Posted in Classics, Movie reviews, tagged baseball, Brad Pitt, Christoph waltz, cinema, epic, French, German, Hitler, Inglorious Basterds, Italy, masterpiece, minimalism, nitrate film, pabst, Quentin Tarentino, satan, schindler's list, Spaghetti western, swastika, terror, War on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Inglourious Basterds- Tarantino’s epic!
Chapter 1
Once upon a time…
Script in the making
Ever since 2001, Tarantino 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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Posted in Movie reviews, tagged Blockbuster, Comedy, Crime, David Gordon Green, Dope, Drug, humour, James Franco, Marijuana, Movie review, Seth Rogen, Slapstick on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pineapple Express- Simple strong and sexy!
Saul: “It’s called Pineapple Express. My guy Red told me it’s when this Hawaiian flood takes special dirt to the weed or some shit. It’s pretty scientific. And I’m the only guy in the whole city who has it.
And, its only ten bones more for a quarter.”
Nobody could explain David [...]
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Posted in Classics, Movie reviews, tagged Army, Biography, Commando, English Literature, Father-son, Gautham Menon, Harris Jeyaraj, Ilayaraja, Love, Movie reviews, Musical, Poems, Retro, Romance, Shamira Reddy, Simran, Surya, Vaaranam Ayiram 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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Posted in Movie reviews, tagged chaos theory, Comedy, fun, Judgment night, kidnap, Movie reviews, saroja movie review, Screenplay, Venkat Prabhu, Yuvan Shankar Raja on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saroja- A rocking remake!
Venkat Prabhu opens his second innings with Saroja produced by Amma Creations after a successful ‘Chennai 6000028′ first innings. Saroja is a loose remake of the 1993 Hollywood film ‘Judgment night‘. Though this movie is a remake, Venkat Prabhu has amiably intertwined his sub-plots into the original main-plot, indianising it, suitable for [...]
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Posted in Movie reviews, tagged Batman, Christian Bale, Dark, Diamond comics, Heath Ledger, hell, joker, morality, postmodernism, radical on August 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Dark Knight- Sober and somber!
“He is the hero Gotham deserves. But not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero…He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector…a DARK KNIGHT”
This is the epilogue of the Christian Bale starrer ‘Dark Knight’, directed by Christopher Nolan, a [...]
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Posted in Movie reviews on June 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Dasavatharam-Ten to Tango!
History, myth, science, religion and philosophy seem to be the regions where Kamal Hassan has dug out his script for this mega movie. Produced by Aascar Ravichandran and directed by dexterous K.S.Ravikumar, Dasavathaaram has finally hit the screens after crossing all the hurdles laid before it. Being the most hyped up movie of [...]
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Posted in Movie reviews on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Indiana Jones 4 -An adventurous Travelogue!
17 years ago, the third movie in the Indiana Jones series was released. Ever since then nobody has seen Mr.Jones or his comrades except in the American television series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles which was broadcasted from 1992 to 1993. Now, this summer, Steven Spielbergh comes forward with the [...]
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Kuruvi- Fails to take wing
Red giant movies proffers us this big little bird created by Director Dharani. This is nothing different from the recent commercial cocktails of Vijay. Front bench movie goers are the victims of this movie but they are happy about it and they seem to enjoy it. Three years ago Dharani was [...]
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Posted in Movie reviews on March 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Anjaathe – A tempestuous tale of two!
Once again another police story. In the recent past we have seen quite a few heroes in Khaki. Now in the paths of Saamy,Kaakha Kaakha and Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu we have Anjaathe. But one second, Sathyavaan the protagonist of this film is not vibrant as AnbuChelvan or brilliant as [...]
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