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Without Invitations!
Wedding Crashers Movie

is it just me or did this movie look like Shangai Wedding Crashing Knights? Owen seems to be doing the same role over and over - smooth talking, womanising, scruffy mongrel-type, one-liner shooting guy. The movie was bad and implausible- dunno how it made $200+ million. Anyways, hope they d...ont do a sequel with the 2 couples crashing weddings.Read More

Commented on jodihayes's review

Iced!
Ice Age 2-The Meltdown Movie

Checked your review and am looking forward to the movie when it releases in this part of the world. IA2-TM has already made upwards of $100 mill, so I guess there is something in for everybody. Critics never liked sequels in any case. All I can say to them is 'Dont bore us, get to the chorus......' a la Roxette.Read More

Reviewed Coldplay - James Blunt

Back to Bedlam

James Blunt (formerly Blount) has taken some time to be recognised. This album was released in January 2005 in UK, with the first single ''High'' actually being released in October 2004. The follow up single ''Wisemen'' was released in March 2005. But it took the third single from the album -...Read more

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My Top FIVE TV Shows
Five Best Serials of the Year

The Practice definitely was good while it ran. Kinda wondered the road it would take once 'Bobby' left the show, but bringing in 'Shore' was a masterstroke. Missed out on SFU when it started airing on Zee and therefore never got round to viewing it. We are yet to see to see Oz, Rome and Nip/Tu...ck here... Its waiting as usual in this part of the subcontinenet. - AshokRead More

Reviewed The Joshua Tree - U2

The music shall speak....

A lot has been written and said about this album in the last couple of decades that it has been around. Let me give you my version. This album has the following tracks: Where The Streets Have No Name I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for With or Without You Bullet The Blue Sk...Read more

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Reviewed Never Love A Stranger - Harold Robbins

A good read

The problem with Harold Robbins books is that you can't read them in public because the morality police (or your old aunt) may swoop down on you for ''reading sexually explicit literature''. Don't let that deter you from picking this novel up. ''Never Love A Stranger'' is Robbins's first nove...Read more

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Reviewed Swordfish Movie

Would work as a short film...

Gabriel (John Travolta) is an ultra-slick, suave antiterrorist who fights terrorism with terrorism. To fund his next venture he recruits a 'retired' computer hacker (Hugh Jackman) to transfer a $9.5 billion government slush fund into a cluster of secret accounts. Ginger (Halle Berry) is the bait...Read more

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Reviewed Twenty Best English Songs

My favorite 20

Ok, I am no great music critic, but having been listening to songs for the last 3 decades I have built up a distinct interest of my own. The songs listed here are ones that have appealed to me through the times. I couldn't separate the #1 song into three because each is a #1 for me depending whe...Read more

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Reviewed Five Best Serials of the Year

Best of 2005 - US TV in India

Best English TV shows aired on Indian TV in 2005 Scrubs - Comical take on a bunch of interns and doctors in Sacred Heart hospital. Its pretty hilarious. Watch it. Even the janitor is really funny. starring- Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, John C. McGinley Arrested Developmen...Read more

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Reviewed Matrix Revolutions Movie

The answer is out there...

The following review was written on 14 November 2003 for Warner Bros. India. My comments on the movie. I would like to start at the beginning. Please indulge me! At the outset I would like to state that I was overwhelmed by The Matrix when it first appeared in 1999. I have watched it co...Read more

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Commented on sourray's review

The FIVE best...
Ten Best English Movies

Anton, Gladiator.... well, being a fan of Braveheart I can never like Gladiator, since that had a lot of make-believe and CGI going for it. It was a good movie, but Crowe didnt deserve an Oscar for it. He did deserve one for A beautiful Mind, but you can't get too lucky!!! I liked the other ch...oices and nice to see Mickey Rourke's name being mentioned. - AshokRead More

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Gay Man's World
Brokeback Mountain Movie

Good review... and you have the backing of the 4 Golden globes including best director and best movie that the film won this morning. :)

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Free Your Mind
The Matrix Movie

I did not say I was reviewing the movie, but merely correcting the fact that a lot of people seem to think that the movie has its origins in Hinduism. The link by danielte has the complete article and I would love it if you guys could read it. Its illuminating. Thank You.

Reviewed The Matrix Movie

Free Your Mind

6 years later, and The Matrix is my No.3 movie of all time right behind Braveheart and Lethal Weapon (series). Everything about the movie is spectacular. The story line, the neatly paced action, the music and the cast. Most of you reading the review have seen the movie. So, I am not gonna ...Read more

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Reviewed CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Great show!

This is one of the best TV shows of all time. It explores the field of police forensic evidence investigation in Las Vegas by the CSI unit. All about murder - why, how and by whom. That is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. For the last 5 years, CSI has never wavered in its path and has been a c...Read more

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Reviewed The Pretender

One of the best ever!!!

The Pretender was a fresh TV series released in the mid 90's that ran four seasons and spawned two made-for-TV movies. Thank you Star World for the show, and I only wish you would show the movies one day. What's it about? Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) is a Pretender. As a five-year-old in 1963,...Read more

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Reviewed Phone Booth Movie

Good entertainment!

I am amazed how we Indians like to poke fingers at Hollywood movies. I mean, Bollywood is nothing short of a crapfest most of the time, with a few exceptions every year. Anyways, Phone Booth is quite a different movie - production was just over a fortnight and primarily shot in one location. ...Read more

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Reviewed Lethal Weapon Movie

One packs a weapon, the other is one!

1987... The year that changed the way buddy action flicks were made. Lethal Weapon is one of my favorite movies of all time and having seen it first in 1989, I am happy to say that I still enjoy watching it - even last night on HBO. What makes this movie special? Two cops. Glover carrie...Read more

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Reviewed How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2

Welcome back!

I am writing this review after owning this CD for one year. Why so late? Well, I joined this website only a few days ago! I am not going into how great U2 is and stuff, but delve right into the music behind this album. After Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, U2 were on a hiatus taking breaks f...Read more

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Below average
Zinda

'Look Mr. Ashok i agreed with you that the movie is copied with Oldboy. But you also know very well that there are lot of movies copied from hollywood. So, it doesn’t mean that Gupta did some uncommon thing. besides looking on that way you must have seen the other side of bollywood in his mov...ie, means by making theses kind of movies they are giving some variety to indian cinema. Well sunjay dutt again shown him self as the best in serious roles also. Also celeina didn’t got much role to comment. So, before writing the review please don’t spend 48hrs. on that. OK because from now you have started your distrusted members list.’’ From some weirdo called pankajshutsmouth who as of this posting hasn't written a review or comment...Read More