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Perhaps one ought to recognize a genre that can be described as “Shut Up and Watch” movies. While this applies to the audience in most cases, in this case I refer to instructions for the filmmakers. Or to be more specific, movies where the instruction was followed. A very small group of films qualify. Of
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I spent a good bit of time trying to figure out how to write a coherent review Paa before I realized something. The entire publicity machine for Paa focuses on the fact that Amitabh Bachchan plays a twelve year-old with Progeria (a genetic disorder that makes him look like he’s pushing seventy) and Abhishek Bachchan
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As of yesterday, I’ve been married seven years. So obviously, the image of Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate is among the first things to come to mind. Not that I’m feeling in the least bit itchy, but you can’t be a movie buff and be married for seven years and not remember the
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The Blind Side tells the story of a homeless African-American teenager who is taken in by an affluent white family and goes on to become a big football player. Much of the marketing emphasizes the “big” portion of that phrase — indeed, Michael Oher pretty much doubles the combined volume of the Tuohy family when
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One of the customs in a Bengali wedding is for the groom’s family to give fish-shaped sweets to the bride’s family. Apparently, this is a modified version of the original custom where they used to give an actual fish, usually a large one. Which makes me wonder: If Connie Corleone had married, say someone named
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Beware: Here be spoilers! There is a crucial moment in Up in the Air when Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) finds himself having to talk someone out out of a course of action. It doesn’t help that the other man’s beliefs echo what he has been preaching all these years. Bingham even moonlights as a self-help
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We find it easier to kow-tow to the Thackerays of the world, simply because we wish to go about our daily lives in peace. When asked about our vertebrae, we respond that we, the mango people, cannot afford one — the price tag is too high. Then something like this happens. Maybe it’s a calculated
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Vishal Bharadwaj brought The Bard into this milieu. And now, here’s his protege Abhishek Chaubey with some film noir. The ingredients are all there — criminals, a femme fatale, a dog-eat-dog world, betrayals, a tenuous code of honour… Except, it isn’t quite film noir. At a crucial point in the story, one character is revealed
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Aayirathil Oruvan starts off by depicting an archeological expedition to find the remains of a lost Chola settlement somewhere off the coast of Vietnam. As it happens, our explorers find not ruins, but a living Chola civilization, completely cut off from society for many centuries. It is here that Selvaraghavan makes an inspired choice. Instead
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Beware: There be spoilers! Ranbir Kapoor’s star power — and make no mistake, the man definitely has it — seems to derive from his ability to project puppy-dog earnestness like nobody else in the business. That we haven’t tired of it yet bodes well for him, but I am eager to see if he can
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