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Ekalavya isn’t a great movie. But it is, without doubt, a very good one. It is gorgeously shot and well acted, narrates a simple plot well and doesn’t overstay its welcome. It has its flaws too, chief among them being a tendency to overstate things in its dialogue. But on balance, it’s well worth a…
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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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Warning: If you haven’t seen the movie, you might want to reconsider reading this post. Here be spoilers. There’s a scene at the end of the first half in Chak De India when the team has finally begun to act as one. It comes soon after they’ve mutinied against their coach and refused to play…
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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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I wasn’t very pleased when Roberto Benigni won Best Actor at the Academy Awards, danced on chairs and expressed a fervent desire to make love to everyone in the auditorium. I felt Tom Hanks deserved the statuette that year, for his portrayal of Capt. John Miller in Saving Private Ryan. Having said that, I did…
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