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Orange County is the kind of good-natured movie that is impossible to dislike. Within five minutes of its running time, it had me comfortably settled in, and kept me mostly smiling, occasonally chuckling for most of its running time. And it had me laughing out loud at least once. Not a very impressive gag rate,…
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In the beginning of O Brother Where Art Thou?, a title card informs us that it was inspired by Homer’s Odyssey. When I saw that, I didn’t know whether to believe it – Fargo started out saying it was based on a true story whereas it actually was not. At the end of this quirky,…
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The principal function of everything and everyone in The Devil’s Advocate is to give Al Pacino an opportunity to play the devil. That he does so with considerable style is among the few good reasons to watch this movie. Al Pacino’s greatest strengths are his eyes and his voice. When it comes to delivering a…
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Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni are no more. I know little of their work, so I cannot speak knowledgeably of them. They haven’t done much in recent years, so there’s no point talking about the great loss to cinema. But maybe it’s a good occasion to remember what they did when they were alive and…
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I had heard a lot about Butch and Sundance, so I expected to find a gripping Western like A Fistful of Dollars or High Noon. I was quite surprised to find that it wasn’t anything like any of these movies. It was just about a couple of guys who liked to rob banks, and the…
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Music and Lyrics is what I’d call an easy rom-com. The humor is low key, the laughs aren’t forced, the movie’s amiable and friendly, and you walk out feeling content. The only part where I laughed out loud was during the music video that played over the opening credits. But I did have a good…
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No, I’m not discussing Kurt Vonnegut, in case you were wondering. A colleague of mine who just got back from NY told me that, whenever Paris Hilton was mentioned on TV, the prefix “jailbird” was attached to her name. Sure, the girl must’ve found it a lot more difficult than The Simple Life in there.…
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At one point, the narrator Cutter says of the audience that has just witnessed a magic trick being performed: “Now you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it. Because you don’t really want to know.” The Prestige tells the story of two magicians obsessed with each other’s downfall. But at a deeper level,…
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What is it with Hindi movies and infidelity? For a while now, this has been the focus of a number of movies beginning with the execrable Murder. Abbas-Mustan’s latest thriller Naqaab is yet another in this series. Much bile has been vented about the tagline – The most shocking thriller of the year – in…
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Yet another movie waiting to be made, and for a variety of reasons. Firstly, Hitch is one of the most obvious targets for a Hindi movie remake, and it was even more obvious to me, even while watching the original, that Govinda would do well in the Kevin James role. Secondly, if Govinda was making…
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