Hollywood
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With movies that are adapted from books, you find lot of people saying: The book was better. In many cases, I’m inclined to agree. With a well-written book, our imagination creates a more interesting experience than is usually captured on celluloid. Mind you, more interesting is usually just another way of saying different. Another factor
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This is likely to be one of those posts that very few people read. Why? Because even Ekalavya can count on the fingers of one hand, the number of people I know who have heard of this beautiful, sad, quirky movie about a hired assassin who sees himself as a samurai and lives by their
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Rediff reports that Marc Forster is directing the next Bond film starring Daniel Craig. This could be a very interesting venture. With Casino Royale, the makers of the franchise have shown a willingness to get darker and more human. Daniel Craig has proven himself equal to the task as well. And Marc Forster is the
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Citizen Kane comes with a lot of baggage. For decades now, it has been voted the greatest movie of all time by a number of critics around the world. Mostly in the English-speaking world, I think, but that’s not the point here. The point is, it’s extremely unlikely that you’ll get to watch this movie
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Tombstone is a good Val Kilmer movie stuck inside a bad movie featuring the rest of the cast. Whenever Val Kilmer appears, you find something to watch. The rest of the time, you might as well go do the dishes or something. The film tells the story of how Wyatt Earp and his band of
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If you were to compare rom-coms to bonds, The Holiday would be a treasury bill. Extremely low risk, proportionately low return. It stars Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as Amanda and Iris, two beautiful single women on two different continents who decide to swap homes for the Christmas holidays. They’re both looking for a change
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I remember being completely surprised by Clerks. Kevin Smith took a camera, put it in one place, got a couple of deadbeats and had them talk all movie long. They spoke of everything: Star Wars, sex, other movies as compared to Star Wars, sex… Okay, mostly just those two things, and some idle philosophizing in
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There’s a scene in Serendipity, an otherwise forgettable rom-com, where the John Cusack character holds forth on The Godfather series. He speaks of how Part 2 is a great movie, maybe even better than Part 1, but it works so well only because you’ve seen Part 1. This might serve to explain why I chose
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My review of Chak De India seems to have started off a discussion on the use of a standard formula in most sports movies. Giri, Rajendran and Ratnakar are right: you watch them for the adrenaline rush. It matters not if they’re formulaic. There’s an amazing passage in The God of Small Things where Arundhati
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Warning: This post isn’t exactly G-rated, if you get my drift. If this is likely to bother you, go read something else. Jersey Girl is, above all, a sweet movie. I say this because with Kevin Smith, sweet can be hard to come by. Funny, though, is another matter entirely. The man writes funnier dialogue
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