever they want with Tyagis, giving them full freedom. The next plan is that some men of the Tyagi gang should be transferred to another jail, and the remaining few should be bought, for which they collect money from B-class prisoners as maintenance. After this, one man from the Tyagi gang tells where the weapons are buried; when Mangat lures him into thinking that if he tells, then he will get more money than he thought, and in this way, all the weapons are recovered. Now, overnight, Tyagi gang leader Sunny Tyagi is transferred to another jail, and along with him, some other people are also transferred to the jail. Then all the prisoners are redistributed into different cells and then all the work is done properly. Now Sunil calls Priya and apologizes but she asks for a break from the relationship. Vipin has a daughter and Mangat also talks to his mother after a long time. Everything becomes fine again and there is peace in Tihar. But one morning, all the policemen of Tihar are lying unconscious, and Charles escapes from the jail. Remember when Sunil came to ask for help from Charles, and he offered him a deal that he would get permission for him to meet his friend? In return, Charles would have to help Sunil in Tyagis's case? But this is where Charles shows his cleverness; he says that his birthday is near, and he wants the whole jail to celebrate his birthday with him. He further said that he wanted sweets to be brought for all the policemen and prisoners on his birthday. Now, his strange demand is also accepted, but this is where his real trick begins. Charles mixes drugs in all those sweets, and as soon as everyone eats those sweets, they all fall unconscious. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Charles escapes from jail. In history, Charles Sobhraj did the same, and due to this cleverness, he escaped from jail, but in real life, Charles Sobhraj's escape did not last for long; exactly 22 days later, he was arrested again from a hotel in Goa. Like every story related to him, this arrest of his was also no less than a thriller film. Police caught Charles when he was preparing for his next plan and he was immediately brought back to Tihar Jail. In Season 2 of Black Warrant we will get to see the same thrilling story of Charles' escape, his arrest and his return to Tihar jail. Not only this, we will get a glimpse of many other shocking real cases inside Tihar Jail. This next season will show us how gangs work inside Tihar Jail and how these gangs influence the outside world even while staying inside the jail. Now, I guess that we may also get to see in the future how the leader of the Bishnoi gang, Lawrence Bishnoi, is operating in the outside world from inside Tihar Jail. Currently, this story is from the year 1986, and it will take some time for us to reach the 2010s, but if we talk about the main lead of the story, Sunil Kumar Gupta, then it will be very interesting to see how his life will take a turn. After all these things, his promotion seems certain. Talking about his love life, we will see here whether Priya will come back into his life or not. But as far as I think, Priya will come back in his life in the upcoming season and we may get to see their marriage as well. On the other hand, Vipin Dahiya's story is going well as a side character and happiness has returned in Mangat's story as well. So in the next season, we will see some great moments of these three couples. Talking about DSP Tomar, I think that in the next season, he may get transferred, and Sunil may be made a DSP, or the DSP may get promoted as an SP as well. Well, now that DSP Tomar is on the right track, he will definitely help Sunil and his friends. So these were all my theories, but you must tell me your theories in the comment section. So that's all for today. Thanks for staying with me till here. If you have read till here, then it means you are my brother. Now look, I am giving everything for free, I am asking for just one thing - that Subscribe button! Press it lovingly, press it hard or press it in such a way that even Vocal. Media says - 'Brother, this guy is really serious! You just need to press it!' 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By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
David Lynch: The Filmmaker Who Broke All the Rules and Won
David Lynch isn’t just a filmmaker—he’s a world-builder, a dream-weaver, and a master of the subconscious. His work doesn’t simply entertain; it unsettles, provokes, and lingers in the mind long after the credits roll. Few directors have managed to create an artistic language so distinct, where the bizarre feels normal, the beautiful feels sinister, and the mundane feels extraordinary.
By Rahul Rawat2 years ago in Geeks
MaXXXine
As someone who has not seen X, but did see (and love) Pearl I was excited to see MaXXXine. I thought Mia Goth was absolutely robbed in awards season for Pearl, it was truly one of my favorite horror movies that I have ever seen. I expect that X and MaXXXine can’t be that different in quality (she said hopefully). It has taken me all year to get to something that was released in July, but I fell way behind on movies so here we go.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
My Spy: The Eternal City
Dave Bautista is undeniably the best wrestler turned actor. He is genuinely incredible, that said he is in a deep danger of being typecast with the other wrestler/actors as an action star. Not that he isn’t good at it, he most certainly is. But he was the best part of Knock On The Cabin and he has an amazing range so I would love to see him do more softer things. All that out of the way he did get a sequel for My Spy which actually seems to balance the two things pretty well. So we are watching My Spy: The Eternal City.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Public Disorder Netflix Review: Should You Watch This Italian Series?
So recently an Italian web series came on the Netflix platform called Public Disorder, I have watched this series and I don't have much to tell, so in case you have seen its trailer or heard its name and are interested to know whether it is right to spend time on it or not, then I request you to stay tuned till the end. Anyway, to finish watching this series, you have to go through only six episodes whose length is going to be around 40 to 50 minutes. This series is also available in Hindi version and as Netflix has done, it is very strong, like strong tea. You can watch it with your family but if you notice small things then yes, you will get to see one or two kiss scenes or you may hear some abusive language in it so adjust it according to yourself, it is okay for some families and for some families, they don't even watch a normal kiss scene, so adjust it according to yourself. Well, if we talk about the story, then to be honest about its writing or the theme, i.e. the story on paper, I cannot deny that yes, the concept of the series was good where you get to see the story of that group of police department which stops the protesting people and one day a riot takes place regarding this group, in which some things go wrong, after which investigation starts on that group, so what has happened and why did the characters get trapped, to know all this you will have to watch this series.
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
David Lynch (January 20, 1946 - January 16, 2025)
“WHAT?” That was my reaction to the death of David Keith Lynch. I was at home on the one real day off I had this week between recovering from a very bad cold, teaching, prepping and cleaning up after the vacation that was time spent with my family. I was about to take the laundry out of the washer when I saw the message on Facebook that he had died and all I could think to say (or at least type) was one loud blurt from the heart. And it seems appropriate now that the person who put that notice up happened to be one of my former media students. She seemed to understand his importance not just to me, but to a host of us suburban weirdos who could see what was bubbling under the surface of all that brown and grey.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Geeks
The Evolution Of The Peeping Tom
The concept of the Peeping Tom archetype, a prevalent motif in folklore and cinema for decades, has not only entertained but also reflected and influenced societal norms. But he wasn't always the disgusting character we know and hate today. So what happened to Tom, and why did our perception of the once humorous character change over time? Let's find out.
By Chelsea Rose2 years ago in Geeks
