Utilizing the 3D format for the first time in his career, director Sam Raimi (the Spider-Man trilogy) strains to give the all-ages fantasy addicts more of everything in Oz: The Great And Powerful. As it turns out, only the magic is missing, writes Rashid Irani.
The good news is that The Attacks of 26/11 is one of the better films Ram Gopal Varma has made in recent years. The bad news is that Varma's last few films were duds like Department and Bhoot Returns so the bar is set very low.
Anupama Chopra writes.
Quite curiously, ever since the new millennium kicked off, Hollywood has been obsessive about the world being saved from extinction, a fear perhaps exacerbated by the 9/11 Twin Towers tragedy.
Rashid Irani writes.
John Abraham starrer I, Me Aur Main doesn't impress the critics much. The film has it's moments but fails to convience as far as the plot is concerned. Go for it if you're a die-hard John fan!
In the follow-up to their Oscar-winning Gulf war drama, The Hurt Locker (2008), director Kathryn Bigelow and scriptwriter Mark Boal recount through intense imagery and masterful storytelling the CIA's decade-long hunt for the terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Rashid Irani writes.
Over the last ten years, the brothers Bhatt - Mahesh and Mukesh - have perfected the art of the high-concept, low-budget franchise. Think Jannat, Raaz and, of course, Murder.
Anupama Chopra writes.
Kai Po Che! is a moving portrait of friendship, loss, forgiveness. Working from Chetan Bhagat's best-seller The 3 Mistakes of My Life, co-writer and director Abhishek Kapoor lovingly constructs a deep and abiding camaraderie.
Anupama Chopra writes.
He's a former high-school teacher recently discharged from a psychiatric institution where he was treated for bipolar disorder. She's a young widow who's similarly depressed following the death of her cop husband. Director David O Russell argues, no matter how messy or fraught with anxieties their lives seem, they might just be right for each other. Rashid Irani writes.
The Attacks of 26/11 is being appreciated by most critics. Though none of them are saying over the top things about the film, giving it a decent review. Read on to know more about the pros and cons.
Special 26 is the best Hindi film I’ve seen this year. Inspired by a real-life heist in 1987, writer-director Neeraj Pandey constructs an elaborate cat-and-mouse chase between cops and robbers. Except, here, you’re rooting for the bad guys, writes
Anupama Chopra.
Taking a cue from Hollywood's Step Up series, director-choreographer Remo D'Souza packs in a television dance competition, several elaborate dance sequences, a romantic rivalry and the requisite rich-poor divide.
Anupama Chopra writes.
Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel Midnight's Children had long been thought unfilmable. A measure of credit is due, then, to director Deepa Mehta for attempting the challenge of compressing the 600-plus page book into a two-and-a-half hour movie.
Rashid Irani writes.
Vishwaroop has to be admired for its scale and ambition. Kamal Haasan attempts to give the terrorists a context. The film shows us the damage inflicted by America’s war on terror.
Anupama Chopra writes.
Race 2 is essentially a big-budget cartoon in which coolness is all. The director duo Abbas-Mustan have no pretensions about what they are making - full-on masala with a dash of revenge.
Anupama Chopra writes.
Greater Elephant, Krishnan's second feature - his first was the mumblecore independent film, The Untitled Krishnan Project - was intended to be a dark film. Suprateek Chatterjee writes.