ZIFT
Watchable. Starts like a typical prison movie but then the frequently told allegories get more interesting and the twists of action better.
RENE
Recommended. Perfectly explains how we get perpetual criminal re-offenders.
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE
Recommended. Wolverine has never been my fave character but "X-Men" don't disappoint. Wait for Weapon XI.
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Monday 27 April 2009
BAMBI
Watchable. Disney lovely as ever but films about growing up and about animals make me terribly homesick.
FREQENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT TIME TRAVEL
Recommended. A low-budget science fiction comedy full of brave new ideas.
GUNESI GORDUM
Walked out. A family in a remote village in eastern Turkey strives to survive where every boy grows up to become either a soldier or a guerilla. Then they move to Istanbul and things aren't any more cheerful or action faster.
OUTLANDER
Walked out. A standard alien hunk fights with a standard monster, loses his standard spaceship and ends up in a standard Iron Age village full of standard macho warriors and standard beautiful maidens.
SHIFTY
Recommended. A fascinating account of meaningful 24 hours in the life of a middle class drug dealer and people around him. Well acted and shot, realistic and insightful. I loved the line about it being a good time to do drugs with the government being so busy with the war on terror that no one cares about drugs any more.
Watchable. Disney lovely as ever but films about growing up and about animals make me terribly homesick.
FREQENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT TIME TRAVEL
Recommended. A low-budget science fiction comedy full of brave new ideas.
GUNESI GORDUM
Walked out. A family in a remote village in eastern Turkey strives to survive where every boy grows up to become either a soldier or a guerilla. Then they move to Istanbul and things aren't any more cheerful or action faster.
OUTLANDER
Walked out. A standard alien hunk fights with a standard monster, loses his standard spaceship and ends up in a standard Iron Age village full of standard macho warriors and standard beautiful maidens.
SHIFTY
Recommended. A fascinating account of meaningful 24 hours in the life of a middle class drug dealer and people around him. Well acted and shot, realistic and insightful. I loved the line about it being a good time to do drugs with the government being so busy with the war on terror that no one cares about drugs any more.
Friday 24 April 2009
Wednesday 22 April 2009
17 AGAIN
Watchable. First you have a scene reminiscent of "High School Musical 3", from which I had walked out, then a loser in his 30s, then the same loser being 17 and about half hour in the film it finally starts being funny.
I LOVE YOU MAN
Walked out. How can such low and vulgar jokes be found funny by anyone?
FAST AND FURIOUS
Walked out. Ugly people chasing each other or being chased with mediocre music in the background.
LAT DEN RATTE KOMMA IN (LET THE RIGHT ONE IN)
Watchable. "Twilight" it isn't. Nothing romantic or alluring, just crude and raw gore with scenes slowly, I repeat, slowly developing plot in between but the whole story is compelling, impossible to stop watching without knowing how it ends.
FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING
Watchable. Good action, an intriguing story of a secret operative but doesn't get you close to the characters, you just don't care why they do things they do.
DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION
Walked out. I've seen the scenes and heard the lines in several other movies.
I've just read that they they are making a Bollywood version of "21" entitled "Teen Patti". I can't wait to see it:)
Watchable. First you have a scene reminiscent of "High School Musical 3", from which I had walked out, then a loser in his 30s, then the same loser being 17 and about half hour in the film it finally starts being funny.
I LOVE YOU MAN
Walked out. How can such low and vulgar jokes be found funny by anyone?
FAST AND FURIOUS
Walked out. Ugly people chasing each other or being chased with mediocre music in the background.
LAT DEN RATTE KOMMA IN (LET THE RIGHT ONE IN)
Watchable. "Twilight" it isn't. Nothing romantic or alluring, just crude and raw gore with scenes slowly, I repeat, slowly developing plot in between but the whole story is compelling, impossible to stop watching without knowing how it ends.
FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING
Watchable. Good action, an intriguing story of a secret operative but doesn't get you close to the characters, you just don't care why they do things they do.
DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION
Walked out. I've seen the scenes and heard the lines in several other movies.
I've just read that they they are making a Bollywood version of "21" entitled "Teen Patti". I can't wait to see it:)
Tuesday 14 April 2009
MONSTERS VS ALIENS 3D
Watchable. Nice graphics, especially the opening view of the outer space. Other than that nothing new, could be funnier too.
8 X 10 TASVEER
Watchable. It doesn't get straight to each point but once it does it keeps you hooked.
TERA MERA KI RISHTA
Watchable. Hilarious most of the time, the sad romantic bits a bit too long.
RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
Recommended. Like a good science fiction movie from the 80s, with brilliant lines full of humour. Dwayne Johnson appears to have learned how to act. The blue-eyed blonde boy playing Seth is irresistably cute.
Watchable. Nice graphics, especially the opening view of the outer space. Other than that nothing new, could be funnier too.
8 X 10 TASVEER
Watchable. It doesn't get straight to each point but once it does it keeps you hooked.
TERA MERA KI RISHTA
Watchable. Hilarious most of the time, the sad romantic bits a bit too long.
RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
Recommended. Like a good science fiction movie from the 80s, with brilliant lines full of humour. Dwayne Johnson appears to have learned how to act. The blue-eyed blonde boy playing Seth is irresistably cute.
Thursday 9 April 2009
Wednesday 8 April 2009
Tuesday 7 April 2009
TWO LOVERS
Walked out. It's about a love triangle of boring and ugly people.
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT
Recommended. Finally a properly scary horror + based on a true story + the spookiest thing is not the ghost tale, it's what the actual researchers tried to do.
PAUL BLART: MALL COP
Walked out. If only it were at least a little bit funny...
Walked out. It's about a love triangle of boring and ugly people.
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT
Recommended. Finally a properly scary horror + based on a true story + the spookiest thing is not the ghost tale, it's what the actual researchers tried to do.
PAUL BLART: MALL COP
Walked out. If only it were at least a little bit funny...
Sunday 5 April 2009
Friday 3 April 2009
THE DAMNED UNITED
Walked out. It was supposed to be about football management but there's little management in it and even less football.
THE BOAT THAT ROCKED
Watchable. An interesting story of the lives of radio pirates and their governmental persecutors but rarely funny and the pirates are a bunch of freaking weirdoes - hardly attractive.
LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS
Walked out. Neither scary nor funny, quite bland in total.
Walked out. It was supposed to be about football management but there's little management in it and even less football.
THE BOAT THAT ROCKED
Watchable. An interesting story of the lives of radio pirates and their governmental persecutors but rarely funny and the pirates are a bunch of freaking weirdoes - hardly attractive.
LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS
Walked out. Neither scary nor funny, quite bland in total.
Wednesday 1 April 2009
ENTRE LES MURS (THE CLASS)
Recommended. Spotless. The film brings you to the subjects, both students and teachers, as close as it gets. I never expected I would enjoy a film about a school so much. But this one is more about decision making, difficult choices and responsibility. A real treat.
TRAITOR
Walked out. Movies about terrorism spring up like mushroom after rain. This one is painfully full of stereotypes, bad acting and FBI surrogating CIA in Yemen.
AA DEKHEN ZARA
Recommended. What a ride! No wonder Cineworld's "Unlimited" magazine compares it to "Race". Jehangir Surti's directoral debut is as mind-blowing as Aronofsky's "Pi" was in 1998.
Recommended. Spotless. The film brings you to the subjects, both students and teachers, as close as it gets. I never expected I would enjoy a film about a school so much. But this one is more about decision making, difficult choices and responsibility. A real treat.
TRAITOR
Walked out. Movies about terrorism spring up like mushroom after rain. This one is painfully full of stereotypes, bad acting and FBI surrogating CIA in Yemen.
AA DEKHEN ZARA
Recommended. What a ride! No wonder Cineworld's "Unlimited" magazine compares it to "Race". Jehangir Surti's directoral debut is as mind-blowing as Aronofsky's "Pi" was in 1998.
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