The movie won Oscar for Best Writing, and was nominated for the best motion picture and best performance by an actress in a leading role, it says all about a movie which is comic, sarcastic, and dramatic and talks about a serious subject of teenage pregnancy.
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From the Junkyard
Yesterday- April Fool’s Day
It was the 1st of April yesterday, i.e. the April fool’s day or the all fool’s day. As the name suggests in itself, the April fool’s day is meant for making fool of others and getting fooled by others. The day is marked by hoaxes and playing pranks on friends, relatives, neighbours and even enemies, not to offend but to enjoy.
My Country My Life
My country my life, is the title of Mr. Advani’s autobiography. The book was recently released in a function which was attended, by everyone from politicians to business men, to actors, to journalists and other socialites. The whole media world was ablaze with speculations regarding the book. Everyone was enthusiastically waiting for it, as all of them wanted to know as to what one of the main architect of modern day politics has to say about issues on which till date he was mum. The Jinnah episode, the Kandahar crisis, his relationship with Atalji, the man has so much to talk about. Although I still do not know as to how much the book beholds about all these?
Meet The Spartans
Meet the Spartans has nothing to do with ‘Meet the Parents’, and by the promos you must know that it is a spoof of the [digital] blockbuster ‘300’. It is a spoof! Need I say anything more?
Holi-Day
By the time this post will be posted, the festival of colours would be over. All the enthusiasm, fun, energy and mischief associated with it will be lost and the only thing to remain will be patches of different colours on different parts of your body. For those like me, who are die hard fan of this festival, must be finding it really hard to get back in their normal skin colour and complexion. With experience you must know that it will take another day or two to return to the original colours, so don’t worry.
We Own The Night. . .
This James Gray movie is the story of two brothers Joseph [Mark Wahlberg] and Bobby [Joaquin Phoenix], one a cop and the other running a night club. Bobby has deserted his family name and legacy of being a cop, to own a night club. He spends his nights with his eye candy girlfriend [Eva Mendes] indulging in alcohol, drugs, gambling. Their paths coincides when their father Burt [Robert Duvall] who is also a cop, alongwith Joseph asks Bobby for information about Vadim, member of a dangerous Russian criminal underworld. Now will Bobby help his family or side up with Vadim? Will Joseph take on his own brother in order to crack down the mafia? All these questions are answered in the movie in a very swift and suave manner.
Continue reading “We Own The Night. . .”
10,000 B.C. . .
Going for an epic movie always keeps me excited. After ‘Braveheart’ and ‘Gladiator’, ‘Lord Of the Rings’ enchanted me so much that it just need a tag of epic movie for me to watch any crap [am a Lord of the Rings fan, till the very last breath and can’t have enough of it no matter how many times I watch it]. And frankly speaking it’s an obsession about which I regret a lot, just because it takes me to a movie hall to watch crap stuff like ‘10,000 B.C.’
Vantage Point. . .
Telling a conventional story with different perspectives is not something new. But it is different and it is rare. So this very fact makes one curious to check out what the movie is all about. The Vantage Point narrative is about the attempted assassination of the president of US, and the same attempt is shown from five different perspectives.
The ‘K Line’. . .
Increasing cases of road rage is a cause of concern. In my earlier post ‘Raging Road Rage’ I tried to talk a little about the conditions on the roads, which are getting worse everyday. In that post a lot of aspects were missed out about which we may talk sometime later. But there is one thing which I can’t afford to miss out when I talk about Delhi’s roads and i.e. Delhi’s famous ‘K-Line’. Last year the final tally of those who received ‘moksha’ at the hands of blue line bus drivers was somewhere around 120 and this year also the account has already opened.
Michael Clayton
The movie is nominated for the Oscars. Do I need to say anything more? I don’t know if it will be able to bag one or not? But I do know that this time again Clooney has scored a home run. Looks like this man is swore not to do anything wrong, when it comes to choosing a role and selecting a script. Continue reading “Michael Clayton”
The ‘V’ Day
It just happens by shear chance, that we set out to find something and ends up finding something else. Yesterday I was at the Archie’s, looking for a birth day card for a friend. Although the hunt for the card didn’t went down very well, but I came across one guy purchasing some cards. There was something interesting about the purchase which he was making, as he was asking the salesman if he will get any discount on buying a dozen cards of the same lot [initially I thought he was on the annual card shopping spree]? He eventually bought a whole pack of cards saying ‘SORRY’.
Fully ‘Fools Gold’
The treasure hunting season is back again. After Nicholas Cage did it twice in National Treasure, this time Matthew McConaughey is doing the honours. But he ain’t Nicholas Cage even of ‘Book of Secrets’, forget about ‘National Treasure-I’.
Its Rambo now. . .
It is over a year when Stallone came up with Rocky Balboa, a tribute to
his cult on-screen boxer avatar. It is good not to talk about the movie which was a moderate ending to a larger than life character, with which people related. People also related to another on screen avatar of Stallone i.e. war veteran John Rambo, who had his share of disappointments in life. So this year he tried to bid adieu to this one as well.
Mad-‘Mad Money’
What happens when you plan to steal some money from a bank? In the movie world there are not many options, either you have Reservoir Dogs, Ocean’s Eleven [alright it was about 3 casinos, but loot is a loot] or you have Mad Money.
Not so Treasury
It all began in 2004 with the finding of one treasure by Benjamin Gates [Nicholas Cage],based upon the Gates family legend. In 2007 the legacy continues and our treasure protector [claimed by him in the first movie] is back. But sorry to say he is not back with a vengeance.