Cast: Ajay Devgn, Kanagana Ranaut, Anil Kapoor, Zayed Khan, Sameera Reddy, Boman Irani Director: Priyadarshan Perhaps it's appropriate that Priyadarshan no longer refers to himself as director of his films, choosing instead to go with the credit "Filmed by Priyadarshan". The extent of his involvement on 'Tezz' for one, hardly qualifies as anything more than mere 'filming', given that it's an unapologetic rip-off of the popular Japanese film, 'The Bullet...
11:00 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Wes Bentley, Donald Sutherland Director: Gary Ross 24 teenagers are packed off to the woods and encouraged to go on a killing spree against each other, while the rest of the world watches the action like a sporting event on giant television screens Based on the bestselling young-adult novel by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games is a...
11:37 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Ram Kapoor, Adil Hussain, Shahbaaz Khan, Prem Chopra, Gulshan Grover, Dhritiman Chatterjee Director: Sriram Raghavan The most gobsmacking brilliant portion of Agent Vinod is a roughly 3-minute shootout scene set in a seedy East European motel. Even as bullets fly in the lobby between RAW-agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) and deadly assassins hot on his trail, a love ballad drowns out the gunshots. The...
10:59 PM, Mar 23, 2012
This week Rajeev Masand reviews Roopa Ganguly-starrer 'Chaurahen' and 'This Means War'. ...
10:14 AM, Mar 17, 2012
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy Director: McG This Means War is a formulaic, predictable action-rom-com that'll win no points for originality, but it's all so light and frothy and inoffensive that, chances are, you won't get too bored. The film stars Chris Pine and Tom Hardy as deadly CIA agents and best friends, who look and dress like male models, and live in fancy apartments straight out of...
10:57 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Cast: Victor Banerjee, Roopa Ganguly, Ankur Khanna, Soha Ali Khan, Karthik Kumar, Shayan Munshi and Zeenat Aman Director: Rajshree Ojha A housewife in Kolkata suffers in silence as her husband starts an affair with a much younger woman. A young man visits his parents home in Kochi after his brother is killed at war. And a well-to-do Parsi boy in Mumbai must bury the ghosts of his past in order...
10:40 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Kulraj Randhawa, Anupam Kher, Om Puri Director: Samir Karnik In the good ol' days, audiences in some places were known to rip cinema seats, and to throw things at the screen if they were offended by the film they were watching. Beware, multiplex owners; that tradition is likely to be revived this week with 'Chaar Din Ki Chandni'. This appalling comedy, directed by Yamla Pagla Deewana's Samir...
11:13 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe Director: Andrew Stanton It's hard to believe that the same filmmaker who made us fall in love with a waste-recycling robot is responsible for the over-long, humourless adventure that is 'John Carter'. Directed by animation veteran Andrew Stanton (of Wall-E and Finding Nemo), this expensive, live-action film is based on a series of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 100-year-old fantasy-romance novels, and features Taylor Kitsch...
11:10 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill Director: Michael Sucsy 'The Vow', starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, is the kind of mushy movie that'll appeal to anyone who still gets teary-eyed watching The Notebook for the third time. Tatum and McAdams play a bohemian young married couple, who get into an accident on a snowy Chicago night. He's all right, but she wakes up from a coma with the...
11:07 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Cast: Ali Zafar, Aditi Rao Hydari Direction: Anu Menon If you'll believe that a couple can fall hopelessly in love after spending only three days together in seven years, perhaps you'll buy the many contrivances of 'London Paris New York'. Spoilt rich kid Nikhil (Ali Zafar) and philosophy-spouting Lalitha (Aditi Rao Hydari) meet while disembarking from a flight at Heathrow and proceed to spend the day together exploring London, before...
11:44 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Cast: Irrfan, Mahie Gill, Vipin Sharma Direction: Tigmanshu Dhulia With his faultless performance as a famed athlete who turns into a feared dacoit in director Tigmanshu Dhulia's 'Paan Singh Tomar', Irrfan Khan offers us a reminder of his blazing versatility. Introduced to us as a reed-thin jawaan with an insatiable appetite for food, Tomar is quickly included in the army's sports team, when he shows he can sprint across town...
11:40 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E Grant Director: Phyllida Lloyd It's hard to find fault in Meryl Streep's extraordinary performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 'The Iron Lady', but it's a shame the film itself has little of interest to say about either the woman, or the period of British history she shaped. Streep nails the accent, and finds emotional depth in her portrayal of the...
11:37 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Cast: Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock Director: Stephen Daldry Some stories are genuinely moving, others so shamelessly manipulative that they come off as crass. 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close', directed by Stephen Daldry, falls somewhere in between. Adapted from a polarizing novel, the film focuses on 11-year-old Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), a socially awkward but remarkably intelligent boy, whose father (Tom Hanks) died in the World Trade Center attacks....
11:35 PM, Mar 02, 2012
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