This week Rajeev Masand reviews Anil Kapoor-starrer 'Tezz' and the much awaited superhero film 'The Avengers'. ...
11:49 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Cast: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller If movies were people, '21 Jump Street' would be the younger brother of 'The Hangover', both belonging to the same family of potty-mouthed comedies that are undeniably hilarious. But where 'The Hangover' was blazingly original and thrived on its outrageousness, this one takes a familiar set-up and turns it on its head with perceptive writing. Jonah Hill and...
11:53 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson Director: Peter Berg If the only yardstick you're meant to use while judging an action blockbuster is the number of gigantic explosions it contains, then Battleship, from Hancock director Peter Berg, belongs right up there with the big boys. Berg borrows many a trope from Michael Bay for this loud, dumb actioner that could just as easily work with the...
12:33 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Amita Pathak, Ashok Pathak, Mohan Kapoor Director: Supavitra Babul It's hard to say for sure if it's his rakish charm or the lure of that video camera he wields that has the townsfolk seduced in 'Bittoo Boss'. A mini hero of sorts in his native Anandpur, no wedding is complete without his presence. Each time he swaggers into a shaadi, often hours late, he raises the spirits...
12:02 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Gloria Stuart, Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton Director: James Cameron Watching Titanic on the big screen again, I felt a surge of nostalgia sweep through me. Great movies have a timeless quality to them, and Titanic is nothing if not a great movie. Set against a historical event whose outcome we already knew (the ship sinks!), James Cameron delivered an irresistible love story between...
11:58 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Cast: Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Ritesh Deshmukh, Shreyas Talpade, Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Boman Irani, Chunky Pandey, Johnny Lever, Asin, Jacqueline Fernandes, Zarine Khan, Shahzahn Padamsee, Ranjeet Director: Sajid Khan It's ironic that the funniest joke in Housefull 2 should appear after the film has ended. In the outtakes during the closing credits sequence (if youre brave enough to still be watching!), Akshay Kumar brings Asin to meet...
11:47 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Cast: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Rosamund Pike Director: Jonathan Liebesman 'Wrath of the Titans' has better action set-pieces and uses special effects a little more judiciously than 2010's campy 'Clash of the Titans'. The film's plot however, is still a hoot, and exists only to provide some catch-your-breath moments in the middle of all that wall-to-wall action. What this sequel is missing clearly is the cheesy sensibility of the earlier...
11:13 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Cast: Kunal Khemu, Amrita Puri, Manish Chaudhary Director: Vishal Mahadkar 'Blood Money' stars Kunal Khemu as an MBA graduate who arrives in Cape Town with his wife (played by Amrita Puri of 'Aisha'), where he's accepted a job at a major diamond-trading firm. Even before he can change out of the clothes he flew in wearing, he's handed over the keys to a plush home, a swanky car, and some...
11:03 PM, Mar 30, 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
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
This week Rajeev Masand reviews Vidya Balan-starrer 'Kahaani', 'Chaar Din Ki Chandni' and 'John Carter'. ...
03:10 PM, Mar 10, 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
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