Film: ‘Fast & Furious
6’; Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Gina Carano, Luke
Evans, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang,
Ludacris and Gal Gadot; Director: Justin Lin.
Rating:
‘Fast & Furious 6’ evokes diverse
reactions. With a wafer-thin plot and a lot of sleek action, ‘Fast and
Furious 6’ is definitely a test of patience. Reason? The audience is
thrown into the conflict of the story with great speed and velocity.
Chances are that if you blink, you may miss the crux of the story and
worst is that if you are not an ‘F&F’ fan, then you`d definitely be
lost in the rigmarole...
Friday, 24 May 2013
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
0 Steven Spielberg's Lincoln
Emancipator?: Lincoln, featuring Daniel
Day-Lewis, is wowing critics, but historians say the film gives the 16th
President far too much credit for his role in ending slavery
The film currently taking America by
storm begins with a black Union cavalryman pausing from the slaughter of
the Civil War to recite the Gettysburg Address by heart as the
president who gave it trudges past through the mud.
And
it ends with Abraham Lincoln in quiet triumph, his work done in seeing
slavery banned throughout the nation, and the Confederacy of the
American South brought to its knees.
Breaking
off from a discussion with colleagues about...
Friday, 11 January 2013
0 Movie review: Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Movie: Matru Ki Bijlee Ka MandolaCast: Imran Khan, Anushka Sharma, Pankaj Kapur, Shabana AzmiDirection: Vishal BhardwajRating: Macbeth
and Maoism don't normally make for a cinematic cocktail, but with
Vishal Bhardwaj you can never tell. Vishal's is a mindspace where
nothing ever unfolds as it would seem. He played out the surprise
quotient in Kaminey, Omkara and Maqbool. He does it again with his new film, teasingly packaged as a rom-com.Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola is
a satire that uses a Shakespearean whiff and shades of Red politics to
make a caustic comment beneath its catchy, mouthful of a title. If
comedy mixed with romance...
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