If 18th century writer Jonathan Swift had watched the silver screen adaptation of his satire Gulliver’s Travels, it would not have come as a surprise if he walked out, shamelessly torn, and pathetically teary.Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black, pitiful) has lots of unexpressed love for travel editor Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet) of a New York daily. [...]
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No One Killed Jessica Hindi Movie Review
Most storytellers entertain, a few enlighten. A scattering number of celluloid visionaries entertain as well as enlighten. Rajkumar Gupta fits into that exceptional variety of film-makers that opens up thought processes about the condition of the homeland without losing the cinematic elements that constitute a film.
Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps Movie Review
What a difference 23 years make. In 1987 when Oliver Stone directed the original Wall Street, his intent was to expose the excesses of the financial sector represented by the likes of his fictional character Gordon Gekko (played with a scheming, conniving charm by Michael Douglas). Gekko was a composite of several Wall Street honchos [...]
Resident Evil 4 AfterLife Movie Review
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SALT Movie Review – Angelina Jolie’s SALT
A man walks into a building and tells security that he is a Russian spy… sounds like the beginning of a joke doesn’t it? Angelina Jolie and the rest of the people responsible for the movie Salt will be hoping that millions of people take the movie seriously enough to buy tickets and go watch [...]
Inception Movie Review
Cast : Leonardo Di Caprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy Director: Christopher Nolan Genre: Sci-fi thriller Inception is visually, aurally and thematically brilliant, something entirely new in cinema, a landmark for Chris Nolan. Christopher Nolan manages to recreate dreams and the feeling of dreams tucked inside a Byzantine plot that [...]