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…
Movies & TV
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…
The Ladies Are Back Carrie and the gang are back with their designer labels and six-inch heels. The movie takes off from four years after the famous HBO show ended. Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), her husband Steve and their son have made a life for themselves in Brooklyn. Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is settled in a monogamous relationship and has been living in Los Angeles. Carrie (Sarah J. Parker) has been in a 3-year relationship with Mr.…
Goodbye England’s rose May you ever grow in our hearts You were the grace that placed itself Where lives were torn apart You called out to our country And you whispered to those in pain Now you belong to heaven And the stars spell out your name And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind… by Elton John Few from our generation will ever forget the day Princess…
I always get a fairly accurate gut feeling about the movie from its trailers. When I saw Katrina Kaif swaying to the outstanding beat of “Mere Sang” (another hit for Sunidhi Chauhan) I knew I wanted to watch New York. New York is about the story of three friends – Omar (Niel Mukesh), Sameer (John Abraham) and Maya (Katrina Kaif) who meet at New York State University campus and build a close bond over the…
I have tried twice to watch Babel, a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. In my first attempt, I could not understand the movie because the subtitles were not working for some weird reason:). On my second try, I couldn’t understand the movie even though the subtitles were working! At the risk of being called dense, I must confess that I just didn’t get what the director wanted to convey. The movie was painfully slow…
What’s it about? I am a big sucker for those ‘coming of age-breaking free-follow your dreams’ kinds of movie. That’s precisely the reason why I enjoyed ‘Rock On’ so much. And of course, the great music helped. The story of four twenty-somethings’ tryst with their own ambitions is inspiring and heart-warming. The movie starts off in an abandoned basement with Rob (Luke Kenny), Aditya (Farhan Akhtar), KD ( Purab Kohli) and Joe (Arjun Rampal) setting…
It is always interesting to observe how a character from a book comes to life on the silver screen. One of my all-time favorite detectives Hercule Poirot is a complex character with his own peculiar habits. A man most brilliant but also multi-dimensional. I am more than impressed than David Suchet’s interpretation of Poirot. He brings Poirot to life. David’s Poirot is just what Agatha Christie would have imagined – the short bald Belgian, with…
