Ah well, another day another movie. I have a friend who would call this movie subversive not because the protagonist tries to kill richard Nixon, but because the protagonist fails. She says that movies like this are the ones that prop up the system. They lead you to believe that…
The perfect antidote to an intellectual thriller like ‘21 grams’. A movie with more soul per second than anything else I’ve seen from the Coen brothers, and a treatise on restraint. When the Coen brothers make wooden, two-dimemsional cardboards they make them that way not so they can escape…
First things first - watch this movie. I don’t know how much of my enjoyment came from my not knowing anything about this film, but if you know nothing about this film, go watch it first and then read on. The direction/editing is the first thing that…
If a movie must be quirky, let it be like this. The jokes were of the highest quality, even if they were few and far between, making one laugh out loud quite unexpectedly. The story was sweetly sentimental but made with such affection that one cannot but help be taken…
It’s been well known for some time that MBAs shouldn’t really be writing anything apart from reports or presentations. Senior ones should limit themselves to signing checks and filling golf score cards. So why does this continue to happen. Well, alright, he started well with his…
Funky title, funky film, boring as hell. Like watching a Hyundai Santro with “Racing America” stickers and a rear spoiler chunder down the expressway at 65 kmph. Wes Anderson has made a career out of ‘quirky’, and while in a perfect world there should be space…
Irreviewable, more like. Shot in reverse-chronological order, this film deals with a brutal rape and murder and the events that lead up to it, or so the blurb on the jacket will have you believe. In reality, this is an irreparable waste of time. Let us take a moment to…
…and on the same day too! The first was a French film called “A Very Long Engagement” about a girl (Audrey Tatou from Amelie) who goes looking for her fiance, presumed dead during the first world war. As a take on the suffering of the common man…
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=73519 I say, get rid of all of them. At $60 a barrel, they’re far more trouble than they’re worth anyway. I’ve long been of the opinion that car charges are far too low in…
Redemption through wine, words and love. What a great film. Two ex-college roommates meet after years to go on a wine tasting trip through California. Miles is a serious wine aficionado. His friend Jack is a struggling actor about to be married to a rich and beautiful girl and who…