This Means War

Release Date: 02/17/2012  Rating: R   Runtime: 98 min Genre: Comedy, Action , Romance Director: McG Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Chelsea Handler Storyline Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.  Review  In This Means War –...

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The Vow (2012)

Release Date: 02/10/2012 Rating: PG13 Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins Genre: Drama,Romance Director: Michael Sucsy Cast: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange Storyline A car accident puts Paige (McAdams) in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo (Tatum) works to win her heart again. Review The romantic drama The Vow is not adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel, though I doubt its producers would...

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Gali Gali Chor Hai movie review

Gali Gali Chor Hai February 3, 2012 11:48:02 AM IST updated February 4, 2012 01:52:30 PM IST By Martin D'Souza, Glamsham Editorial For a movie that slots itself as comedy/drama, GALI GALI CHOR HAI leaves a sobering impact. In fact, it has you tottering out of the auditorium after having driven home its point with such finesse that it makes you wonder how Rumi Jaffery managed this Houdini act! 'Houdini act' because it's a subject so real and so close to home that it has never been addressed with such intelligence. True, there have been movies...

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Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu  February 10, 2012 12:30:48 PM IST updated February 10, 2012 03:11:11 PM IST By Martin D'Souza, Glamsham Editorial This clearly is an Imran Khan show. Sedate and subdued, he goes about bringing Rahul (his character) to life. Overburdened by the expectations from his parents (Boman Irani and Ratna Pathak-Shah) to excel in what they decide is best for him, Rahul loses his identity and lives to please them. He opens his mouth, but is never able to voice his opinion. He is an architect in a big firm in Las Vegas. Sin city...

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Ghost

Kumaar, A.M. Turaz and Sandeep Nath Shiney Ahuja, Sayali Bhagat, Tej Sapru, Deepraj Rana, Julia Bliss and Gulshan Rana January 13, 2012 03:37:37 PM IST By Martin D'Souza, Glamsham Editorial Do not mistake this for the remake of the Patick Swayze-Demi Moore starrer with the same name. This one is far removed from the brilliance of that 1990 flick. This GHOST is a nuisance. The directors needs to learn the ABC of scripting before venturing into...

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Valentines Night

Valentine's Night Movie Review February 10, 2012 12:40:33 PM IST updated February 10, 2012 03:22:08 PM IST By Martin D'Souza, Glamsham Editorial VALENTINE'S NIGHT is a story about three girls and two boys who have just broken up on Valentine's Day and meet up on the 'Lonely Hearts' page on Facebook. One of the girls plans a night out together. They call it Valentine's Night! As the night progresses, three more join the trip. These three (two girls and a boy) and partners of three from the five. Confusing? Not really. The idea was novel, but...

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Agneepath

January 26, 2012 01:08:11 PM IST updated January 30, 2012 05:28:27 PM IST By Martin D'Souza, Glamsham Editorial Before the onset, I would like to make it known that AGNEEPATH, the original, remains one of my best Bollywood films to date. I have seen it umpteen times and every time I see it a new, I enjoy it even more. To me, that was Amitabh Bachchan's finest performance; he dared to experiment and set a benchmark with his dialogue style that ended with an eeh! Vijay Dinanath Chauhan was a complete character coming from Mandwa, a small town...

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Sadda Adda

Shamir Tandon, Band of Boys, Ramji Gulati Prashant Pandey, Sandeep Nath, Ramji Gulati, Shamir Tandon, Karan Oberio Karanvir Sharma, Bhaumik Sampat, Rohin Robert, Rohit Arora, Kunal Pant, Parimal Aloke, Shaurya Chauhan and Kahkkashan Aryan January 13, 2012 11:16:52 AM IST updated January 14, 2012 08:26:57 PM IST By Martin D'Souza, Glamsham Editorial SADDA ADDA is a movie with the right intention. You could call it a poor cousin of 3 IDIOTS....

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Staying Alive movie review

February 1, 2012 01:14:39 PM ISTupdated February 2, 2012 06:28:23 PM ISTBy Martin D'Souza, Glamsham Editorial This film may not have many takers (read audience) but whoever watches it will come out enlightened. It falls in the off-beat cinema mold, an area which many producers and directors do not venture into because of the economic factor. However, deep within, most passionate about cinema do want to dabble with topics that will not make the box-office...

