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Reviewed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Rogue One

SPOILER ALERT The latest Star Wars offering Rogue One creates the setting for the first Star Wars movie which was Star Wars: A New Hope. Rogue One comprises of a group of motley rebels, ordinary people with extraordinary passion who manage to find the plans of the Death Star. The Death Sta...Read more

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Reviewed Midnight's Children

Mid Hearted Attempt at Cinema

Rushdie's book rambles along with digressions which may seem irritating. But where he doesn't make mistake is creating the dreamlike feel with allegories and parallels. It is a book which is studied at the master's level in literature so does have importance. Capturing the epic essence of thi...Read more

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Reviewed Life of Pi

Think High as you watch Life of Pi

I read Life of Pi soon after it won a Man Booker in 2001. I found it mystical and touching in my young mind. The movie is a compressed version of the book but nevertheless brought me peace as I connected it to my experiences. I watched this movie amidst a multiplex crowd of students who thoro...Read more

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Reviewed Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Loooong dose of romance

Jab Tak Hai Jaan can be summarized in one line that it is an overdose of typical Yash Raj stuff.  What really is love and what is being in love with the concept of love?Realities are smashed throughout the movie. When an aged Shahrukh acts young and takes Meera or Katrina out on a night to be he...Read more

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Reviewed Defendor Movie

Defendor: fight for it

Defendor is a superhero movie where the main protagonist gets beaten up, broken time and again but never gives up on his belief. He has no gismo toys, super vehicle, or leather suit or hitech weapons. His personality also has similarities to the naive Forrest Gump. Arthur Poppington (Woody Ha...Read more

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Reviewed Let Me In Movie

More than a Vampire flick

Is true love born out of necessity and co dependence? 'Let Me In' is a poignant love story set in New Mexico, where a 12 year old boy who is the frequent victim of school bullies is drawn to a 12 year old mysterious girl who shifts to the neigborhood. Owen and Abby share striking chemistry an...Read more

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When Night Is Falling
When Night Is Falling Movie

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Reviewed Fragile Movie

Fragile yet good movie

I used to be an avid watcher of horror movies. Even since I started living all alone in a quiet apartment complex, I have given up on my interest. It’s not that I am afraid but that I am not very keen on being disturbed. My parents have come for a visit and so I have resumed watching this gen...Read more

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Reviewed When Night Is Falling Movie

When Night Is Falling

The dream sequence in the beginning shows a young delicately beautiful woman trapped under a sheet of ice, swimming in icy cold waters. Another woman with mermaid blonde hair appears and tries to engirdle her in the water. The trapped character is Camille who wakes up in her bed being licked ...Read more

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Reviewed Last Night Movie

Last Night (was great!)

The movie chronicles the happenings of just one day primarily. The plot examines the themes of love, marriage, commitment, infidelity, and emotional attachment. Keira Knightley is Joanna Reed who is married to Michael Reed(Sam Worthington). They are a happy couple or are they? The movie begin...Read more

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Reviewed The Clinic Movie

The Clinic

‘The Clinic’ is good cinema with a few technical glitches that can be overlooked. The movie is set some time around 1979, a few years before DNA testing came into existence. It shows the Darwinian survival of the fittest. A couple travels across the country before Christmas to spend time with...Read more

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Black Beauty of a Movie
Black Swan Movie

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Reviewed Black Swan Movie

Black Beauty of a Movie

‘Black Swan’ is a story of an artist driven to insanity by perfection and ambition. There is a saying that art lies in concealing art. The protagonist of the story as well as director Aronofsky does it to perfection. We get a wholesome view of the human psyche, essentially a female psyche. Ni...Read more

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Reviewed Get Smart Movie

Funny and Fun movie

I am going to keep this short and sweet. There have been instances of funny spy movies such as the Spy Kids series, Austin Powers etc. 'Get Smart' also is a spoof comedy based on the special agent theme. It has Dwane 'The Rock' Johnson and Khali. Steve Carell plays Maxwell Smart, a special agent...Read more

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Reviewed Cold Mountain Movie

Cold Mountain- Review

'Cold  Mountain' is the story of star-crossed lovers Ada(Nicole Kidman) and  Inman(Jude Law) set against the backdrop of the American Civil war. The  story is a painful reminder that love does not conquer all and the  damage and loss caused by war can never be made up. The movie drags a lot s...Read more

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Reviewed Chloe Movie

Chloe- Movie Review

Themes involving marital tensions and infidelity has many a times lent a well endowed plot to some well known films-'American Beauty', 'Revolutionary Roads', 'Fatal Attraction', 'Unfaithful' and'Poison Ivy'.'Chloe' also treads the familiar path and marches to glory. Julianne Moore and Liam Ne...Read more

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Reviewed Jennifer's Body Movie

Jennifer...Lucifer

I spend a hot wet afternoon watching Jennifer’s Body. I discovered quite a few things. I discovered that: · - Megan Fox has the ability to make even women drool over her. · - Megan Fox can act…huh! · - An illogical plot can become watchable due to good script, editing, story-telling and...Read more

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Reviewed Dread Movie

Your inner fears

The movie is about three college youngsters who decide to do a project on human phobias. This involves interviewing several people on camera and creating a documentary type footage. How the reality unravelled during the creation of this project slowly seeps into and overpowers the lives of the t...Read more

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The World Unseen Movie

Hi Bhargesh, Lisa's acting is really good in 'The World Unseen' unlike that in 'Water'.