Another movie I watched a little late: 12 Years a Slave. An Oscar winning movie: Best Movie, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay, 12 Years a Slave was indeed a brilliant movie: intense, realistic, […]
Tag: Real Life
Wadjda
A Saudi movie secretly shot entirely in the city of Riyadh by a female director. That should be enticing enough to make you watch this. Wadjda had made headlines all over the world in 2013 […]
Zinda Bhaag
A brilliant Pakistani movie (and it’s set in my hometown of Lahore!) Great acting, humor, story, cinematography et al. No wonder it’s been winning awards (though I don’t think it will win the Oscar for […]
Closer
I have probably seen the most intense, most reality based movie based on relationships. I have seen it before, but I watched it again last night because I think it speaks to me on different […]
Blood Diamond
Having just seen Blood Diamond last night, my conscience has been shaken and stirred. I knew it would be about the diamond trade, but I had little idea of how much brutality, savagery and deaths […]
Water
Water is the third movie in the trilogy by Deepa Mehta. The first two movies were Fire and Earth. Fire was very controversial upon its release as it portrayed an intimate relationship between two females […]
Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek was nearly an unheard of film. It’s an Australian film to say the least, so why pay attention to it? I hadn’t heard of this movie till I heard how it has been […]
Black
Imagine a world where you cannot see. You are immersed in total darkness. Then imagine you cannot hear anything; you are stone deaf. Imagine you were born this way. What would life be like for […]
The Woodsman
The Woodsman stars Kevin Bacon and his real-life wife Kyra Sedgwick. Bacon plays a paedophile that has been released from jail after 12 years. He starts work at a timber factory and is given a […]
The Namesake
The Namesake is based on a great, emotional novel of the same name by Jhumpa Lahiri. Like all over immigrants coming to the United States to fit in, The Namesake tackles upon the idea of […]