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Safe House (2012)

Release Date: 10 February 2012 (Pakistan) Runtime: 115 min Genres: Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller Director: Daniel Espinosa Writer: David GuggenheimStars: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds and Robert Patrick Storyline A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge. Review A flat thriller that could use a little danger. In...

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Underworld: Awakening

     Release Date: 01/20/2012   Rating: R  Runtime: 1 hr 28 mins   Genre: Horror   Director: Bjorn Stein  Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy, Theo Jame Review After sitting out most of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, the 2009 “prequel” to the Underworld saga, Kate Beckinsale returns to her trademark role as the face of the blockbuster action-horror franchise in Underworld: Awakening. The...

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Man on a Ledge

Release Date: 01/27/2012Rating: PG13Runtime: Not Yet AvailableGenre: Drama, ThrillerDirector: Asger LethCast: Sam Worthington, Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, Edward Burns Review In the cinematic desert that is the January-February movie-release schedule, one gains a greater appreciation for mere competence. And that’s precisely what you’ll get with Man on a Ledge, a mid-budget thriller with modest aspirations and genuine popcorn appeal. Sam Worthington...

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Red Tails

A drawn out history lesson that nose-dives from beginning to end. While Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan helped define the style of a modern day war film, it was his HBO mini-series Band of Brothers that truly captured the World War II experience. The multi-part saga dealt with every nook and cranny of the US military's involvement in the war, from large scale battles to intimate character details. The new movie Red Tails, developed and...

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Joyful Noise

Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton try their best to make this cinematic noise into something joyful.A massive hit never ends at its own conclusion, for better or worse. Lost, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, The Blair Witch Project and other pop culture milestones spawned plenty of imitators of wavering quality that trickled on to screens until the phenomena tapered off. Joyful Noise, the new film starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton, is one...

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'Haywire'

According to official Haywire lore, director Steven Soderbergh chanced upon the woman who would become the star of his breakneck action-thriller one night while watching television. Which isn’t entirely unusual, except that Soderbergh wasn’t watching some obscure indie film or BBC miniseries, but a bout of women’s mixed martial arts fighting. So impressed was he at the sight of Gina Carano, an American Gladiators alum turned cage fighter, that he had the Haywire script, from The Limey writer Lem Dobbs, reworked to accommodate her casting. In the...

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'Big Miracle'

. Perhaps that’s the “miracle” of which the title speaks. John Krasinski, taking care not to stray too far from his Office persona, stars as Adam Carlson, a Barrow, Alaska, TV newsman dreaming of the big time when a local boy (Ahmaogak Sweeney) arrives with a story that just might get him there: On the eve of their annual migration, a trio of grey whales have become marooned under the Arctic Circle’s fast-forming ice sheet. Incapable of making the four-mile trek to open seas without running out of air, they cling to a shrinking hole in the ice,...

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The Woman in Black

Release Date: 3 February 2012 (USA) Runtime: 95 min Director: James Watkins Writers: Susan Hill (novel), Jane Goldman (screenplay)Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer and Ciarán Hinds Review A horror flick stuck in the limbo between cinematic life and death by boredom. There isn't much of a twist to The Woman in Black's haunted house tale: man goes to a creepy, old house, runs into an angry ghost, and mayhem ensues. That standard...

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'Journey 2: The Mysterious Island'

"[the film] runs its course quickly without ever leaving a moment to reflect on how ridiculous it is."It’s hard for me to judge a movie like Journey 2: The Mysterious Island too harshly because I am not representative of its intended audience. A pre-teen or fifth-grader may not be dissuaded as I was by the blindingly hurried pace, plot discrepancies or absence of any character development while watching Brad Peyton’s (Cats and Dogs: The Revenge...

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'Chronicle'

Chronicle, a dark sci-fi thriller about teenage superheroes, is a “found-footage” film, and it counts as one of the rare instances in which in which the increasingly prevalent – and increasingly maligned – technique is appropriately deployed, and not merely a cheap gimmick for manufacturing tension. The story begins with Andrew (Dane DeHaan), a pale, saturnine lad, switching on a camera and declaring to his drunken father, who fumes outside his bedroom door, that he intends to “film everything.” And so he does. Narrating in a gloomy, nasal drone,...

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Release Date: 12/16/2011                                                             Genre: Action, Mystery Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris REVIEW 2009’s Sherlock Holmes found unexpected synergy in the pairing of Robert Downey Jr.’s impish charm...

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