Posts Tagged With: Hollywood
Kate Winslet’s Hand
Alan Cowan is one of those annoying men with whom you really can’t have a conversation because every other minute, his phone rings and you’ve lost him to a disembodied voice. As his wife Nancy observes, there’s always somewhere other than here that he needs to be. At one point, Alan gets a call when [...]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
I’m a wimp when it comes to violence and horror in films (and in life, I think. Fortunately, there have been very few occasions when my nerves have been tested for fear). I skipped “Drive” only because I’d been told about some gory, skull smash. I’ve been haunted by the sound of the arm bone [...]
Breaking Down Breaking Dawn
I wasn’t going to write about the latest installment of the the “Twilight” saga even though I’ve seen it. “Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ is one of those films that really destroys one’s faith in human judgement. Not because a director whose filmography ranges from good to enjoyable, and whose films usually have at least [...]
Band Baaja Woody Allen
While on the subject of love stories (see post below), I have a confession to make. I’ve watched the ending of “Band Baaja Baaraat” about a dozen times on YouTube (it’s been taken offline very recently, hence the link to the official site. Sniff). Almost everyone I know has seen and loved “Band Baaja Baaraat”. [...]
Acting Parts
I know a lot of people (read: journalists from print media, mostly aged 40+) complain that the Internet is killing the newspaper but thank you god for the world wide web. Because without the world wide web, we’d have no websites; and if it didn’t have a website, the New York Times wouldn’t have come [...]
East is West?
For generations, we Indians have had one phrase for intelligent cinema – “English movie”. “Hindi movie” translated to Bollywood, rather than our frequently dour art film movement, with its penchant for senseless bad taste. All that was stupid, unrealistic, melodramatic, incoherent, illogical and – alright, I’ll admit it – occasionally fun, converged in glorious technicolour [...]
World Domination
