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Adapted from a French play ‘Fleur de cactus’, Just Go With is about plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) with a foxy move for picking up women; he feigns an unhappy marriage. When he meets hot math teacher Palmer or ‘the one’ (Brooklyn Decker) however, he finds himself in a fix. When she insists on meeting his soon-to-be ex wife, Danny begs his frumpy assistant Katherine Murphy (Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be his snooty, cheating wife. Things snowball with Katherine’s children and Danny’s cousin getting involved. The unlikely bunch takes their madness to Hawaii where the truth eventually spills out.
The duo Adam Sandler and director Dennis Dugan are not known for their serious cinema (Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy). They however, take their toilet humor to another level with Just Go With It and it is not even funny. The film has nothing, actually, going for it.
Don’t be surprised if you find yourself sitting stone faced as Danny’s cousin and Katherine’s fake lover Eddie (Nick Swardson) tries to give CPR to a sheep or when Katherine’s son poops on Eddie’s hand. Read more...
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Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) belongs to a rare species of bird known as the Spix Macaw. Neatly tucked into an urban lifestyle in snowy Minnesota with bookstore owner Linda (Leslie Mann), Blu is a far away from home — the jungles of Rio de Janeiro. Domesticated Blu, can brush his teeth and read a book but does not know how to fly.
Soon enough, Blu’s species is on the decline and he has to mate. Linda and Blu who have led a sheltered life, take the plunge and travel to Rio where Blu meets a female Spix Macaw, Jewel (Anne Hathaway). As cultures clash, it’s hate at first sight. The two bond however, while escaping the clutches of poachers who try to make a quick buck by selling exotic birds.
Rio starts with a bang. Exotic birds swoosh in front of your eyes, thanks to the 3D graphics. The rest of the film is in the similar vein — musical and fast-paced. Read more...
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The game begins when reclusive business tycoon Kabir Malhotra (Anupam Kher) invites four strangers from around the world to the Greek island of Samos- his home. The players are a corrupt prime ministerial candidate from Thailand (Boman Irani), a Bollywood star with a dark past (Jimmy Shergill), a drug runner from Istanbul (Abhishek Bachchan) and a young journalist from London (Shahana Goswami). Each has a common skeleton in their closet.
But when the game turns into a closed-door murder mystery, Interpol cop Sia Agnihotri (Kangana Ranaut) is brought in to pull the plug and inspect the pieces. Can she fit the clues to the crime as well as she fits in those suits? Can we mute the screen when she reiterates the obvious and leads us down blind alleys?
And is the game really over for our players? Read More
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‘There must be some kind of chemical that makes us different from animals’, sings the title track of the film. For the next 90 minutes, and 127 hours of Aron Ralston’s life, we are going to discover exactly what that is. Read more...
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This is the kind of film that has mass appeal. Teen queens and women will love the sequins, raunchy costumes and OTT make-up; these are the kind of shiny beads-n-cotton candy fabrics that haunt the dreams of little girls. Men will love the titillating song-n-dance routines with barely hidden flesh. There’s a campy story somewhere in the background read more...
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Dhobi Ghat tells 4 parallel stories with one common connection - Mumbai. A reclusive painter Arun (Amir Khan) has a one night stand with Shai (Monica Dogra), a banker in America who is back in Mumbai on a sabbatical. The morning after the night of passion gets awkward as Arun prefers being a loner. Shai, consequently befriends Munna (Prateik Babbar), a dhobi and a wannabe actor.
Munna’s infatuation for Shai grows while she’s busy chasing Arun. Meanwhile, Arun finds some video tapes of previous tenants in his house. The tapes turn out to be letters from a small town girl Yasmin (Kriti Malhotra) who comes to Mumbai with her husband. Read more...
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The terror of the torturous Turning 30
Runaway as fast as you can! Not because you might be turning 30 but because you just saw a glimpse of the gawky film Turning 30.
Naina (Gul Panag) has everything in perfect order. She turns 30 in two weeks, is up for a promotion and a proposal from her boyfriend –Rishab (Siddharth Makkar) is due. Life is great until, her lover decides to marry a rich someone else (Ira Dubey) and she is on the verge of losing her job. Then, on the rebound, she indulges in an affair with former boyfriend Jai (Purab Kohli) but soon ditches him for she still harbours feelings for Rishabh. All through these tumultuous days, her friends Malini (Tillotama Shome) and Rukhsana (Jeneva Talwar ) support her Read more...
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There is hardly anyone in the county who hasn’t heard Jessica Lall’s story and for those (measly in number) who haven’t, should watch No One Killed Jessica.
Rajkumar Gupta portrays the high profile murder in Delhi which stirred the nation and put the judiciary system of India in a tight spot, with a lot of honesty and poise, on screen.
Jessica Lall, a model who was working as a celebrity bartender in Bina Ramani’sparty was shot dead by Manu Sharma Read more...
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Ethan Mascarenhas (
Hrithik Roshan), a magican is confined to living a life of a quadriplegic after a freak accident renders his spine unworthy of holding up anything except his head. After many years of fighting it and surviving he petitions for euthanasia (Ethan-asia as he suggests) much to everyone’s surprise.
Roshan plays his part with utmost sincerity and grace. His wit and charm is almost flawless and convincing as his shrivelled body amassed in the chair/bed. The sexual overtures ,especially between his alluring, caring and possessive nurse
Sophia D’souza (
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) is a bit surprising
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No replay of this action please.
All had warned not to venture for this colorful movie. But the advertisements beckoned and the dialogue ‘Awaaz neeche’ seemed funny in the trailers. Having faith that the scriptwriters had worked to create more funnies, I proceeded to the theater. I should have listened, but it was too late. With the first scene of the movie I was convinced of the film’s lack of convincing power.
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What makes David Fincher – the masterful hand behind thriller greats likeSe7en, Fight Club and Zodiac – take on the seemingly pedestrian story of a dotcom success? What makes Aaron Sorkin – the guy who penned “you can’t handle the truth”, and crisp witted TV dramas like The West Wing and Studio 60– write lines for a geeky programmer kid? Is it just because the movie’s aboutFacebook?
Hardly. The movie’s hardly about Facebook.
It’s about Generation 2.0. It’s about Mark Zuckerberg Read more...
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After the resounding success that Hangover got him, Todd Philips strikes again but less hard this time. Due Date follows a tried and tested formula of contrast characters on a crazy cross country road trip. Peter Highman (Robert Downy Jr.), an irritated architect and expectant father has to fly from Atlanta to LA to be with his heavily pregnant wife. Various incidents land him in the no fly list and Peter is forced to take a ride with Ethan Tremblay Read more...
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It’s an unwritten rule broken only by stellar exceptions. Sequels don’t do well. Three-quels, more so. Is Golmaal 3 really that exceptional?
For the first half, it is.
Consider the formula. Sand, surf, skin and swaying hips, unbelievable wire stunts, crashing cars, heists and hijinks, a borrowed plot, inept hooligans, smart-ass loafers, a superhuman Ajay Devgn, a mute Tusshar Kapoor (thank God?) and a snake-tattooed Vrajesh Hirjee. That’s the story of Golmaal 1, 2 and 3. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Not much worse than the last, but not always much better.
Except that Golmaal 3 dares to do a few things differently.
Sequels follow Darwinian evolution. What works for the first generation is retained and magnified, Read more...
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