Chruku

Chruku is a discussion focused website created for cinephiles.

Chruku is built by a small team of developers, in their free time.

❔ Why another movie site?

While sites like IMDb, rotten tomatoes and Letterboxd exist, they are not discussion friendly. Reviews often get mixed with opinion, praises and critiques. There are also many low-effort/low-quality reviews. While everyone can and should be able to post what they like, we felt that can be better organization of such posts.

There also exist sites like Reddit and Hacker News, which do online discussions justice. Although, these sites are generic, and they lack the organization of content for specific of particular domains like movies in our case.

🗂️ How does Chruku organize content?

Chruku tags every post based on post type, content type and content.

  • Post Type: Whether the post is a review, opinion, praise, critiques or just a general post.
  • Content Type: Whether the post is about a movie, TV show, Book or Other.
  • Content: Name of the movie / TV show / Book or Other.

🧐 What Post Types mean in Chruku

Chruku is a slightly opinionated webite. We have certain specific definitions for the post types present in our site. While we won't (and can't) enforce posts to fit these definitions, we encourage them to, nevertheless.

✍️ Review

  • Is free of conscious bias and opinion.
  • Is extensive and well thought-out.
  • Is not excessively positive or negative, unless the other side of the argument is also considered fairly.

💬 Critique

  • Is constuctive.
  • Pushes the creators to do even better.

👏 Praise

  • Celebrate the creative, executional and experimental aspects of the content.
  • Highlight the easy-to-miss aspects of the content.

🤔 Opinion

  • Share insights from unique and personal perspective.

📝 General

Any post that does not fit the above definitions.

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