Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis Director: Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg's 'War Horse' is a schmaltzy, sentimental saga of the love between a boy and his horse - boy meets horse, boy loses horse, boy is reunited with horse. It's the classic romantic formula... Although with an equestrian twist. Based on a 1982 children's novel that's also been adapted into a successful stage play, the story opens shortly before...
11:04:02 PM Feb 10, 2012
Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Imran Khan, Boman Irani, Ratna Pathak-Shah Director: Shakun Batra 'Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu', starring Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor, is a competently made romantic-comedy with a predictable story at its core. A straight-laced architect meets a free-spirited hairdresser in Vegas; they get drunk one night, and wake up the next morning to find out they're married. Even as they decide to annul the marriage, the couple...
10:53:37 PM Feb 10, 2012
Cast: Michael B Jordan, Michael Kelly and Alex Russell Director: Josh Trank What would you do if you discovered you'd suddenly acquired Magneto-like powers that allowed you to control things with your mindto move objects around without lifting a finger, to crush a car by simply willing it, to fly in the air even? More than likely you'd have fun with it. It's what three high-school students in 'Chronicle' do,...
11:35:08 PM Feb 03, 2012
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson and Michael Caine Director: Brad Peyton As kiddie-friendly family films go, 'Journey 2: The Mysterious Island' is a harmless, breezy adventure that offers likeable characters and some exciting 3D set-pieces. Just don't go in expecting more. Sequel to the 2008 hit 'Journey To The Centre of The Earth', the new film opens with our hero, the same teenage science-nut Sean (Josh Hutcherson), teaming up with...
11:08:28 PM Feb 03, 2012
Cast: Shriya Saran, Akshaye Khanna, Rajpal Yadav Director: Rumi Jaffrey Setting up the sort of premise that's usually treated with a much lighter hand in the popular television sitcom Office Office, the makers of 'Gali Gali Chor Hai' construct a well-intentioned but labored tale of the common man's vulnerability against day-to-day corruption in society. Akshaye Khanna stars as Bhaarat, a middle-class bank cashier in Bhopal who must pay the price...
10:49:39 PM Feb 03, 2012
Cast: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor Director: Steven Soderbergh Gina Carano, the 29-year-old star of Steven Soderbergh's Haywire is not someone you want to get into an argument with. This mixed martial-arts fighter who punches, kicks, slams, smashes, and whacks her rivals into pulp, was cast by the filmmaker when he reportedly watched her in the ring on sports television. In her first movie outing, Carano plays Mallory Kane, a highly...
10:39:21 PM Jan 27, 2012
Cast: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley Director: Alexander Payne One of the most striking moments in 'The Descendants' is when George Clooney's character Matt King stumbles onto the secret that his wife has been cheating on him. He puts on a pair of floppy loafers, then runs clumsily over to their friends' home in his neighbourhood in Hawaii. Matt is frantically seeking answers - who is the other man? Since when...
10:33:25 PM Jan 27, 2012
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt and Rishi Kapoor Director: Karan Malhotra Debutant director Karan Malhotra's re-telling of Mukul Anand's 1990 vendetta movie 'Agneepath' is a glossy, well-acted production. Compared to recent 'mass entertainers' that tend to lazily sacrifice story and plot for retro-style action and star appeal, this remake rolls along like a well-oiled machine. And yet, after watching three hours of stabbing, gunfire, blasts, and hand-to-hand fighting,...
10:31:23 PM Jan 27, 2012
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts Director: Clint Eastwood Regarded as one of the most controversial figures in recent US history, the late 'J Edgar' Hoover gets shortchanged with a surprisingly dull biopic from director Clint Eastwood, who appears to have come up with a new cure for insomnia with this deathly boring epic. 'J Edgar' stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Hoover, but the actor plays him with a distracting...
11:36:39 PM Jan 20, 2012
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox Director: Ralph Fiennes Long regarded as one of the most complex, and least accessible of Shakespeare's plays, 'Coriolanus' makes its way to the screen as an intense, slam-bang action movie that marks Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut. The film is set in "a place calling itself Rome" (but shot against the stark landscape of Belgrade and the Serbian countryside), with Fiennes himself taking the...
11:32:41 PM Jan 20, 2012
Cast: James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy Directors: Sarah Smith, Barry Cook Whether you ever believed in Santa Claus or not, you'll find Arthur Christmas is a charming animation film about how Santa manages to deliver so many presents around the world in one single night. The movie suggests that in a high-tech factory buried deep in the North Pole, an army of elves works tirelessly to wrap each...
05:57:05 PM Jan 13, 2012
Cast: Shiney Ahuja, Sayali Bhagat, Julia Bliss, Tej Sapru, Deep Raj Rana, Sukhwinder Singh Chahal, Tabrez Khan, Bijayata Pradhan Director: Puja Jatinder Bedi Making a film, unlike writing a novel or making a painting, is a collaborative effort that involves a team of people working together. Which is why, when a really bad film comes along, you have to ask: Didn't anyone involved in making this notice just how wrong...
05:35:47 PM Jan 13, 2012
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella Director: Chris Gorak Tired of wreaking havoc in New York and Los Angeles (really, how many more CGI shots must we see of a deserted Times Square or a ravaged Staples Center?), aliens set their sights on Moscow in 'The Darkest Hour', a new end-of-the-world thriller that's as much fun to watch as a 90-minute ultrasound video. Emile Hirsch and Max Minghella play...
11:01:03 PM Jan 06, 2012
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sikander Kher, Bobby Deol, Bipasha Basu, Sonam Kapoor Director: Abbas Mastan There's an uncomfortable truth about Abbas-Mustan's latest film 'Players' that few critics will admit to " it's not all bad! This fast-paced khichdi of two previous 'Italian Job' movies and the director duo's own last film 'Race' has so much going on all at once that you're left with little time to dwell...
10:48:22 PM Jan 06, 2012
This week on Now Showing, Rajeev Masand reviews 'Don 2' and 'One Day'. ...
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