Review
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How come in former lifetimes, everybody is someone famous? I mean, how come nobody ever says they were Joe Schmo? — Crash Davis, Bull Durham Many centuries ago, a Pallava king named Bodhidharma went to China to spread Buddhist teachings. He brought with him, not just Buddha’s message of peace, but also the knowledge of…
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Ra.One is a pitch perfect example of a wholesome family entertainer. It is a touching story about a father’s love for his son, and how it lives on in the form of a video game character come to life, set amidst a high-octane confrontation between a seemingly indestructible villain and a seemingly vulnerable and “human”…
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Okay, so it’s not a great film. It doesn’t even seem to aspire to greatness, it’s a little longer than it needs to be, there’s nothing outstandingly funny or profound or dramatic about it, there are moments when it feels like an extended program on the Travel & Living Channel… On the plus side, Katrina…
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So it all ends. And I am left with the feeling that maybe, just maybe, it could’ve ended a little bit better. The fault lies, I think, with Voldemort. As much as the focus of the series is Harry growing up to face his destiny and defeat one of the greatest wizards of his time,…
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Right at the beginning of POTC4, there is a moment where you see Capt. Jack Sparrow in a wig. A little later, Capt. Hector Barbossa also makes his appearance in attire entirely unsuited to his demeanor. These moments, although not entirely unexpected, produce a sigh of satisfaction. The three POTC movies that have come before…
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Ko is a good movie about a journalist finding himself in the midst of a large conspiracy, wrapped inside a crappy movie about a Tamil film hero playing a journalist. The latter is the dominant one in the partnership. This needn’t have been a bad thing — the result could’ve been a masala movie with…
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Nowhere, not even in the more improbable outreaches of the Hollywood High School multiverse, would someone looking like Emma Stone be ignored by the student populace and not get so much as asked out by any heterosexual male with at least two brain cells to rub together. And if there really exists a high school…
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If I am King, where is my power? Can I declare war? Form a government? Levy a tax? No! And yet I am the seat of all authority because they think that when I speak, I speak for them. When you think about it, the story of a guy with a speech impediment getting over…
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A few years ago, when I watched Juno, was completely charmed by it and wrote a glowing review, one of my friends told me that the reason why she didn’t like the movie was that it kinda trivialized teenage pregnancy by treating it as comedy. I didn’t agree with her on that one, but I…
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There is a voiceover narration by the Rani Mukherjee character (a TV journo named Mira) while the opening credits roll, that contains the following statement: “Everybody is somebody in Delhi. Nobody is nobody.” The corollary to that sort of Orwellian equality, of course, is that some somebodies are more of a somebody than others. Jessica…
