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Warning: Here be spoilers A long time ago, a director named Vasanth, best known until then for romances like Keladi Kanmani, made a thriller called Aasai. It starred Prakash Raj (in a stunning breakout role) as a psychotic man who kills his wife so he could marry her sister. There was, of course, a conventional…
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Eighty-odd movies to choose from, including Oscar winners, multi-starrers and the like. And what do I pick? A nice little little French rom-com called Hors de prix. That it stars Audrey Tautou might make things easier to understand. This, however, is no Amelie. Tautou stars as a high-class hooker Irene (I’ve seen the term adventuress…
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I’m back from Shanghai. Might do a couple of travelogue posts on it as well, but for now, it’s back to the main course: movies. By far the best thing about flying Singapore Airlines was the selection of movies on board. I ended up watching four movies, and none of them disappointed. My next few…
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Watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance is probably the single most enchanting thing I have ever seen in a movie. It is not just their grace and precision (Astaire was known to be a perfectionist and rehearsed indefatigably). It’s the sheer joy of their performance. They seem so happy dancing that it lights up…
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I read Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park before I got to see the movie. The book was dark and very interesting – it had a lot to say about chaos theory and man trying to control something he doesn’t understand and so on. The technical portions, especially relating to chaos theory, were fascinating. However, when Steven…
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A plot borrowed from Kramer Vs. Kramer. A poster borrowed from Sleepless in Seattle. Music borrowed from, among other things, Deep Purple’s Child in Time, George Michael’s Last Christmas and Bruccia La Terra from The Godfather. Incidentally, one of the movie’s subplots involves a talented, original music director (who “composed” all of the aforementioned songs)…
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But it’s remarkable, isn’t it, that the Brits have produced Narnia, the Ring, Hogwarts, Gormenghast, James Bond, Alice and Pooh, and what have we produced for them in return? I was going to say “the cuckoo clock,” but for that you would require a three-way Google of Italy, Switzerland and Harry Lime. — Excerpt from…
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Yeah, I know what this blog is about. Consider this a post written about a movie yet to be released. Warning: Here be spoilers! First off, I loved the book. Thought it wrapped things up nicely and gave the series a satisfying conclusion. The final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort totally worked. When Harry calls…
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Okay, I like romantic movies. I even cry at some of them. So sue me. Good. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I can talk about this movie. For people who have watched it, all I have to do to specify my favourite scene is mention a single line: You had me…
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