Posts Tagged ‘Movie Review’

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    Avaze Gonjeshk-ha: a Face and a Camera
    There’s something batshit insane about Majid Majidi’s The Song of Sparrows (my first experience of Majidi). Don’t get me wrong; I love the movie. It is one of the most down-to-earth movies I’ve ever seen, but it has a sort of manic energy you don’t see in American, or Indian or British, cinema. Personally, I hadn’t seen anything like this before. While both...
    by Ronak M Soni at November 21st, 2009 at 03:11 am
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    Kurbaan – Now Serving “Terror Concoction Vomit Curry”
    You are a Pakistani national and now you wish to terrorize the US. How should you go about it ? Lets see, the most effective way for you would be to cross into the “friendly” neighbour country, India (here they let terrorists enter easily, remember Kasab et al.?). Here you romance, seduce and marry a Hindu girl, only make sure that you find one who has a job in New...
    by Padmaja Thakore at November 20th, 2009 at 05:11 pm
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    Kurbaan Movie Review : Kuch kuch terrorism hai?
    Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Om Puri Direction: Rensil D’Silva Rating: One and a half stars I desisted from writing an instant-noodle review of Kurbaan. I said I wouldn’t, there’s no point etc. Because it raised my hackles to the extent that I wondered whether I was responding to this travesty of a film as a critic or as a Muslim. I saw the film again, reflected...
    by Khalid Mohamed at November 20th, 2009 at 06:11 am
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    Exclusive Review: Sudhir Mishra’s Tera Kya Hoga Johnny
    Quick! What’s common in Johnny Gaddar, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, 99, Sankat City? Besides the fact that they all represent the fast growing Indo-Indie genre, they were all heist movies. Each of these movies made good box office gains together with appealing to the mojo of urban film goers. So, the obvious question is, is heist drama the easy bait and the formula for commercial...
    by Girimohan Coneti at November 19th, 2009 at 10:11 am
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    Tum Mile Movie Review : Wet Until Dark
    Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan, Water Kumar Director: Kunal Deshmukh Rating: Three stars Squawk. The wannapaint Picasso is facing an artist’s block. How he rumbles, bumbles, grumbles. Then flash! He sees his live-in girlfriend sitting sadly on the bed, our faces turn red, and heil M F Husain, the artist is ready with a canvas overnight. Right. That’s a rather...
    by Khalid Mohamed at November 13th, 2009 at 07:11 am
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    Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Movie Review : Laugh’s like that
    Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Salman Khan (for a minute!) Director: Raj Kumar Santoshi Rating: Two and a half stars The kid’s brilliant. So watch it Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor and all the big and small Khans. At the rate he’s going – by sheer evidence of his screen charisma, technical felicity and youth power – Ranbir Kapoor...
    by Khalid Mohamed at November 6th, 2009 at 07:11 am
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    Jail Movie Review : What a jail bin machhli!
    Jail Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Manoj Bajpai and Ram Gopal Varma movie-type of clowns-`n’-clones Director: Madhur Bhandarkar out of form Rating: Two stars (there’s nothing here that you don’t know or haven’t seen already) Egg tu Bhandarkar!  His angry young prisoner is thrown right into the dark-as-a-burnt-omelette baida cell. During  solitary confinement,...
    by Khalid Mohamed at November 5th, 2009 at 10:11 am
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    The Men Who Stare At Goats
    Language: English Director : Grant Heslov Writers: Peter Straughan ( Screenplay ),Jon Ronson( Source Material ) Release Date: 6 November 2009 ( USA ) Cast: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey Producers: George Clooney, Paul Lister, Grant Heslov Music: Rolfe Kent Cinematography: Robert Elswit Film Editing: Tatiana S.Riegel Vote your reactions for the movie below....
    by PFCdesktop at November 5th, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    London Dreams – Is the Better of Bollywood Reality
    At the fag-end of a season of big-budget films (Aladin, Main aur Mrs Khanna, Blue, Acid Factory, Wanted) where you wondered at the smugness with which filmmakers insult the intelligent audience comes Vipul Shah’s London Dreams. I want to argue that London Dreams is different in that it tells an average story with a conviction and engages its “target” audience...
    by Padmaja Thakore at November 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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    Aladin Review – And Analysis
    Aladin is a decent film – not great, but not as bad as some people seem to be gleefully making it out to be. It’s good clean fun, it’s laugh-out-gut-bustingly-loud in several places, and it’s the kind of film you can happily take your kids or kid cousins to. While I wouldn’t say it’s a path-breaking classic, I would definitely say all seven of us had a good...
    by Kenny Basumatary at October 30th, 2009 at 05:10 pm
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    London Dreams movie review : Rock Yawn!
