Withnail & I
Movie:Withnail & I Language: English Genre: Comedy Directors: Bruce Robinson Year: 1987 Watched on: 11 Jun 2006 Rating: *** (3/5) Review:
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Murder in Mesopotamia
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Movie: Murder in Mesopotamia Language: English Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery Director: Tom Clegg Year: 2001 Watched on: 12 May 2006 Rating: ***1/2 (3.5/5) Review: This is the celluloid version of Agatha Christie’s Novel featuring legendary fictional detective Hercule Poirot (David Suchet). Poirit lands in Iraq on request of Countess Vera Rosakoff but after reaching Baghdad, he finds her missing and joins his friend Hastings (Hugh Fraser) at an excavation site instead. Erik Leidner (Ron Berglas) is the Chief archaeologist at the site with a charming wife Louise (Barbara Barnes) and team of fellow archeologists. Louise finds herself terrorized and traumatized by a person from her past that eventually results in her murder and reluctantly Poirot picks up the threads of investigation. David Suchet as the immaculate Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is outstanding. This whodunit murder mystery is high on entertainment quotient.
Yi Yi
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Movie: Yi Yi Language: Mandarin / English Genre: Drama Director: Edward Yang Year: 2000 Watched on: 07 May 2006 Rating: **** (4/5) Review: “Yi Yi” by Edward Yang is a drama that portrays the life of three generations of Taiwanese family. NJ (Nien-Jen Wu) is a partner in a somewhat successful but presently loss making firm dealing in electronics and computers. He lives with his wife Min-Min, mother-in-law, (Elaine Jin), daughter Tin-Tin (Kelly Lee) and son Yan-Yan (Jonathan Chang). NJ accidentally runs into his ex lover Sherry (Su-Yun Ko) during the wedding of his brother-in-law. The same day his mother in law meets with an accident and gets into a coma. This incident has tremendous affect on each of the family members. The movie explores the world of ensemble of characters and beautifully depicts their struggles, worries, triumphs and failures. It is a profound, thoughtful and realistic movie with life as theme. Edward Yang has skillfully directed and the performances add on to that. ...
Nine Queens
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Movie: Nine Queens (Nueve reinas) Language: Spanish Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery Director: Fabián Bielinsky Year: 2000 Watched on: 06 May 2006 Rating: ***1/2 (3.5/5) Review: Nine Queens is an interesting con movie from Argentina where nothing is the way it appears on surface. Marcos a con saves another con Juan from a possible trouble. Marcos reveals his true identity and invites Juan to be his partner in crime for a day. As the day progresses they get into a once in a lifetime con job opportunity which can bring in a fortune. They have to pull off a big con job of selling fake stamps to a millionaire philatelist. While taking job to its end, the duo has to negotiate with suspicious characters, maneuver through tricky situations, avoid being conned more importantly trust each other. As the plot thickens one wonders who is duping whom? This is a well written and lively paced entertainer.
Shaun of the Dead
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Movie: Shaun of the Dead Language: English Genre: Comedy / Horror / Romance Director: Edgar Wright Year: 2004 Watched on: 05 May 2006 Rating: *** (3/5) Review: Shaun of the Dead is a British horror comedy. Shaun (Simon Pegg) is a 29 year old electronics shop sales man whose life is going nowhere. He has no real goals and ambitions and he just amuses himself by making daily trip to his favorite pub Winchester, playing console games and watching TV with his childhood lazy bum friend Ed (Nick Frost). His girlfriend of many years Liz (Kate Ashfield) who is somewhat ambitious and sane decides to dump him after realizing Shaun’s hopeless condition. At this juncture, the city of London is under Zombie attack. As the dead wake up, Shaun too wakes up and realizes that he has to race against the time and save his mother and girlfriend. With his childhood pal Ed by his side, Shaun makes the expedition of his life to his favorite pub Winchester, but with his loved ones. Despite gore and blood the...
Dark City
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Movie: Dark City Language: English Genre: Fantasy / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller Director: Alex Proyas Year: 1998 Watched on: 23 April 2006 Rating: ***1/2 (3.5/5) Review: Dark City is an interesting as well as engrossing Sci-fi movie. A guy wakes up in a hotel room with out memories and finds his name is John Murdoch who is accused of murdering six prostitutes. While trying to figure out his past, he figures out the things in the city are not the way they seem; a strange race is controlling the lives of people in the city, sun never raises and he possesses a strange ability to change his physical surroundings. Great camerawork, brilliant sets and style of narration make this film quite engrossing. Overall it is a good science fiction.
Paradise Now
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Movie: Paradise Now Language: Arabic Genre: Crime / Drama Director: Hany Abu-Assad Year: 2005 Watched on: 22 April 2006 Rating: **** (4/5) Review: “Paradise Now” is a brilliant, thought provoking and dispassionate film by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad. Said (Kais Nashef) and Khaled (Ali Suliman) are two childhood friends and garage mechanics living with their families in the West bank area which is under Israeli occupation. They get chosen to be the martyrs who would blow themselves up after infiltrating to Israel. As the two nominated Palestinian terrorists with bomb packs strapped around their belly try to go about their tasks, doubts, internal conflicts and personal trauma surfaces. This Oscar nominated and Golden Globe award winning film is a superb thriller which depicts human side of the terrorists and gives viewers an unbiased view of the situation. This gripping movie is well shot and has some great performances.