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Movie reviews

Saturday 15 November '08

Every once in a rare while, a film comes along to pleasure you in unexpected ways. Dasvidaniya, about a man who learns to live in the little time’s that left to him...
EMI

Saturday 8 November '08

There are two films in EMI — one, in which Malaika Arora Khan comes on every 10 minutes shaking her booty, in clothes getting skimpier by the minute, and another, in which four old men have a genuine conversation about their children in which the latter are allowed to have ambitions and to travel abroad without breaking their parents’ hearts.
Flashback's of a fool

Saturday 8 November '08

Here is a project apparently hoping to ride on Craig’s Bond shoulders, not to mention the rest of his nicely-taut and nicely-on-exhibit body.
2 Days in Paris

Saturday 8 November '08

In Julie Delpy’s Before Sunrise and its sequel Before Sunset, a couple find love that comes once in a lifetime in a few brief, hastily snatched hours before they part.
Quantum of Solace

Saturday 8 November '08

This 007 had everything going for it: Daniel Craig, who wowed audiences and critics alike in his first outing as Bond, not a mean feat considering how long the hunt was for the new MI6 agent; Judi Dench in a meatier role as M; Paul Haggis (Crash, In the Valley of Elah) as writer; and Marc Foster as director.
Movie reviews

Saturday 8 November '08

This 007 had everything going for it: Daniel Craig, who wowed audiences and critics alike in his first outing as Bond...
Movie reviews

Saturday 8 November '08

This 007 had everything going for it: Daniel Craig, who wowed audiences and critics alike in his first outing as Bond...
Movie reviews

Saturday 25 October '08

Indian animation has finally come of age. Roadside Romeo, the first Walt Disney-Yashraj rollout is a barrel of fun: “Bole toh, ekdum jhakaas, baap”...
Days Of Glory (English)

Saturday 25 October '08

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. This film examines the three pillars on which the French Republic stands through the eyes of soldiers summoned from its colonies to fight a war for liberalising a people...
Body Of Lies

Saturday 18 October '08

“There's nothing to like in the Middle East,” mumbles Ed Hoffman, a CIA top-notch played by Crowe, trying to dissuade Roger Ferris from staying back in Amman.
Movie reviews

Saturday 18 October '08

When Subhash Ghai’s Karz came out in 1980, there were mutterings about how it had ripped off cheesy Hollywood drama The Reincarnation of Peter Proud.
Movie reviews

Saturday 11 October '08

One could call Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day a light-weight comedy of manners. However, that wouldn’t be doing justice to this “satire” on the fashionable set...
Moview reviews

Saturday 27 September '08

Warner Bros were getting antsy for nothing. Hari Puttar has nothing to do with the Harry Potter films, other than the fact that both have been filmed in England.
Charlie Bartlett

Saturday 27 September '08

Now what exactly is this film about? A poor little rich kid missing his parents? A principal trying to run a school of hardboiled kids?
The X-Files: I Want To Believe

Saturday 27 September '08

Some files are meant never to be closed, and many would argue that The X-Files fits that category.
Movie reviews

Saturday 20 September '08

Welcome to the return of Shyam Benegal. The director, who’s been meandering for some time with stodgy biopics and moral science lessons...
Three Monkeys

Saturday 20 September '08

There are secrets within all families, and so the premise of Ceylan’s award-winning Turkish film has everything going for it...
I will use Atray tournament to make a comeback: Ganguly

Tuesday 16 September '08

Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly is still harbouring hopes of making a comeback to the Indian Test side and will use the local J P Atray Memorial cricket tournament as an opportunity to gather some form and make his case.
Journey To The Center Of The Earth

Saturday 13 September '08

A successor to Indiana Jones and National Treasure, Journey to the Center of the Earth is the start of what promises to be another new adventure film franchise
Righteous Kill

Saturday 13 September '08

Obviously Righteous Kill prides itself on that tagline, seeing the way it has been playing over and over in promotions and features twice at least in the film.
Mamma Mia!

Saturday 13 September '08

In 2007 there was Across the Universe, which used Beatles songs to convey the heartbreak, confusion and ambition of the tumultuous ‘60s
Movie reviews

Saturday 13 September '08

Can you imagine anyone else in Hindi cinema’s A-list doing Shakespeare, seriously, on celluloid? Amitabh Bachchan’s lineage and leanings have always pointed to an actor who...
Moview reviews

Saturday 13 September '08

Can you imagine anyone else in Hindi cinema’s A-list doing Shakespeare, seriously, on celluloid? Amitabh Bachchan’s lineage and leanings have always pointed to an actor who, like his character in The Last Lear, would count having brought to life the Bard’s greatest creations, as a professional peak.
What Happens In Vegas

Saturday 6 September '08

Perhaps the most intelligent thing about this film, even if it is yet again about Vegas, is that it casts Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher...
Padre Nuestro

Saturday 6 September '08

Christopher Zalla, who also wrote the story of Padre Nuestro, says what lies at the centre of the film is “the search for family”.
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