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Starring: Sunny Deol, Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Isha Koppikar, Deepal Shaw
Director: Neeraj Phatak
Stars: **1/2

There is nothing particularly odd when underserving films get hyped to no end and ultimately turn out to be unmitigated disasters. But more unfortunate is when decent fares go unnoticed because they are either poorly publicised or no effort goes into [...]

Starring: Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Yashpal Sharma, Mohammed Faizal
Director: Dev Benegal
Stars: **1/2
The multiplex film era has ushered in, among other things, the movement of concept films. These are directors who are part of Bollywood’s new wave and perennially in search of fresh ideas. In recent times. we’ve had filmmakers like Dipakar Banerjee, Anurag [...]

ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Dir- Tim Burton
Cast- Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, Crispin Glover and Helena Bonham Carter
Synopsis- 19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror.

BROOKLYN’S FINEST
Dir- Antoine [...]

The film’s going to have a red carpet premiere at Fun Cinemas, Mumbai tonight before its theatrical release tomorrow! Of the one show it has at Movie Star in Goregaon, there’s a huge rush for the advance booking…5 tickets already sold! There are reports that there have been lathi-charges at centers in UP!
Anyway, here’s the [...]

There was a time when I was one of Aamir Khan’s big fan. I still am a fan of Aamir the actor, and the films he’s done this past decade (save 3 Idiots which I personally did not like at all) are some of the best films of the decade, with Lagaan and Dil Chahta [...]

While everyone’s paying close attention to MNIK’s Indian and overseas box-office numbers, and while all the pre-release buzz of the film was centered around whether the Shiv Sena’s tactics would adversely affect the film’s business…almost everybody forgot that the real threat that MNIK would actually have to fight off in its second week is the [...]

Wait! Did I read the name of Syd Field there, the guru of screenplay writing, as a story consultant? Wait! Are those muted colours that Ravi Chandran has chosen to bathe his frames in? Wait! Is that an effectively scored segue-way from the opening expository shots and scene of the film into the protagonist’s flashback? [...]

Starring: Siddharth, Ankur Vikal, Aditya Pancholi, Seema Biswas, Anupam Kher, Nicolette Bird
Director: Chandan Arora
Stars: **1/2
Chandan Arora is the man behind two of the most criminally underrated films of the past decade – Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon and Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh. His third, Striker unmistakably has some of the strengths of these two [...]

Best Picture
AVATAR

THE BLIND SIDE

DISTRICT 9

Best Record
Halo – Beyoncé
I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas
Poker Face – Lady Gaga
Use Somebody – Kings Of Leon
You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift
Best Album
Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King – Dave Matthews Band
The E.N.D. – Black Eyed Peas
The Fame – Lady Gaga
Fearless – Taylor Swift
I Am… Sasha Fierce – Beyoncé
Best [...]

THE CRAZIES
Dir- Breck Eisner
Cast- Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Preston Bailey and Joe Anderson
Synopsis- As a toxin begins to turn the residents of Ogden Marsh, Iowa into violent psychopaths, sheriff David Dutton tries to make sense of the situation while he, his wife, and two other unaffected townspeople band together in a fight for [...]

The Wrangled Banner!

Zenda
Dir- Avdhoot Gupte
Cast- Santosh Juvekar, Siddharth Chandekar, Sachit Patil, Chinmay Mandlekar, Rajesh Shrungarpure, Sunil Tawde and Pushkar Shrotri
Rating- ****

This is a video of Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro presenting the master filmmaker Martin Scorsese with a Lifetime Achievement Award  at the 67th Golden Globes Award. There is a lovely montage of Scorsese’s films, followed by his acceptance speech which is one of the best I’ve heard and clearly shows this man’s unending love [...]

For the four-day Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, Avatar pulled in an estimated $54.6 million, eclipsing Cloverfield’s $46.1 million as the biggest gross the holiday period has ever seen. Debuting in second place, The Book of Eli was no slouch either, grossing an estimated $38 million four-day, which was the holiday’s fourth-biggest ever. As busy [...]

Ricky Gervais, that British comedic genius responsible for Extras and The Office, hosted the 67th Golden Globes. And was he ballsy or what! Taking a dig at Hollywood celebrities in general, commenting on the amount of plastic surgery present in the room, to attacking individuals with pointed remarks like when he said, “I like a [...]

I can’t believe it’s been six years to the first time that I came up with these highly personal lists of mine. Back in 2004, these awards comprised only the top ten films of the year, the top five male and female performances and the top three directors. Over the years, I increasingly began to [...]

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/01/14/avatar-heads-into-weekend-five-with-strong-early-ticket-sales/
There’s a collective holding of breath right now amongst box office analysts and pundits everywhere as James Cameron’s sprawling sci-fi flick Avatar trundles towards a record-breaking performance as the top-grossing movie of all time. There are still a few records to break on the domestic sales front for Avatar to hit #2, but there’s really just one [...]

It is indeed happening. Post Avatar, and its wonderful use and seamless blending of 3D technology and mo-cap photography, the face of cinema as we know it was bound to change. If December 17, 2009 saw the release of Avatar, then December 17, 2010 should be marked in your calendar as the day of Tron [...]

The theatrical trailer of Teen Patti is out. This is a highly anticipated film for me. Bachchan, Maddy and Kingsley!
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Movie-Promos/xYZYsb48/3/Theatrical-Trailer-Teen-Patti.html

http://www.thevigilidiot.com/2009/12/29/3-idiots/