Dark Knight- Sober and somber!
“He is the hero Gotham deserves. But not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero…He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector…a DARK KNIGHT”
This is the epilogue of the Christian Bale starrer ‘Dark Knight’, directed by Christopher Nolan, a […]
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Leatherheads-A Comic Craftsmanship!
A sunny day in the early 1920s. A British countryside football stadium. Players are warming up and the spectators are slowly coming in. The band has just begun to play music with their drums and trumpet. Noise all over. A team captain asks his new player, ‘Hey Kid, what position you play in […]
Guillermo del Toro wrote and directed this “copy-cat crime” of a movie. As imitation is alleged to be flattering, George Lucas, Bryan Singer and Peter Jackson may want to send del Toro a “Thank You” card for this heaping homage to their work. It is true that all directors learn from the past masters, but usually the […]
The “Journey” for me was a bit too pedestrian. Anita Briem was a pleasant surprise. Brendan Fraser is very good at adventure stories generally, but he doesn’t seem to have acquired a credible demonstration of sorrow, as is readily perceivable in the instance of his discovery of his brother’s gravesite at the center of the […]
Brain voyage!
Distorted memories, deja vu on high gear and a confused, struggling hero. Michel Gondry’s movie takes us into our inner sanctum and shows that is the very place where one can live one’s finest hour.
There are only a few movies, which could speak to people’s hearts intimately without being corny. Among the […]
The shining- On the ‘axe’s’ edge!
Stanley Kubrick demonstrates how horror and terror can be carved on a screen, in his 1980 film The Shining. Based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King ‘The Shining’ proves to be a horror Avant-garde. At the same time it vividly states that blood and gore which […]
Scarface- A flamboyant tragedy!
A year after ‘Blow Out’, Brian De Palma loosely remakes the 1932 film of the same name and this time his script is penned by Oliver Stone. Al Pacino and Steven Bauer play the leads of this passionate but powerful movie. With a historical background, the life of Tony Montana, a […]