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A blog featuring movie reviews from Hollywood, Indian and World cinema. Written by two movie enthusiasts located in the US and India. Includes films of many languages but the primary focus is on English, Hindi and Telugu cinema.
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Speed Racer
The Wachowski Brothers’ follow-up to the Matrix trilogy was possibly the biggest bomb of the summer. It cost $120 million to make and recouped only 75% of that amount worldwide. Though the visua...
Eagle Eye
From executive producer Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks studios comes a psychological thriller that you’d wish you never heard of. A fantasy of epic proportions set in something that looks like ...
Pineapple Express
Written by the team of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg after the success of Superbad, Pineapple Express is a stoner comedy directed by David Gordon Green (George Washington, All The Real Girls). Dale Den...
Burn After Reading
The Coen Brothers’ latest offering is a fun film. Except for the fact that this is the follow-up to an Oscar winning attempt from the directors, this film has a lot going for it. While the plot ...
Homam
Rather than simply dismissing it as “The Departed“ rip-off let me give you a few reasons why you might want to watch this one. First or all, Homam is a more-or-less faithful remake and a...
Rock On!!
When I walked in to watch this film, I half expected to watch a story about the trials and tribulations of a rock band and their ultimate triumph. You will be glad to know that this film isn’t a...
Chandamama
Writer-director Krishna Vamsi’s Chandamama is a family-friendly comedy. Compared to his past successes in a similar genre, Ninne Pelladatha and Murari, this is a lower budget comedy without big ...
Singh is Kinng
There have been quite a few so called “comedies” which have bombed at the box-office this year which made me think that moviegoers have finally gotten tired of those not-so-funny blockbust...
Phoonk
It’s superstition…till it happens to you! I had found that line quite catchy and also a few of Ramu’s recent blog posts/interviews on the subject made me quite eager to check out his...
Baladhoor
Somehow pushing in a “family” in between doesn’t make a “clean family entertainer”. Udayasankar - best known for his blockbuster “Kalisundam Raa” few years ag...
Bachna Ae Haseeno
As Ranbir Kapoor kick-starts the proceedings with his dad’s energetic title song you can’t help but acknowledge again (if you have seen Saawariya) that this guy is absolute star material. ...
God Tussi Great Ho
Salman Khan has this uncanny ability to be a part of B-grade projects which end up lying in the cans for years (needless to mention producer Afzal Khan is one up on him in this issue). If there is one...
Tropic Thunder
Ben Stiller’s new directorial venture is a fun ride featuring a superb cast. The film is about the botched up shooting of a war movie in Vietnam. The film in this film features a five time Oscar...
21
Apparently inspired by a true story, this film is the story of how an MIT professor and his students count cards and win/steal gobs of cash from Vegas casinos. Kevin Spacey plays the professor who dev...
Kathanayakudu
It was hard to screw up a film like Chandramukhi no matter how hard one tried - the plot of that flick was attractive enough to hide the filmmaker’s incompetence. And to his advantage P. Vasu ha...
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Once upon a time, there was a war between humans and some sort of mythical creatures. An unstoppable Golden Army of mechanical soldiers was created to destroy the humans. However, before this decimati...
Ullasanga Utsahanga
If it weren’t for the very alluring hoardings, I wouldn’t have thought of checking this one out. Ullasanga Utsahanga comes nowhere near to justifying its title but still makes a decent wat...
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
Based on the 1864 Jules Verne novel of the same name, this is a 3D film (also playing in 2D) starring Brendan Fraser. Fraser plays Trevor Anderson, a scientist of some sort manning a lab that might so...
Contract
Contract is like an unimpressive debut film coming from a Ram Gopal Varma wannabe. Sadly, the fact is that Ramu himself made it but the good news is that he’s made far worse films before. Still,...
Love Story 2050
Ladies and Gentlemen…..take note - Harry Baweja has set a new benchmark for cinematic realism. Just a couple of instances if you find it hard to believe me. There’s a scene where the time ...
Jaane Tu…ya jaane na
It’s a safe bet to define something as a “genre” when you’ve seen at least 3 films dealing with the same theme. Going by that Jaane Tu…ya jaane na very suitably falls int...
Hancock
I was conflicted before watching Hancock. Who wouldn’t want to watch the undeniably charismatic Will Smith playing a superhero (you even wonder why it didn’t happen earlier). However, the ...
Wanted
What a rush! Sexy. Supercool. Awesome. Funtastic. These may be apt one-word descriptions for this film. Pointless. Also another apt description. Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch) delive...
WALL·E
A small minority of films manage to put a smile on my face from beginning to end. When I say smile, it isn’t due to the funny events on screen but due to the sheer joy that I experience from eve...
The Incredible Hulk
Another superhero film to whet our appetite before we can get to see what we really want to watch this summer, The Dark Knight. The Incredible Hulk isn’t anywhere as entertaining as the biggest ...
Ready
Two back to back hits in a year followed by a couple of major filmmakers imitating your style. What better way to follow it up with another winner! Sreenu Vaitla does just that with his latest offerin...
The Happening
“One film wonder”, “Last nail on Shyamalan’s coffin”, “new material to make Scary Movie 5″, “Someday someone will stop bankrolling Shyamalan’s dum...
Dasavathaaram
The loonnnng wait is finally over and the reviews are out. Some have called it magnificent while others have called it disappointing. It’s actually both - magnificent being the effort and disapp...
Kung Fu Panda
In the near future, we will be inundated with animated films. You will see funny gangster films. Then there will be comical disaster flicks. After that it will be the turn of hilarious scary movies fo...
Sarkar Raj
“How much really can I go wrong with Sarkar Raj???” asked Ram Gopal Varma recently. Despite the statement’s overconfident tone, you would have agreed completely with it (like me) pro...