Vaastu ? What Vaastu ?

Tennis balls hang in mid air, a banyan tree has more load than it can bear. Mix together 'The Shining', 'Evil Dead', 'Poltergeist', 'Dawn of the Dead' with a da...read more

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Visual Impact

This movie is a good example of how pure star power can lift a film's fortune's. That Denzil Washington is one the biggest star's in Hollywood is demonstrated i...read more

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A little town not far from here

It took me 3 days to watch this movie with a running time of 177 minutes. But I am glad I stuck it out cos it did eventually pay off in the end. I hope some yea...read more

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Entertaining Fare

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17. Truth is beautiful, without do...read more

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Gripping

'Touching the Void' is a type of film which in Hollywood is termed as pseudo-documentary. It has the real life characters narrating their story on screen while ...read more

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Unusually good

Michael Mann has made some memorable movies in the past which include 'The Last of the Mohicans', the vastly underrated 'Heat', the powerful 'The Insider' and m...read more

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Sweet Letdown

''All we have to do now is take these lies and make them true ... somehow'' Freedom 90 - George Michael Since the abosolutely astonishing film 'The Sixth Sense'...read more

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Maqbool

In 'Maqbool', Vishal Bharadwaj brings to the screen Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' Macbeth is the last of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, the others being Hamlet...read more

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Clever

Mark Haddon, the author of this book, has worked with autistic individuals. The view he presents of an autistic individual's mind in probably as accurate as a p...read more

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Spartan

Spar·tan ( P ) Pronunciation Key (spärtn) adj.

1. Of or relating to Sparta or its people.
2. Also spartan

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Extremely forgettable

I try not to miss any of Govind Nihalani's movies, but unfortuantely ever since he has joined the mainstream, it seems that he is all at sea about what he is su...read more

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Recipe for a Potboiler

Ingredients 2 Action Heros; 1 to die, 1 to live (Akkie and Anna) 1 Over the hill hero brought back for front benchers (Shotgun) 1 Comedian for toilet humour (Pa...read more

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O Yuva Yuva

All Mani Ratnam films have two trademarks. One, his films are technically superior to anything that comes out of Bollywood. Two, his extracts the best performan...read more

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Could have been better

When I joined MS, one of my first reviews was on 'Ten Best Adapted Screenplays'. I would include this film in that list (which stopped at 7) but with some reser...read more

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A Vegas tale

Bernie Lootz (William H Macy) is a 'cooler', a fount of bad luck. He works on the floor of the Shangri-La casino. All he has to do is brush the sleeve of anyone...read more

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Poignant

poign·ant adj. keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; An old womand gently braids her granddaughters hair while she narrates her a story, only to chop...read more

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Simply Brilliant

To the satisfying appetizer Vol 1 is, Quentin Tarantino serves up a excellent main course with Vol 2. Such that one can walk away without a craving for dessert ...read more

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Last Nail in the coffin

There are three popular authors whose novels I never miss. Archer, Forsyth and Grisham. Well to be truthful I have missed only one book of each. Grisham made an...read more

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Good but not Great

I could not catch Kill Bill Vol 1 on the big screen and eagerly waited for the DVD release. Quentin Tarantino has progressed to a level where his name can be us...read more

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Riveting

This book, also made into a film *ing Ben Kingsley & Jennifer Connelly (which I will be reviewing next week) revolves around three characters. Kathy Nicolo, rec...read more

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