Babel came out a couple of years ago but I only got to see it this past weekend. I should’ve let sleeping movies lie.
I really did not enjoy the movieor its attempt to tie different threads together and in the end the best I could come up with was, What?. To me, Babel seemed is [...]
Based on a TV series in the 60s, Get Smart is about a secret agent, Maxwell Smart, who tends to bumble his way through spy-hood. In the movie, Smart, played by Steve Carell, is a desk agent who aspires to be a field agent. Circumstances aspire to pair him with Agent 99, played by Anne [...]
Disconnected. That’s the word that came to my mind several times when I was watching the movie. And it summed up the movie for me.
The Happening, from our very own “Night” whose armour isn’t so shining anymore, is a movie that I never felt a connection with. You know how you watch a movie [...]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, for all you non-Indy fans out there, is the much-awaited fourth edition of a highly successful series. Harrison Ford is back as Indiana Jones and his character is older, just like Ford.
This time Jones has to tackle the Russians and find his old friend and [...]
Prince Caspian (plot spoilers in the IMDB version) is the second installment in the movie adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia. I had watched the first installment, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (TLTWTW) more than two years ago and I’d liked it, but I wasn’t sure what to expect with this installment.
I got [...]
Exhibit A: Aamir Khan’s blog
Exhibit B: Big B’s blog
No, I do not plan to read the aforementioned blogs. This is only for the entertainment of my dear readers; all five of them.
And if you want more spice, read Bollywood’s blog wars.
This concludes your entertainment update.
Iron Man is based on a comic book series, another one that I haven’t read. The movie is about a playboy weapons’ manufacturer who is captured by militants and about how his life changes because of that incident.
It was a reasonably-fun movie, good in parts, pretty awesome in others, and not so good in [...]
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is a German movie that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2006. The movie is set in East Germany, a few years before the fall of the Berlin wall.
A writer Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck), a famous actress, [...]
Really Pretty Woman (RPW, a.k.a. Katherine Heigl) goes to a bar with her married sister and gets drunk. RPW picks up GNG (Geeky Not-so-handsome Guy, a.k.a. Seth Rogen) and proceeds to, in what could be described as every GNG’s fantasy, sleep with him. In the drunken love-making, they don’t use “protection” and RPW gets knocked [...]
From Kalpana Sharma’s excellent piece Invisible Women about a documentary called Lakshmi and Me:
We usually wake up to their existence when they don’t turn up for work. And the first response is annoyance, because of the inconvenience caused to us. Many professional women don the title of being superwomen because they manage jobs and homes [...]
