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Movie reviews

Saturday 4 April '09

Charles Waechter (Dafoe) isn’t a bad father; he just doesn’t know any other way. For years, Michael (Reynolds) has to bear the brunt of it...
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Saturday 21 March '09

By now almost all of us know about the film, and many of us have read the book on which it is based...
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Saturday 14 March '09

This is a film on the story of Ralph Waldo ‘Peetey’ Greene, who, at the time of the tumultuous Sixties, the anti-Vietnam War protests and the shooting of Martin Luther King...
Boy-zone

Saturday 7 March '09

Ritu Sarin, now a mother of two teenage girls, was once herself a lanky, unkempt tween. And by her own admission, a tomboy to the core.
Fun all the way

Saturday 7 March '09

All these years, I’ve been treated as the underdog. My full potential has still not been realized.
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Saturday 7 March '09

A Decade after he made American Beauty, Sam Mendes peeps into the life of another family living in the suburbs, playing at being happy as the path of least resistance.
The Pink Panther 2

Thursday 5 March '09

This is Steve Martin’s film and despite the jarring accent, his Inspector Clouseau makes you laugh, whether it’s questioning the Pope over the robbery of his ring or falling off the papal balcony while doing the same.
Emotional Arithmetic

Thursday 5 March '09

Based on a novel by Matt Cohen of the same name, Emotional Arithmetic is about three people who developed a life-long bond while housed in a camp during the Holocaust.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Saturday 28 February '09

Swept aside by the Slumdog Millionaire wave at the Oscars barring a few technical awards.
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Saturday 21 February '09

Apart from all that he did, Hitler left Germany the unbearable burden of an explanation, of poring over the whys and the hows for years to come in order to understand what had happened.
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Sunday 15 February '09

Once upon an ancient time, an exemplary friendship illumined our land: tales of Lord Krishna and his childhood pal Sudama, perhaps apocryphal, perhaps mythical, still continue to regale and delight us.
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Saturday 14 February '09

Once upon an ancient time, an exemplary friendship illumined our land: tales of Lord Krishna and his childhood pal Sudama...
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Saturday 7 February '09

Here’s a film that makes you realise how little it is that we see one of its kind - a film where ordinary people live ordinary lives...
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Saturday 31 January '09

Is being a good actor enough to make you a star? In Zoya Akhtar’s detailed sketch of Bollywood and its colourful...
Movie reviews

Saturday 31 January '09

Is being a good actor enough to make you a star? In Zoya Akhtar’s detailed sketch of Bollywood and its colourful...
Bedtime Stories

Saturday 31 January '09

On the face of it, ‘Bedtime Stories’ is one of those stories told at bedtime: safe, comforting and predictable. But there is a topping...
Movie Review: Bedtime Stories

Friday 30 January '09

On the face of it, Bedtime Stories is one of those stories told at bedtime: safe, comforting and predictable. But there is a topping: it has Adam Sandler, a hero whose main virtue isn't his looks, kingdom or valour but a likeability that helps you overlook all of it. He is Shrek, with an "ass" by his side.
Merry Christmas

Saturday 17 January '09

At the end of World War I, the first global war, which really didn’t solve anything, was a figure of 40 million people dead.
Changeling

Saturday 17 January '09

For nearly 80 years, this story remained buried in the files of Los Angeles City Hall.
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Saturday 17 January '09

For nearly 80 years, this story remained buried in the files of Los Angeles City Hall. The scriptwriter, J Michael Straczynski, discovered it just when the documents were about to be destroyed...
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Sunday 11 January '09

The President Is Coming kickstarts the year with exactly the sort of lift we’ve been looking for-it’s free-spirited, irreverent, and funny.
Rocknrolla

Saturday 10 January '09

If Guy Ritchie had a bad time last year, this is the good news. The director, who has long been trying to establish himself as more than Madonna’s (now ex-) husband, comes up with a solid RocknRolla...
The Accidental Husband

Saturday 10 January '09

A woman foolish enough to professionally advise other people on love on the radio, and other women foolish enough to seek out her advice..
Movie reviews

Saturday 10 January '09

The President Is Coming kickstarts the year with exactly the sort of lift we’ve been looking for — it’s free-spirited, irreverent, and funny...
Movie reviews

Saturday 3 January '09

He called it his “Red Curtain” style of movie-making, requiring just a few basics: that the audience knows how the film will end when it begins...
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