    London Dreams (limited) Cast: Ajay Devgn, Salman Khan, Asin, Om Puri, Kababs Direction: Vipul Amrutlal Shah Rating: Two stars (okay so it has a huge budget, technical varnish, A-list stars..so what?) Whip whip hurray. To keep himself away from carnal pleasures – read Miss Asin – the wannasing, wannarock star snaps his belt off, and flagellates himself. Ouch,...
    by Khalid Mohamed at October 29th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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    Paranormal Activity (2007, 2009): Lets redefine FEAR, in a SIMPLE way!!!
    Written and Directed by Oren Pali Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat Shiny silver sheets cover a sleeping couple seen on their personal camera sitting on the tripod in the other end of the room. Fast forward as time comes nearer. Play mode again and a shadow barely makes an appearance on the open door, continued by a THUD. Swallow that fear because it is just beginning....
    by Jateen at October 24th, 2009 at 06:10 pm
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    Blue
    After watching Blue, there are quiet a few facets of the Hindi film industry which have come to the forefront now: Film Making Courses: So far there are quite a few institutes like FTII, Anupam Kher Prepares and Whistling Woods where one can learn film making. Now they all have stiff competition. Here come the Dhilin Mehta’s Uber-Cool Diploma School (DUDS). Dhilin Mehta...
    by Sudhir Nair at October 20th, 2009 at 08:10 am
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    Puthiya Mugham Movie Review
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    by Suraj Nair at October 19th, 2009 at 06:10 pm
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    All The Best Movie Review : The Good The Bad The Gaudy
    ALL THE BEST The good, the bad and the gaudy Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Bipasha Bsu, Mughda Godse Director: Rohit Shetty Rating: Two and half stars Once ‘pun a time. Referring to the household ayah, a guy trills Baharon phool barsao mera mehboob ayah hai.  Quips are made about Slumdog Millionaire, and there’s this madcap moment involving Ajay Devgn (he’s dropped...
    by Khalid Mohamed at October 16th, 2009 at 09:10 am
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    Rita – A Marathi Movie that’s getting noticed
    Marathi film industry has seen a spate of releases recently. With many Bollywood production houses pumping money, its exciting time for Marathi film Directors. Alas, the same can not be said about the quality of movies which the industry is churning out. Rita is the directorial debut of Renuka Shahane. The story is based on her mother Shanta Gokhale’s novel- Rita Wellingkar....
    by cinemausher at October 15th, 2009 at 03:10 pm
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    Blue Movie Review : In Shallow Waters
    Blue Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan, Sharks, Bahama butts Direction: (not much of it) Anthony D’Souza Rating: One star..and that’s being generous Sharks, there go those shucks! Ulp, excuzee, pardon, sowie. Shucks there go those sharks! And hey, they’re smooth-as-slate grey. Their teeth aren’t visible (must be senior seatizens). Plus...
    by Khalid Mohamed at October 15th, 2009 at 10:10 am
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    Main Aurr Mrs Khanna
    Language: Hindi Director : Prem R.Soni Writer: Prem R.Soni Release Date: 16 October 2009 ( India ) Cast: Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sohail Khan Producers: Ronnie Screwvala, Sohail Khan Music: Sajid-Wajid Cinematography: Sudeep Chatterjee Film Editing: Chirag Jain Vote your reactions for the movie below. Click on the number of stars you would like to give to the movie...
    by PFCdesktop at October 15th, 2009 at 08:10 am
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    The King of Slapstick is back
    The King of Slapstick David Dhawan  is back . He was the one who started it all  ,years ago with his madcap vulgar comedies that made no  sense , yet it made the people  laugh . The whole genre of ‘leave your brains at home Hindi Movie comedies’ was started by him . He has churned out hits after hits in that genre  . But frankly none of his movies can be described...
