Naanga azhudhutom, neengalum azhudhuteengala?
High!
Humans have always been better at expressing ideas. Better than say, most contemporary animals. And some humans have toiled to express them so good that they turn out to be artists. Today sitting in the theater, I could sense three. Not sense. More like they pounded it together, put it on a spoon, heated it [...]
Shoot ‘Em Up
Shoot ‘Em Up [...]
Sunshine
I like Danny Boyle. He did a great job with Trainspotting, which was humorous while being an uncomprimising story about addiction. I specifically remember the scene where Ewan McGregor is on the bed, dealing with withdrawal hallucinations, when he starts imagining his dead baby crawling on the room’s walls. Scary as hell. He again stood [...]
Frantic. Frenzy. Breathless. Bourne Ultimatum.
Free falling objects tend to have pitch, yaw, roll. Bourne Ultimatum is one such piece of film with its pictures moving in all three dimensions at such breathless speeds that they might break free out of the projector running off in a thousand directions. Here’s when they almost did –
When Bourne swerves left on the [...]
“He just drove off the roof!”
The first bit of dialogue, just dialogue without an action sequence, is at an hour and ten minutes into the movie. I know cos I actually looked down at my watch and smiled.
2007 is the year of the action movie. After John McLane and Optimus Prime, I would like to introduce you to the King, [...]
Transformers
What a ride! WHAT A RUSH! I take back everything I’ve ever said about Michael Bay. When it comes to thinking big and making it bigger, no one does it like he does. Period.
Transformers is terrific. I’m actually too excited to type here, and definitely in no condition to say anything coherent. This movie puts [...]
Traffic
© USA Films
Another strong argument for Steven Soderbergh to be taken seriously, Traffic is an engaging movie about ‘the war on drugs’ in the US. Soderbergh uses the multiple-smaller threads-making-a-bigger-canvas approach, and does it with élan in this docu-drama. The screenplay is gripping, and the camera work is investigative news-story style, which I thought was [...]
Y tu mamá también
© 2002 – IFC Films – All rights reserved
Brilliant.
Cinema that lives, that breathes, that feels. It makes you laugh along, travel along, changes moods with you, seduces you. It is a discovery, a discovery of Mexico, a discovery of Luisa, Julio and Tenoch. You and I, along with them, discover what a joy it is [...]
Live Free or Die Hard
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 [...]
