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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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Shiva is a late-80s action movie about one man taking on an organized crime syndicate. Considering how many such movies get made regularly even today, it’s amazing that it still holds up so well. Some scenes come across as tacky, and the lighter material is of the hit-or-miss variety, but the intensity of the movie…
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The Brits know Shilpa Shetty as the woman who won Big Brother. A bunch of culture-preserving gentlemen know her as the woman who kissed Richard Gere in public. (Maybe she just got kissed, but this is a minor quibble when our centuries-old culture is at stake.) Me, I will always remember her as the girl…
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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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