Emily Blunt’s free spirited catch phrase sums up this light and lovely movie that leaves behind a wonderful feeling on an exhausted heart and mind. ‘Wild Target‘ is a nice small film that leaves you smiling all the way with its simple but heart warming tale of an assassin and his relationship with a would-be [...]
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10 Dec
‘Earth’ enware
How acceptable is honesty when all that you believe in can be challenged and can be taken head on. ‘For the greater good’ can be a selfish term even though it may involve the fate of the masses, cause the greater good can only be defined by one and passed on. ‘The Man from Earth‘ [...]
30 Sep
Ode to Wych Kaosayananda
Why would anyone ever make Ecks vs Sever, while adding the title ‘Ballistics’ forever; Featuring the international cast of Banderas and Liu, along with a director who will never ever get his due. They shoot, maim and they kill, and we keep watching as we foot the theatre bill; The monologues sound more like something [...]
24 Sep
Damme good!
‘There’s somethin’ strange, in the neighbourhood, who you gonna call? – Jean Claude van Damme.’ If Ghostbuster’s was still the international flavour of the season, the anthem every Belgian would be singing while walking the streets of the hometown of the ‘Muscle from Brussels’ would be this. Jean Claude Van Damme has been Belgium’s biggest [...]
21 Sep
Deadgirl – A heavy body count
Picture this – you come across a girl in the darkest corner of a basement in an abandoned psychiatric hospital. The girl is tied up, shorn of all her clothes, on a hospital gurney with a dazed look in her eyes. What do you do? ‘Deadgirl‘ starts off from here. A movie from the heart [...]
20 Sep
Dabangg – More bangs for your buck
An Indian campy film never looked, sounded or felt so good. Take a bit of Sergio Leone‘s early Westerns, mix them with a bit of the Sippy brothers kitsch of the ’70s, get a psychologist to transcribe the dreams of every living BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, UP for the uninitiated) villager and bring in a [...]
5 Sep
The Expandables
No, that’s not a typo in the title of Sylvester Stallone‘s tribute to ’80s machismo. While a commendable effort to get in such a star cast, there is still that grey area where you feel that the director hasn’t done complete justice to some of the stars in this relaunch vehicle and could have expanded [...]
31 Aug
Dabangg Tracker
A chat with my friend brought about the question of ‘what if Dabangg failed after all the hype around it?’ This got me thinking after recalling Bollywood’s stinker list of over-hyped movies – Chandni Chowk to China, Tashan, The Rising – Mangal Pandey, Sawariya… My final verdict – that’s impossible. Reasons? Here goes, Abhinav Kashyap [...]
23 Aug
Deep Frost and Nixon
Today’s unexpected holiday gave me a chance to catch up with more TV. And halfway through the morning I caught Frost/Nixon on HBO. I may have missed around 20% of the movie when I first hit the screen, but I caught the best that it could offer. My respect for Ron Howard as a director [...]
28 Jul
Salman Khan’s Dabangg
Salman Khan is gonna kick some ass this September. I caught the Dabangg trailer on TV and the extended one on You Tube and it promises to be one heck of a ride in the North Indian badlands. For all his sins, I still give the guy credit for the work he’s done. His films [...]
