Answering the question “where is God?” with “everywhere and nowhere” is usually a bit of a let-down, so it’s a sign of just how skilled a film-maker Terrance Malick (The Thin Red Line, Badlands) is that he do [...]
After a highly effective smutty wink of an ad campaign, one could be forgiven for thinking that the “bad” in “Bad Teacher” refers to a public school educator who fools around with her students. A lot of adolescent [...]
After the third X-Men movie collapsed into visual and narrative chaos, the franchise seemed dead and buried not so. Prequels are usually as disastrous as sequels, but this one is fresh and imaginative and offers real promise for get [...]
Cross-breeding pet antics from Ace Ventura with an absent-dad storyline from Liar Liar, this Jim Carrey and flippered-friends flick waddles unevenly through family comedy territory. Despite humor that relies too heavily on bird farting an [...]
The trailer for Jim Carrey's new family film, “Mr. Popper's Penguins,” looked awful, leading some to expect the worst. With its impending release, it seems entering with low expectations can be the best way to see a fi [...]
"Khel mein haarna ya jeetna maaine nahin rakhta, aisa usi nein kaha hoga jo hara ho. Khelna sirf jeetne ke liye hona chahiye, " quips Tabrez aka Tez (Gautam Sharma) while talking to Shroff (Kay Kay Menon) in a scene from the ava [...]
If there’s one thing Australians know how to do, it’s crime. Wait, that should have read, “if there’s one thing Australians know how to do on the big screen, it’s crime”. But this nation’s ability [...]
J.J. Abrams, a household name in the film industry seems like he has a long list of movie credits, but it's actually a rather small list. I knew J.J. Abrams directed the last Star Trek movie, and was behind the TV show Lost. I figured [...]
If there was one thing that struck me as I left the cinema after seeing the sublime Bridesmaids, it was "Thank god, finally a film that really depicts female friendship". Finally a film that shows how women interact with one ano [...]
Reading the press notes for writer/director Joe Cornish's feature debut, Attack the Block, and learning how the project came together is almost as much fun as watching the film itself. In very brief terms, the idea came to him after b [...]
And so it continues. It seems my relationship with the films of director Terrence Malick will never be a harmonious one. Every time he releases a new film I want to absolutely love it, but each and every single time I walk away feeling em [...]
Terence Malick’s audacious masterwork of cinematic poetry and extraordinary ideas is not for moviegoers who like speed, plain narrative or clearly marked arcs and chapters. It is not for those with short attention span [...]
There was a media brouhaha recently over a lawsuit filed by tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill focusing on the tat that The Hangover Part II character Stu wakes up with after a disremembered wild night in Bangkok. Whitmill claimed [...]
Remember Return to Oz, the sequel to The Wizard of Oz? The Hangover: Part II is a lot like that. It didn't need to be made, it makes the characters from the first film look like quantifiable douche-pagodas, and, inexplicably, it's [...]