Location
New Delhi, India
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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Thriller Movies
By Debopriyaa Dutta
This witty spy thriller, which was one of Alfred Hitchcock's early career hits, is absolutely worth seeking out, especially since it's streaming for free.
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Horror Shows
By Debopriyaa Dutta
Even after five seasons, Stranger Things has an issue that It: Welcome to Derry has already overcome over the course of its first half-dozen episodes.
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Comedy Shows
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The co-creators of the massive Netflix hit Wednesday were worried about crafting a whodunit mystery in the first season.
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Drama Movies
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The Insider may not be one of Michael Mann's flashiest movies, but it is one of his best, and one of the best films of the 1990s.
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Superhero Movies
By Debopriyaa Dutta
Patrick Stewart initially turned down one of his most famous roles. Here's how the director of X-Men convinced him to play Professor X.
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Fantasy Shows
By Debopriyaa Dutta
Years before Foundation, Lee Pace starred in a far less successful fantasy series from the brilliant writer and producer Bryan Fuller.
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Thriller Movies
By Debopriyaa Dutta
This well-received Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks collaboration dramatizes a relatively lesser-known historical event involving Cold War-era spies.
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The 2003 adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, has largely been forgotten by sci-fi fans.
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Horror Shows
By Debopriyaa Dutta
Turtles keep showing up in It: Welcome to Derry, but why? It's all connected to a mystical entity that's a major part of the larger Stephen King universe.
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Mike's sister Holly Wheeler has mostly existed in the background of Stranger Things, but in season 5, she's given a major role to play.
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Horror Movies
By Debopriyaa Dutta
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein isn't Jacob Elordi's first time in the horror genre, and you should check out his underrated horror anthology from 2020.
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Tom Hardy appeared very briefly in a forgotten war movie that featured pre-stardom turns from Daniel Craig, Ben Whishaw, and Cillian Murphy.
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The Matrix was heavily inspired by William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. Here's what the author had to say after seeing the movie.
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The most difficult episode to make for the upcoming final season of Netflix's mega-hit Stranger Things wasn't the series finale.
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Thriller Shows
By Debopriyaa Dutta
Before they created the Netflix mega-hit that is Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers worked on a TV show produced by M. Night Shyamalan.
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Superhero Movies
By Debopriyaa Dutta
An acclaimed but under-the-radar indie drama helped land Elizabeth Olsen the role of Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Horror Shows
By Debopriyaa Dutta
It: Welcome to Derry episode 5 finally brings back Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise, and he makes a characteristically cruel entrance.
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Before he curtailed his alcohol use, Colin Farrell's drinking once made filming on Minority Report so difficult that it got under his co-star Tom Cruise's skin.
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Horror Shows
By Debopriyaa Dutta
Pennywise has been hanging around Derry for centuries, but why hasn't he ever left? The latest episode of Welcome to Derry has an answer.
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Horror Movies
By Debopriyaa Dutta
Kirsten Dunst has been acting since childhood, and her breakthrough role was in a beloved vampire film based on Anne Rice's most famous novel.
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Why is hunting such a core tenet of the Yautja culture? The star of Predator: Badlands sheds some light on this backstory.
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Vince Gilligan's Pluribus displays a deeply unsettling hive mind, but could something like this actually happen to human beings?
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Vince Gilligan's Pluribus is the hottest new series of 2025, and episode 3 gives us a greater insight to the terrifying Hive Mind.
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Fantasy Shows
By Debopriyaa Dutta
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker assured George R.R. Martin the Game of Thrones spin-off won't forget what makes its source material unique.
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Horror Movies
By Debopriyaa Dutta
The vast majority of Stephen King's short stories and books have been turned into movies, but there's one outlier that still deserves to be adapted.
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Back to the Future producer Steven Spielberg was in no rush to reveal Michael J. Fox had taken over the film's lead role from Eric Stoltz.
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Fantasy Movies
By Debopriyaa Dutta
Ridley Scott's early dark fantasy movie Legend is now on Prime Video, starring Tim Curry alongside a young Tom Cruise.
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