Debopriyaa Dutta
School
St. Xavier's College Kolkata, University Of Delhi
Expertise
Body Horror, Queer Cinema, Sci-Fi
- Over the years, Debopriyaa has covered film festivals such as NYAFF, BUFF, Tribeca, Fantasia, and Berlinale. Her reviews coverage is mostly geared toward highlighting compelling indie films that tend to fly under the radar.
- She is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic.
- Debopriyaa's published chapbook, Frozen Sparks: A Rhapsodist's Tale, is available worldwide, and her poetry has also been published in literary journals like Gideon Poetry and White Noise Magazine.
Experience
Debopriyaa is a poet, entertainment writer, and film critic who writes in-depth features, reviews, and op-eds on a diverse range of topics, with a specialization in South-East Asian perspectives in cultural media. She has been writing professionally about film since 2014, while also dabbling into the realm of digital content marketing and management for a span of six years. She is immensely passionate about imbuing critical perspectives about cinema with a poetic tint and is an ardent admirer of the cosmic horror genre. Debopriyaa's additional bylines can be found at publications such as ScreenRant, 1428elm, High on Films, and Digital Mafia Talkies.
Education
Debopriyaa has a bachelor's and master's degree in English Literature and Literary Theory from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, and the University of Delhi, respectively, which allows her to bring her robust knowledge about literary film adaptations and critical theory-based analysis to the table.
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Stories By Debopriyaa Dutta
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Alex Garland's Annihilation is not easy to understand, so here are some of the sci-fi film's most confusing elements explained.
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Coherence's ending was going to be more optimistic before writer/director James Ward Byrkit decided on something more honest.
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Filming the Tokyo rampage in the original Godzilla proved to be more than a little difficult.
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John Carpenter once explained the now infamous They Live fight scene between Roddy Piper and Keith David in the sci-fi classic.
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The sci-fi world of the Stargate series kept running into problems from real-world settings.
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Batman, Tim Burton's 1989 blockbuster, features a very similar climactic confrontation as the one that appears in a classic sci-fi movie from 1927: Metropolis.
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The Japanese horror classic Ring was partially inspired by a true story about a real-life woman. Here's what we know.
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The True Detective season 1 visual effects team had to come up with a way to create a gruesome gunshot wound.
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Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling worked on Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks, considered one of the best Westerns ever made.
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Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve drew inspiration from French comic artist Philippe Druillet's The 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane for the film.
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Stephen McKinley Henderson says he took inspiration from Sherlock Holmes for his Dune character Mentat Thufir Hawat.
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Unlike John Wayne, Jeff Bridges performed True Grit's famous climactic action scene for real in the Coen Brothers' version of the Western.
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Get ready to enjoy some erotically-charged tennis from the comfort of your couch now that Challengers is hitting the home market.
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Interview With the Vampire season 2 kicks things off by staying true to Anne Rice's novel.
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David Lynch's Blue Velvet goes to some dark places. Let's dig into the strange, surreal thriller right here.
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Here's how the original Godzilla roar was created for the classic monster movie.
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The visual effects for Midsommar's incredibly disturbing Ättestupa ritual were finalized within a tight turnaround time.
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The John Wick franchise employs clever visual effects when it comes to using knives in the action series.
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The Dean Koontz sci-fi film Demon Seed underwent some meddling from the folks at MGM Studios.
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Paul Anderson included a glimpse of Arthur's conscience in a key scene in Peaky Blinders season 3, one that the episode's director Tim Mielants missed at first.
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The Fall Guy showcases tons of explosions and jaw-dropping stunts, but there was one that Ryan Gosling's children would not allow him to do.
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Chris Hemsworth holds himself partly responsible for the failure of the Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder.
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Christopher Nolan's Tenet can be pretty confusing, so we try to explain what the heck is going on right here.
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Few installments of The Twilight Zone are as terrifying or thematically layered as its 34th episode, 'The After Hours.'
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Shane Carruth's time-travel film Primer absolutely requires repeat viewings to be understood. Here are its most confusing moments explained.
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This is the lowest rated Tom Cruise movie on Rotten Tomatoes. Have you seen it?
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Dune took some inspiration from Jaws when it came to depicting those massive sandworms.