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Inglourious Basterds – Movie Review

Posted in Classics, Movie reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Inglourious Basterds- Tarentino’s epic!

Chapter 1

Once upon a time…
Script in the making
Ever since 2001, Tarentino had been talking about the script which one day would be his master piece : “My bunch-of-guys-on-a-mission film. My Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare or Guns of Navarone kind of thing.” Story of Any genre seems to [...]

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Carlito’s Way(1993)-Movie Review

Posted in Classics, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Carlito’s way- Tough and touching!

“I don’t invite this shit. It just comes to me.” These words, uttered by Carlito Brigante the protagonist of this Brian De Palma film happen to be the spine of this gangster story, voiced-over with deaths and disappointments. Al Pacino and Sean Penn don two vital roles in the movie which [...]

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Vaaranam Aayiram – Movie Review

Posted in Classics, Movie reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Varanam Aayiram- Paradise lost and regained!

Gautham Menon’s Magnum Opus Varanam Aayiram has come out with a million flying colors. Being a biography, Vaaranam Aayiram blooms in the lines of Aarilirunthu arupathu varai, Autograph and Thavamai Thavamirunthu. As the trailer says, ‘This is not an action film’ but instead a commercially salted Father-son flick. Though Gautham [...]

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The Shining(1980)- Movie Review

Posted in Classics on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The shining- On the ‘axe’s’ edge!

Stanley Kubrick demonstrates how horror and terror can be carved on a screen, in his 1980 film The Shining. Based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King ‘The Shining’ proves to be a horror Avant-garde. At the same time it vividly states that blood and gore which [...]

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Scarface (1983)- Movie Review

Posted in Classics on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Scarface- A flamboyant tragedy!

A year after ‘Blow Out’, Brian De Palma loosely remakes the 1932 film of the same name and this time his script is penned by Oliver Stone. Al Pacino and Steven Bauer play the leads of this passionate but powerful movie. With a historical background, the life of Tony Montana, a ruthless [...]

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Sexy Beast- Movie Review

Posted in Classics on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sexy Beast- Sexy as well as skanky!

‘Films or commercials, Whatever you do, do it in style’, seems to be the motto of Jonathan Glazer who has directed this Sexy Beast written by Louis Mellis&David Scinto. We admire this Pocket sized dynamite as soon as we see it, we are awe-struck when its ignited by Ben [...]

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Apocalypse Now (1979)-Movie review

Posted in Classics on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Apocalypse now – Tracking down evil

Francis Ford Coppola presents us this dark but glowing crystal ball made from the magic script written by himself along with John Milius and Michael Herr which is produced once again by him. The movie travels through the dense forests of Vietnam [shot in Philippines] and the Vietnam War is [...]

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Rounders(1998)-Movie review

Posted in Classics on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Rounders – A card, two lads and a few thousand dollars!

This time John Dahl comes home with a script on the hush-hush world of underground poker written by David Levien & Brian Koppelman while Ted Demme & Joel Stillerman provide him pecuniary support. Before getting into the description of the sneaky realm of poker, one [...]

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