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Jul 17, 13 • 329 Views • Movies, Reviews • Naomi Sarah • No Comments
Rooted to my seat with hard-to-conceal anticipation, I wasn’t prepared for the fantastical enormity of what Pacific Rim was about to thrust at me. Let me begin by saying that the special effects team was scooped from the top of the heap; movies like...
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Jul 5, 13 • 876 Views • Movies, Reviews • Rajdip Ray • No Comments
Despicable Me 2 starts off from where its predecessor left off. Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), the super villain who had managed to steal the moon in the first movie, now leads a changed life with his three adopted daughters, attending princess themed parties...
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Jul 5, 13 • 535 Views • Movies, Reviews • Aniket Dasgupta • 6 Comments
Vikramaditya Motwane’s Lootera is a beautiful period drama set in a newly independent India of the 1950s. An India where many like my own grandfather had to give up their estates with the enforcement of the Zamindari Abolition Act. A new India was...
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Jun 29, 13 • 256 Views • Books, Reviews • Karthik Keramalu • No Comments
Kishalay Bhattacharjee’s Che in Paona Bazaar is a reticent vein running through the North East. The short stories are chased by a population who are buried under the unmixed concrete of violence which is a common factor by now. The stories move like...
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Jun 29, 13 • 400 Views • Movies, Reviews • Sachin Dev • 1 Comment
An intelligently done zombie movie? Sounds a little implausible doesn’t it? World War Z may have got that right. But believe it or not, Brad Pitt has backed this mega-scale epic zombie “war” movie through long tiresome years of rewrite and...
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Jun 27, 13 • 653 Views • Movies, Reviews • Rajdip Ray • 3 Comments
Director: Anand L. Rai Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Dhanush, Abhay Deol Director Anand Rai’s Raanjhanaa is basically a story about Kundan (Dhanush) getting friend zoned by his childhood love interest, Zoya (Sonam Kapoor) who refuses to hitch up with Kundan no...
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Jun 15, 13 • 357 Views • Video Games • Arka Basu • No Comments
Television series have never been particularly adept at engendering video games, and if anything, their commercial success is solely dependent on viewer nostalgia and histrionic fan reviews. Friends: The One with All the Trivia released in November 2005...
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Jun 6, 13 • 537 Views • Movies, Reviews • Rajdip Ray • No Comments
Directed by Todd Philips Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong The first movie of The Hangover series was a smashing hit, breaking box office records all over the world. The second was plain bad movie with most of...
