Archive for December 2008
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Ghajini – Aamir Khan – Movie of 2008
Ghajini – the film is regarded as the most awaited Bollywood movie of 2008, may release by the last week of this December 25, provided everything goes fine. The film shooting was started in month of May and the bald style of Aamir Khan is highlight of its [...]
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Based on the award-winning book by Bernhard Schlink, The Reader is an extraordinary, provocative and controversial story set in post-World War II Germany. It starts when 15-year-old Michael (David Kross) becomes ill with scarlet fever and is helped home by sympathetic woman named Hanna (Kate Winslet). After his recovery, he returns to thank her [...]
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It’s Christmas in Chicago and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez clan are coming home to spend the holidays at the their parent’s house. But Mom (Elizabeth Pena) has a surprise in store for the grown siblings: She is divorcing their father (Alfred Molina) right after the tree is taken down. This doesn’t sit well [...]
It’s very rare for another actor to steal the thunder right from under Shahrukh Khan’s nose. Even though the script is the winner here, newcomer Anushka Sharma walks off with an applause-worthy performance. It’s difficult to believe that this is her debut. RAB NE BANA DI JODI will be spoken more for the spunk in [...]
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After surviving the running, jumping, shooting and chasing from the first two Transporters, Frank Martin (Statham) once again finds himself mixed up in mayhem. The latest “package” he is to deliver consists of Valentina (Natalya Rudakova), the kidnapped daughter of a powerful European politician (Jeroen Krabbe), who is being blackmailed by bad guys. Unless Frank [...]
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In 1977, Harvey Milk (Penn) was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. While this would not normally be an earth-shattering phenomenon, in this case, Milk became the first out-of-the-closet gay person to win a major public office in the United States — and was assassinated in 1978, along with San Francisco Mayor George [...]
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Australia is like no other movie this year — or even this century, for that matter. It’s heart and soul live in conjuring up memories of the kind of epic movie they just don’t make anymore. The incomparable Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) proves nobody does this kind of thing better. The story begins just at [...]
It’s not exactly shocking or path-breaking, the story about a man falling for his brother’s fiancée—over 20 years ago, there was the sensitively made Panchvati had the same plot, only Onir’s Sorry Bhai is light (not enough) and shallow (very).
Siddharath (Sharman Joshi) is supposed to be a scientist, who is working on a project to [...]
Yuvvraaj Movie Review
Subhash Ghai’s YUVVRAAJ is a little bit of HERO and a little bit of RAM LAKHAN. There’s a love story; there’s also the tale of three brothers and the evil mama and his family who have their eyes on the family inheritance. In short, there’s nothing new, script wise, but the way it [...]