A Scanner Darkly is directed by Richard Linklater, the guy who gave us Boyhood. Not known to many, this film. It sort of slipped through the cracks. It features Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder, to name a few. This is well before Downey Jr became Iron Man. The visuals of … Read more
Confessions (Kokuhaku),a Japanese film, is the story of Yuko Moriguchi, a teacher, a mother, who has lost her young daughter. Her daughter dies in an apparent swimming pool accident and drowns. Yuko knows that it was not an accident but a murder. She decides to take revenge. The film is set in the context of … Read more
This movie goes by many names. The original Cantonese name is Yi ge ren de wu lin. In English it goes by the names Kung Fu Jungle, Kung Fu Killer and Last of the Best. Why you ask? I don’t know, lost in translation may be? This is a Hong Kong Chinese movie starring Donnie … Read more
This movie goes by multiple names Jiang Hu, Gong Woo, Blood Brothers, Triad Underworld and Left Hand. I’m not sure why the indecisiveness in naming the film. Perhaps something to do with numerology. The movie stars two gang leaders played by Andy Lau (from Infernal Affairs) and singer/actor Jacky Cheung. They play Hung and Lefty … Read more
This is one of the movies where Jim Carrey, my personal favourite actor, had shown the world how he can do any kind of role. This is one of those rare movies where Jim Carrey has played a serious role. This man can act, he simply prefers rubber-faced roles because he’s the god of that … Read more
Deadpool is funny! Now that would be an understatement. Deadpool combines elements of a witty script, good acting, neat action sequences and an awesome extraction of a comic book character. Deadpool movie vs comic book comparison is pretty damn close. What made the film so anticipated? Brilliant marketing. They went up against Valentine’s Day which … Read more
I Origins is one of those films that lets science and the meta-physical world go head to head. The movie stars Michael Pitt (from Murder by Numbers) in the lead role (Ian) of a scientist who is out to get proof for the evolution of Eyes. He is joined in the lab by his scientific … Read more
Time Lapse is a 2014 science-fiction, time-travel movie directed by Bradley King. This movie technically doesn’t have time-related glitches. Not big ones at least. Where it does have a problem is with each of the characters. The story is about 3 friends who live together. Finn (Matt O’Leary), his girlfriend Callie (Danielle Panabaker from Flash), … Read more
This film is about the concept of how humans don’t utilize more than 10% of their brains. No we’re not talking about those idiots who drive while talking on their phone or chatter through entire films. Even the more intelligent, evolved humans are unable to tap into more than 10% – 15% of their brain … Read more
Ha ha ha. Jigarthanda is a fun movie. Director Karthik Subbaraj (of Pizza fame) has also written the script for this himself. There aren’t too many dark humour films around in the Tamil film industry. This one carves itself a great spot in the list of tight and well executed flicks. There is no unnecessary … Read more