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  • Ticket Stub: Birdman

    Ticket Stub: Birdman

    Ticket Stub: Birdman Stars: 4 Story: An actor playing a superhero, becomes one! tongue emoticon Talent to watch out for: Practically everybody… The Juicy Bit: The movie is smart, imaginative, artistically shot, idiosyncratic, funny as hell, anti-mushy yet touching Bitter Lemon: It is lemonade, all the way through! Reason to watch: It won the Oscar Read more

  • Ticket Stub- Jupiter Ascending

    Ticket Stub- Jupiter Ascending

    Ticket Stub: Jupiter Ascending Stars: 3 Story: A royal intrigue, minor skirmishes in space, a girl falling for her savior Talent to watch out for: Eddie Redmayne (the husky whispers along with the occasional staccato outbursts) The Juicy Bit: The heady cocktail of superb visuals and spectacular vistas, amazing weaponry, and gripping chases and fight Read more

  • Movie Review: Nebraska

    For quite some time, I felt that reviewing a movie isn’t my cup of tea. I am not an expert on what public likes, or how many types of acting are there, cinematography or technical direction. I like what I like. But this movie made me write this. I am a huge fan of the Read more

  • In Defense of Spiderman

    Ironman will scintillate you, you would always respect Nolan’s Batman, you would be awestruck by Superman’s near omnipotence, Hulk’s brute force will bring you sheer pleasure, Captain America would sing America’s blues, Shaktimaan would instruct you on the art of living, Wolverine would maul his way to get your attention (Other Superheroes weren’t considered because Read more

  • Argo / Movie Review

      The whispered undertone might outweigh the roaring cacophony! And indeed, the sights and the sounds of ‘Argo’ nudges its way into the skin, seeping through the upper layer, clawing its way into the veins, flowing along with the blood into the heart and finally gushing towards the brain……!! It is one of the most Read more

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    Not that I have been known to admire the critical pieces of work in Hollywood/Bollywood (I would have aliens and zombies any day); I did love the cinematic motif called the ‘The Shawshank Redemption’. Much has been already written about the movie and most of it would definitely have been more effusive, more spirited, more Read more

  • The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey / Movie Review

      You may ask, why is that I like every movie I watch? Is it because someone is paying me to write good reviews? No sir, I am a humble blogger with no strings attached. I only review those movies that I actually like. And I do read a critic’s take on the film, but Read more

  • Life of Pi / Movie Review

    People sometimes are pretentious. Even if they know that they wouldn’t like a particular type of film, they barge in the theatres with their oh-I-am-cool-as-I-am-Sarcastic attitude, moan endlessly ‘how boring the movie is!’ end up making clichéd, snide remarks about the protagonist and his leading lady followed by raucous laughter. If you are that kind Read more

  • Skyfall

    Fuck Jason Bourne. Fuck the Dark Knight. How could be anyone naïve enough to compare them with this guy? Read more

  • Barfi!

      ‘Picture shuru, huyi picture shuru………………’ Even before the film started, ‘Barfi!’ gave a reason to smile. In the divine settings of Darjeeling, in its narrow streets and alleyways, the ubiquitous rail lines circuiting all over the beautiful hill station and in the hearts of the simple minded residents (lucky them!), this movie had a Read more

  • A Study in Pink

      Speaking of the inspired and the inspiring… ‘A study in Pink’ is a remarkable and riveting episode of ‘Sherlock’, bundled with loads of drama, wry humor and some very excellent performances. Sherlock Holmes– the name conjures up images of the quite eccentrically brilliant detective thinking deeply in the haze of the cigarette smoke, stringing Read more

  • The Dark Knight Rises

    A few days ago, this is what I said ,“Markets plummet, countries come crashing down, jobs decrease, but ‘the dark knight rises’, always…..” After watching the movie, I believe that the Dark Knight NEVER EVER disappoints, he always lives upto his image. May His Soul Rest in Peace, but this movie didn’t need a Heath Read more

