Month: May 2015

San Andreas

.Reading time 6 minutes.

Whenever you hear about a disaster film, you automatically know that it will be all about special effects and zero plot developments and characterization. San Andreas lives up to that expectations very highly. However, where it lacks in a structured plot development, it makes up for it with its astounding special effects. Ray works with […]

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Boyhood

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Boy oh boy. What an experience Boyhood was. I admit I am a little late in watching this movie but am I glad I did or what. Boyhood is a coming of age movie, but it’s very atypical of the usual movies in such genre. Two of my all time favorites coming of age movies […]

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Tanu Weds Manu Returns

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Several years ago, a little unknown movie came out, Tanu Weds Manu, which went on to become a sleeper hit upon release. This month, its sequel came out, and in a very rare case in Bollywood, the sequel surpasses the original. We meet the married couple in London four years after their whirlwind romance. They […]

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Mad Max Fury Road

.Reading time 4 minutes.

“My name is Max. My world is blood and fire.” That my friends, is how we are introduced to this post apocalyptic world where water and fuel are scarce in the vast barren desertlands or, as they say in the movie, wastelands. We know that the movie will be a violent and a gritty one […]

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Piku

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Not to be mixed up with Aamir Khan’s PK, Piku is that small budget movie that came out from nowhere to literally bow(e)l us over with its warmth, simplicity and love. Set in Delhi, the story is focused on Bhasokar Banerji (a wonderful Amitabh Bachchan), a 70 year old senile man with chronic constipation, and […]

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Such was the hype created for this movie, that we were not able to get tickets for the Imax show for the first day. Having seen the movie today, on the 3rd day, I wish I had gone in with zero expectations. The hype that was created for this movie didn’t justify the price of […]

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