Being a huge fan of 18th and 19th century British Literature, it’s always a pleasure to discover a new writer from the era. A friend of mine recommended that I read Elizabeth Gaskell. So off I went to the bookstore and picked up ‘Cranford and Other Stories’. I loved it. Gaskell’s work although entirely original is at the same time a hybrid of Jane Austin plot-lines and Charles Dickens humor. A few months ago, I…
Majid Majidi’s movies have always impressed me. I was amazed by the simple story about a pair of shoes in Children of Heaven and I loved the depiction of alienation of blind people in The Color of Paradise. I recently watched Baran that delved in the softer aspects of love amidst political turmoil. The Plot Baran depicts the conflicts arising in Iran as Afghani refugees come into the country during the Soviet Union’s war in…
Three Colors White was more of an accidental discovery for me as I was browsing through some of our movies to watch something. I decided to watch this and must say that found it thoroughly worth the watch. It’s the second movie in a trilogy and has similar movies with the names red and blue. Three Colors White is on the theme of Equality. In brief, the story is about a man (Karol) and how…
For those who are unfamiliar, “Mamma Mia” is a famous Broadway production that weaves a narrative through ABBA songs. The plot itself is quite uncomplicated: Sophie, a young woman in her twenties, is on the verge of getting married on a picturesque Greek island. Raised by her single mother, Donna, Sophie is resolute in unraveling the mystery of her paternity. Using her mother’s diary, Sophie narrows her search to three potential fathers and invites them…
It was a mixed group of us who went to watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Part 1). Some of us were die-hard fans of the books, some of us die-hard fans of the movies and had never read the book and some of us just wanted to watch an interesting movie. And not one of us liked it. I just love the HP books and have been time and again moderately disappointed by…
300 is based on the true story of the ‘Battle of Thermopylae” in which a group of a few thousand men of Sparta and Greece stood against the Persian attack of demigod Xerxes I. Read More…
Thanks to bigflix.com we are watching movies that we would never go to the theatre for. One such movie that I was curious about was Nancy Drew (2007). Like a lot of kids, I started reading books with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys series. I had never seen an onscreen adaptation of the series so was wondering what it would be like. Well, to be honest, I was disappointed. Everything was wrong from the…
I was not planning to do a tribute post on Michael Jackson. I was shocked by the news of his death, but not particularly moved, at least not in a personal way. It was only when I saw the memorial service over television that the impact of the situation hit me. Being an Indian, your introduction to the world of Western music is really determined by what your peers recommend or what you hear at…
