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 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 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 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 PM, Feb 03, 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 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 PM, Jan 20, 2012
In this episode of Now Showing, Rajeev Masand reviews 'Ghost' and 'Arthur Christmas'. ...
12:20 PM, Jan 14, 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 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 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 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess and Patricia Clarkson Director: Lone Scherfig One Day, based on a best-selling romantic novel by David Nicholls, is a dreadfully dull film that's been adapted for the screen by the author himself! Anne Hathaway stars as Emma, and Jim Sturgess as Dex, two students who wind up together on the night of their graduation in 1988. They don't become lovers, but they do become lifelong...
11:59 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Om Puri and Boman Irani Director: Farhan Akhtar In his interviews leading up to the release of Don 2, director Farhan Akhtar has repeatedly said that viewers seeking anything other than pure thrills and entertainment from this film are likely to be disappointed. Going in with strictly those expectations, I'm sorry to report I still came away feeling cheated. For the film's plot -...
11:30 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton Director: Brad Bird Midway through 'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol', Tom Cruise's character, secret agent Ethan Hunt is seen scaling Dubai's 2,700-foot Burj Khalifa with nothing more than a pair of sticky gloves. Anyone suffering from a fear of heights would be advised to shut their eyes during this breathtaking but also vertigo-inducing sequence that's been filmed in IMAX, and is believed to be...
11:41 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Cast: Vinay Pathak, Neha Dhupia Director: Saurabh Shukla For possibly the nth time in recent memory, Vinay Pathak returns to play the everyman in director Saurabh Shukla's slice-of-life drama 'Pappu Can't Dance Saala', which flirts with the issue of migrants struggling to make it in Mumbai. Pathak's character Vidyadhar arrives from Benares when he lands a job as a medical representative here. Almost immediately he finds it hard to wrap...
11:37 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Cast: Sunny Gill, Simran Kaur Mundi, Achint Kaur, Alyy Khan Director: Pawan Gill For love or money " that's the age-old problem rearing its head in 'Jo Hum Chahein', an urban romance starring newcomers Sunny Gill and Simran Mundi. On the surface, this film reminds you of the Shah Rukh Khan hit Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, with its theme of a hero conflicted by his ambition into sacrificing his values....
11:33 PM, Dec 16, 2011
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