Say No to ‘No Smoking’

After two highly controversial films, although good films, ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Paanch’, Director Anurag Kashyap is back with his next film. ‘No Smoking’ seems to be Anurag’s commercialized attempt at Bollywood. Most people would go to see ‘No Smoking’ especially since it’s made by Anurag Kashyap who is known for his intelligent film making. The [...]

Apocalypto

It is the most violent, savage, cruel yet fascinating and passionate movie which will surely affect you in more than one way. It is a film that stays with you forever all attributed to it’s story telling that is just absolute perfection. There’s a savage magnificence to Apocalypto, with a kind of relentless excitement that [...]

Azhagiya Tamizh Magan

South Indian (Tamil) Movie Review
This is the latest blockbuster movie expectation for this Diwali season among a few other movies. So I decided to check it out. Unfortunately, I saw it last night. Yes, very unfortunately.
Let me start on a positive note by saying Vijay( usually whom I have low acting expectation of) has [...]

Cheeni Kum

In the last 5 years I have increasingly been disliking Hindi movies for two reasons : artificial westernization and lack of any human sensitivity or realism. Cheeni Kum totally broke this dislike streak I am on.
It is one of the most interesting, promising,touching and hilarious movies I’ve seen a long time! This movie is as natural and realistic as [...]

White Light/Black Rain

On the 62nd anniversary of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this movie provides a graphic, unflinching look at the reality of nuclear warfare through first-hand accounts of both survivors and American men who carried out the bombing missions. I saw this movie special on HBO last night and I’m still not out of its effect. [...]

UnderRated….

Edward Norton and Aaron Eckhart are two of my favorites actors and they are highly underrated….which sucks big time. In this current trend of overhype and people becoming popular and getting fame/money just for the sake of it with merely no talent, here are two great actors. Greatly versatile and hence show immense diversity in the kind of movies they do. It [...]

Thank you for Smoking

This movie is an absolutely rare, astute and witty comedy that will make you laugh and think real hard.  It is directed by Jason Reitman based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Buckley. Its a wise, sly, smart cruel yet funny take on spinning of truth and absolute perfection in PR which is [...]

Ratatouille - The Review

Pixar strikes gold yet again with this delightful, thoughtful, touching and meaningful movie with absolutely mind-boggling abundance of creativity in every second of the film. Ratatouille may be the first Pixar movie that is so advanced, so sophisticated, it doesn’t feel like it was made for kids. This film is so much more than a [...]

Ratatouille - All about the food

Food deserves a special mention, an honorary one infact. Two dishes prominently featured in the movie are the “Confit Byaldi” and of course the “Ratatouille”.You can find their recipes here - Confit Byaldi; Ratatouille

“A challenge for the filmmakers was creating computer-generated food animations that would appear delicious. Gourmet chefs (in both the US and France) [...]

Ratatouille - The Story

Rémy (Patton Oswalt) lives in a rat colony in the attic of a French country home with his brother Émile (Peter Sohn) and his father Django (Brian Dennehy). Unlike his kin, Rémy is a gourmet whose keen sense of smell is used by the colony only to detect rat poison in food. But Rémy yearns [...]