  • Abraham Lincoln- Vampire Hunter

    “A man only drinks too much, if he either has to kiss a girl or kill a man………What are you going to do, young man?” And so begins the story. I will tell you in Caps Lock, “I DON’T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE MOVIE, OR WHAT YOUR PERCIEVED OPINION IS………….WHAT I Read more

  • The Amazing Spiderman

    The Wall-Crawler is back!!!!!! The city-slicker, the geeky-bookworm, the ultimate smartass -the Brand New Spiderman is everything that you want him to be… Maybe, the world is eagerly waiting for the release of The Dark Knight Rises, and they should be because both The Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were wonderful movies. You may Read more

  • I am Kalam

      From a rustic Rajasthani setting emerges a movie that would have, I presume, sent reverberations across the country. If not the whole nation, at least across the hearts of a bunch of people who have watched ‘I am Kalam.’ This movie indeed is a wondrous effort by the director Nila Madhab Panda. This movie Read more

  • Prometheus

    Isaac Asimov might be turning in his grave right now!!!!!!!! How could any robot not follow the three laws! But of course in Prometheus we have an android by the name David who is wily and shrewd, cold and unconscionable; it seems that he has a heart of his own when he wishes his creator Read more

  • Men In Black 3

    Maybe it does not have the best action sequences in the world, nor possibly a great story line, but that doesn’t mean that Men In Black 3 isn’t worth watching. Men In Black 3 packs a delightful punch down the pleasure nerve, with quite a few rib-tickling movements and weirdo aliens that are the movie Read more

  • Avengers

    I AM HULK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Powerhouse, the boiling bed, the grizzly, machismo and the Ultimate hammer-head, he knows how to pump up your very source of adrenaline. I regret that I watched this movie late- but it was due to my exams that I wasn’t able to do so. But if you still haven’t seen it Read more

  • Holes

    It took me a ‘Book of Books’ to know its worth. It’s on the number 83 in the BBC Big Read Hundred Favourite books. But I am not talking about the book written by Louis Sachar, I haven’t read it, yet. What I am talking about is the movie adaptation of ‘Holes’- I say its Read more

  • The Darkest Hour

    I think I have repeated this more than often. If you give me a good alien movie, I would slaver on it in no time. ‘The Darkest Hour’ is indeed a treat for me, and after a long time (the last good alien invasion movie was- Battle L.A.), did I get to see such a Read more

  • Don 2

    Forget everything I ever said about Mission Impossible, I can recommend you a movie even better than that- it’s a one crafted in our Desi Bollywood– Don 2. ‘Don ko pakadna mushkil hi nahi, namumkin hai’ (It’s not just difficult to catch Don, it’s impossible.)- is not the only catchphrase that will ring in your Read more

  • Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

    Ethan Hunt is back, back with a bang. Car Chases, Gun-toting assassins, Bomb blast in Kremlin, a clever psychopath and the world on the brink of nuclear war- it’s time for Tom Cruise to set the stage on fire with his action packed, gadgets riddled new Mission Impossible movie. Thumbs Up for the plethora of Read more

  • Poseidon

    I normally surf Television. In the process, I come across some remarkable shows which get me hooked (Ben10, Chhota Bheem, Roll No. 21!), or some really nice afternoon or after midnight flicks. I saw Poseidon on UTV Action this afternoon. I must say it ain’t no Titanic, but the action-sequences are pretty good. A Tsunami Read more

  • Gamer

    If you think you can stomach some grime and blood for the weekend- Gamer is the ultimate movie. Full marks for the novel concept. A nano chip inside your head (which slowly replaces the cell of your brain) makes you a puppet in the hand of the ultimate puppet master (the person playing the game!). Read more

  • Big Fish

    Well, what do you do when you are tired and frustrated- it’s midnight, dark and you are suffering from the bouts of Insomania- you watch the Big Fish by Tom Burton– well it ain’t no Sherlock Holmes but Big Fish is a tale of a tale-yarner: a story teller. Well, in the back waters, a Read more