Great scenes
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The Brothers Coen do comedy like few others do: they do it in such a way that, half the time you don’t even realize that you should be laughing your ass off. This sort of statement would normally be an insult. With the Coens, it is simply a statement of fact, and a sort of
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Towards the end of Caramel, Nadine Labaki’s debut feature that follows the fortunes of four women who work in a beauty salon in Beirut, is a moment of heartbreaking duplicity that conveys far more than it depicts. It features Jamale (played with barely restrained desperation by Gisele Aouad), a has-been actress hoping for a second
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Remaking A Few Good Men was always going to be a tough task, simply because Jack Nicholson had way too much fun chewing up the scenery that you just couldn’t hope to match up to that. So Shaurya decides to attack the problem from a different angle — it makes the movie a lot more serious
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The trouble with biopics — or movies based on real life incidents or characters in general — is that one keeps wondering how much of it is fact and how much is fiction. The good ones manage to create a world that is internally consistent and emotionally true, to the extent that we don’t care so much
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I seem to have fallen into the curious pattern of doing freeze frame posts on The Godfather trilogy in reverse. I started off with a moving little scene in Part III (pretty much the only scene in that movie that grabbed me, come to think of it). And now, a moment in Part II. There’s
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Hustle and Flow tells the story of a man who wishes to become a rap star, and sinks all his earnings into the effort until it almost breaks him. The rap music involved is fairly okay, maybe just a bit above average. The lyrics aren’t G-rated either. And yeah, I suppose I should mention that he
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Irrfan Khan isn’t anybody’s idea of a romantic hero. Not mine, at any rate. He isn’t all that great to look at — it’s easier to imagine him in gloomy character roles. He has a sightly hurried, slightly slurred style of dialogue delivery. And yet, he manages to make it all work. I have no
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To be honest, I’m not sure I really got this movie. I could see what it was getting at, but I never really found myself caring about Gogol’s journey. The stops along the way seemed familiar (inasmuch as something I haven’t experienced personally could feel familiar), but I couldn’t feel the wind in my face.
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This is what a Hindi movie about thieves and a plan gone wrong should be like. A sharp screenplay that drips with references but has enough going for it beyond that, good acting all around, and a music video that absolutely drips with style. While the entire movie is quite good, it is the video
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The amazing thing about Sigappu Rojakkal is that it doesn’t play like a thriller, although a two line synopsis of the plot will make it seem like one. The movie is about a man named Dileep (Kamalhassan) who seduces willing women and then kills them, while secretly filming all of it. He falls in love
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