Category: cinema

  • Kuselan – Review

    Here is the Review that I posted as a comment here: http://www.cinereviews.in/kuselan/ A movie that most people will enjoy. Rajini appears in a few crucial scenes and excels in those. Most people would probably know about the story, so I am not going to elaborate on that. In a few words; The Movies is about two…

  • Cinema times

    Been watching a lot of movies and my thoughts: Dream Girls – Some amazing performances, a stunning Beyonce and some stupendous choreography. A friend of mine went there half-asleep and came out fully awake. GURU – For all the expectations, was disappointed. The story was not convincing enough, but have to give it to Abishek…

  • Beauty with brains

    I remember an episode in Seinfield where Newman uses this expression: “Beauty with Brains”. I don’t know if Kim Van Kooten has brains (of course, she does), but she can definitely act like a pro and yeah she is a beauty. If u have got the time, watch the movie Phileine says sorry, a nice…

  • Post No- Well, who cares?

    Memories of a Murder [img] courtesy: http://www.nexbase.net/ One of the perks of living in the western world is that you get to experience a lot of cultures. A few days ago I was casually surfing through the TV channels and was glad that I did, for I saw this very nice Korean thriller Salinui chueok.A…

  • City of God/ Mudhal Mariyadhai

    City of God I can’t say I ever wanted to be a gangster, maybe a lawyer, a scientist, etc…but no not a gangster.Well I ask myself did I ever want to be what I am, I can’t tell.My father is a banker, his father was a temple priest and I guess my ancestors were all…

  • 2 weeks of watching movies while doing other stuff

    Been wanting to write this post for a long time and finally I found the time, am not going to spend hours on this post and so the quality is not going to be good ( as with most posts, I should add).So here is the list of movies that I managed to watch and…

  • Cheran’s ‘Own Signature’

    Autograph – The Movie as I see it — Ok, it’s 2:00 AM in the morning and hence forgive me if what I write is a meaningless blabber. –A great movie! Must view! 5 Stars! Makes you write about it when you would normally be sleeping!Cheran (the director and also the male lead in the…

  • Fos pou svini, To and Malcom

    Fos pou svini, To (2000) aka Fading light is the greek movie, I was talking abt in my earlier post and the actress i was referring to was Viki Volioti . i can sometimes push myself just too hard to remember things.the last two days,I had been fervently searching the web (googling mainly) to get…

  • some more movie stuff

    just finished watching Malena on SBS and enjoyed watching it.the main characters in the film are a 13 year old boy and a very attractive women played by eminently endowed Monica Bellucci .showing the impact that a woman can have even on a young boy.it also shows how rumour and jealousy can play a big…

  • a tamil film in Time’s Top 100

    it is great to know that the Film Nayakan (1987) is in Time Magazines Top 100 movies.I like Kamal Hassan (the actor) and Mani Ratnam (the director), these guys are widely respected in the Indian film industry and also in abroad. it is also interesting to note that most of the top 100 films are…