The following morons need to be shown the door, and fast. 1) Tom Cruise. For torturing us with his sissy Ethan Hunt in the positively lousy MI movies. 2) Jason Statham. Somebody shoot him, please. And the list goes on. You can go ahead and add to it. This was what I was thinking when I saw Bruce Willis [...]
“You’re Never Alone.”
So goes the caption of ‘Following’. Ah.. another Nolan movie. I was salivating with anticipation as the DVD loaded up, and I wasn’t disappointed.. no surprise there! Another taste of modern cinematic genius. This man stands out amongst the crowd, like Hitchcock did, and still does. The Hitchcock comparisons will never cease… they’re movies are [...]
Dirty Pretty Things
A unique film, with a peculiar name. This movie starts like a thriller, and starts very well. A night porter at a London hotel finds a human heart in a room’s toilet when he goes to unblock it. From this point, we see the shady activities of the hotel unfold slowly, as Okwe, the porter, [...]
almost famous
the year is 1973. we are on the road with stillwater,in the words of lester bangs (philip seymour hoffman), a mid level rock band in constant struggle with their own limitations. william miller (patrick fugit) is a 15 year old journalist who’s just made it big with rolling stone and is sent on the road [...]
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
I have seen this movie already long time back. Thanks to my inebriated mind I ended up picking up the same thing again. An account of Hunter S.Thompson’s own journey in Las Vegas amidst the great drug culture of the 60’s and early 70’s epitomized by the likes of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix et al, [...]
Guru
Villager. Visionary. Winner.
Guru was fantastic. An experience by itself. I’ve seen every Mani movie till this one, and have loved them all. Guru stood out amongst them in quite a few ways, which I found refreshing. Firstly, it wasn’t a feel-good tale, which brought with it an exciting prospect that Mani was going back to his days [...]
‘Vanaja’
I somehow stumbled upon the official website for this film, God knows how. I was obviously attracted to the title, and hence the click. Things got very interesting as the homepage loaded up, filled with stunning photographs from the movie, or ’stills’ as they’re usually called. Being the sucker I am for earthy hues and [...]
Are you happy?
When people talk too much about fate, faith and philosophy it gets irritating. A movie with 4 parallel stories with 13 sections, each section headlined by an aphorism. Ah, sounds interesting isn’t it? Well I fell for the same trap. Damn Innaritu. (Apologies).
13 conversations about one thing is about finding and defining happiness (Already, you [...]
Lucía y el sexo
I watched ‘Sex and Lucia’ yesterday, and I wanted to write this while it is still fresh in my mind. The reason is, its as abstruse as a Charlie Kaufman movie, but more artistic and emotionally intense. It succeeds where ‘Adaptation’ fails, in not losing itself in its storytelling device, and emotionally connecting to the [...]
The Machinist, Deja Vu!
As I saw the first scene, it had one super lean, lifeless loser. I said, “Oh! Ok. Could be some XYZ guy”. Then a minute later, “F**k, thats Christian Bale!”. It was more startling for me because, just a week before watching this I saw Batman Begins. Ironically Bale’s next after Machinist was Batman. Whatever [...]
