PUSS IN BOOTS – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Latifa Ouaou, Joe M. Aguilar DIRECTOR – CHRIS MILLER WRITER – Charles Perrault (character), Will Davies (story), Brian Lynch, David H. Steinberg, Tom Wheeler (screenplay) Jon Zack VOICE CAST – Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis MUSIC – Henry Jackman With 3D and animation flourishing as it is now, it was but a matter of time that someone picked the much-loved nursery...
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The Dirty Picture – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor DIRECTOR – Milan Luthria WRITER – Rajat Arora CAST – Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor MUSIC – Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani The much-touted ‘The Dirty Picture’ is a Vidya Balan show all the way. Supposedly inspired by the life of the south film industry siren Silk Smitha, and borrowing from the lives of other dancing...
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Desi Boyz – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Vijay Ahuja, Krishika Lulla, Jyoti Deshpande DIRECTOR – Rohit Dhawan WRITER – Rohit Dhawan CAST – Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Chitrangada Singh MUSIC – Pritam The poster screams glitz, glamour and loudness in the entirety of the commercial crass comedy category brand. A beefy John Abraham and goofy Akshay Kumar with half-dressed sizzlingly sensuous Deepika Padukone...
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Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn – I – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Wyck Godfrey, Stephenie Meyer, Karen Rosenfelt DIRECTOR – Bill Condon WRITER – Stephenie Meyer (novel “Breaking Dawn”) Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay) CAST – Robert Pattison, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner MUSIC – Carter Burwell It’s Bella and Edward’s big moment. The dream union they have cried, fought and pined for over three books/films has finally come to be....
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Ides of March: Movie Review
PRODUCER – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brian Oliver DIRECTOR – George Clooney WRITER – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon CAST – George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling, Evan Rachel Wood MUSIC – Alexandre Desplat We don’t need the title to suggest that what was prevalent in 44 BC is relevant today too. Plutarch and Shakespeare’s ‘Ides of...
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Shakal Pe Mat Ja – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Deepak Jalan, Sarita Jalan, Hrishita Bhatt (Co-producer) DIRECTOR – Shubh WRITER – Shubh CAST – Shubh, Pratik Katare, Saurabh Shukla, Raghuveer Yadav, Aamna Shariff, Zakir Hussain MUSIC – Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant, Nitin Kumar Gupta, Yo Yo Honey Singh Mistaken identities in the backdrop of international terrorism is equal to a can of worms. Quite a formula this became...
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IMMORTALS – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Ryan Kavanaugh, Gianni Nunnari, Mark Canton DIRECTOR – Tarsem Singh WRITER – Charley Parlapanides, Vlas Parlapanides CAST – Mickey Rourke, Henry Cavill, Frieda Pinto MUSIC – Trevor Morris The gods have come down to earth in a monumental battle between good and evil. Theseus (Henry Cavill) is caught in this epic war, fuelled by Hyperion’s (Mickey Rourke) brutal ambition of being...
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ROCKSTAR – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Dhillin Mehta DIRECTOR – Imtiaz Ali WRITER – Imtiaz Ali CAST – Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri MUSIC – A R Rahman Immortal love on the wings of musical passions was what Rockstar aiming to be. Undying, soul-stirring, intense love, that sees no right or wrong neither boundaries. Jordan and Heer, from different backgrounds, different worlds find themselves immersed in this kind of...
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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN – THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Peter Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg DIRECTOR – Steven Spielberg WRITER – Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish (screenplay), Hergé (Comic book) VOICE CAST – Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis and Daniel Craig MUSIC – John Williams It is quite a thundering typhoon this one. Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock take on a mad roller coaster ride through continents, high seas...
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Loot – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Suniel Shetty, Shabbir Boxwala DIRECTOR – Rajneesh Thakur CAST – Govinda, Suneil Shetty, Mahaakshay Chakraborty, Shweta Bhardwaj, Jaaved Jaaferi MUSIC – Shravan Sinha, Mika Singh, Shamir Tandon To ask if Bollywood will ever stop churning out tacky, overdone comic capers involving crimes gone wrong and pots of money may be like asking if the sun will ever rise from the West. An assailed,...
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