    by proneet dutta at October 4th, 2009 at 06:10 am
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    Capitalism: A hate story
    Beware, the bespectacled hat man cometh!! And he brings with him his accoutrement and entourage of cameramen/women to lay bare the festering wound in the dream-nation of USA that spread like gangrene to other parts of this dollar-dependent world. Yes, it’s Michael Moore again, with his giant strides nulled by his almost child-like voice –over. The object of his ire...
    by Aneesh (An Jo) at October 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
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    Sid wakes up as the Viewers sleep
    The new offering from Dharma Productions and debutant director Ayan Mukerji, ‘Wake up Sid’ has nothing new to offer. Taking up a plot that has been used and reused incalculably, wake up sid narrates the story of a confused, rich, spoilt brat Siddharth Mehra (Ranbir), living a luxurious life on his father’s hard earned money. The whole story revolves around...
    by Sushant Sudhakaran at October 2nd, 2009 at 09:10 am
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    Wake Up Sid is genteel
    Over the years, my expectation from Karan Johar movies have steadily declined to the point that despite the good music and good promos I didn’t have much expectations from Wake Up Sid. But cut to the end of the first half, and I thoroughly liked the movie. Wake Up Sid is a simple story based on the coming of age genre and compared to other recent Bollywood films...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at October 2nd, 2009 at 04:10 am
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    Wake Up Sid
    Language: Hindi Director: Ayan Mukerji Writers: Ayan Mukerji ( Story, Screenplay), Niranjan Iyengar ( Dialogues ) Release Date: 2 October 2009 ( India ) Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Anupam Kher Producers: Karan Johar,Hiroo Johar Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Amit Trivedi Cinematography: Anil Mehta Film Editing: Shan Mohammed Enter your reviews and rate the...
    by PFCdesktop at October 1st, 2009 at 07:10 am
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    Capitalism: A Love Story
    Language: English Director: Michael Moore Writers: Michael Moore ( Screenplay ) Release Date: 2 October 2009 ( U.S.A ) Cast: Michael Moore Producers: Michael Moore, Anne Moore Music: Jeff Gibbs Cinematography: Jayme Roy, Daniel Marracino Film Editing: John Walter, Conor O’Neill, Todd Woody Richman Enter your reviews and rate the movie in the comments below. Movies...
    by PFCdesktop at October 1st, 2009 at 07:10 am
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    9 Movie Review
    I have not seen any Tim Burton movie. Neither have I read anything about him or his movies. I know 9 is not made by Tim Burton, but by Shane Acker, but I find everyone around me talking about the film, the expectations, the outcome and most importantly: Tim Burton. I did not carry any expectations. I’ve always been a sucker for real emotions, and rarely have I pushed...
    by Jehan Handa at September 8th, 2009 at 06:09 am
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    Raaz 2: Movie Review
    Making a successful horror movie’s a tricky task. People who like horror films have seen so many of them that it requires something really extraordinary to scare them. And the people who detest horror films because it scares them, (and hence are the target audience) mostly stay away. So always there has been an added attraction with the horror to lure the audience...
    by Sudhir Nair at January 24th, 2009 at 12:01 am
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    Film Review – Dostana
    Dostana Review iView Author: Dr.Mandar V. Bichu (Sharjah, U.A.E) Email: drmandarvb@yahoo.com Dostana Just as the end credits were rolling I managed to latch on to the name of the publicity firm for Dostana. It was‘Hype’- no kidding, I am dead serious. By the way, the firm has indeed done a good job. With slick promos and clever chat shows this first ever...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at November 16th, 2008 at 12:11 am
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    Quantum of Solace(2008)
    It is unusual that a James Bond film is released in India before it is released in USA. The 22nd James Bond film does not offer as one may expect after watching “Casino Royale”. “Quantum of Solace” which is like a sequel to “Casino Royale” falls short of expectations. The film opens with the sound track “Another Way to die”...
    by Krishna at November 9th, 2008 at 01:11 am
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    Contract: A Must Watch…
    Contract is a must watch to see how far has RGV fallen. RGV has always known to make movies based on reality. This time he has decided to an autobiographical touch to the movie. In Contract there’s an underworld Don called Goonga (Upyendra Limaye), who relentlessly makes plans after plans using someone else’s money and all the plans are termed super-flop by...
    by Sudhir Nair at July 23rd, 2008 at 07:07 am
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