The year 2009 had a good mix of box-office disasters and blockbuster hits that sum up the Kollywood releases every year. The commercial ‘masala’ movies that were once the strong-point of the Tamil film industry seem to have lost their sheen among audiences, with visionary directors coming up with quality stuff that have raised the [...]
Archive for December, 2009
On December - 31 - 2009
On December - 30 - 2009
Language: English
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Cast: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin
Director: Nancy Meyer
Music: Hans Zimmer, Heitor Pereira
Reasons to watch: Meryl Streep’s performance is so heart warming.
Reasons not to watch: It just isn’t real. Doesn’t serve a wider audience.
Storyline: “It’s Complicated” ain’t that complicated as the title suggests. It is a middle-aged sex comedy but with more rom-com [...]
categories: English, Romantic Comedy
On December - 30 - 2009
Monsters, robots, 3D imagery and what not; 2009 was full of it all. Now that this year is done and dusted, let us take a peek into the list of movies that made it to the The Movie Analyst’s Top 10 Hollywood flicks of 2009.
10 – Where the Wild Things Are
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Paul Dano, [...]
On December - 29 - 2009
Did Katrina Kaif ever know that she would be making headlines when she quoted that she was an ardent fan of Twilight star Robert Pattinson?
Well, what she thought is totally unnecessary right now, because this has already made the headlines.
“I went and bought all the four books Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and ‘Breaking Dawn’. I [...]
categories: Snippets
On December - 28 - 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer
Director: Martin Scorsese
Official Site: http://www.shutterisland.com/
Capsule Look:
Easily the biggest and the most expected movie of 2010 – goes into the list of “unmissables”. Martin Scorsese gives life to Dennis Lehane’s psychic thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo in the lead. The two [...]
On December - 28 - 2009
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak, Ana de la Reguera, Jason Lee, Michelle Trachtenberg
Director: Kevin Smith
Official Site: http://copoutmovie.com/
Capsule look:
Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) are “partners-against-crime” in the NYPD. They go on a hunt for a memorabilia gangster, when Jimmy’s invaluable mint condition baseball card goes [...]
On December - 28 - 2009
The year 2009 was as usual a good mix of box-office disasters and blockbuster hits that sum up the Bollywood releases every year. But what definitely has improved in 2009, is the ‘quality’ of movies that have raised the standards in terms of story-telling and the whole concept of movie-making. The Movie Analyst presents to [...]
On December - 26 - 2009
Language: Hindi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast: Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani, Omi Vaidya
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Music: Shantanu Moitra
Reasons to watch: It is Christmas time and good laughs are guaranteed.
Reasons not to watch: Some scenes drill in the film’s message too often.
Storyline: Rancho (Aamir Khan), as it turns out, can do just about [...]
On December - 24 - 2009
Goa is an upcoming movie directed by Venkat Prabhu, the man who gave us the blockbuster hits, Chennai 600028 and Saroja. It is said to be a fun and frolic ‘jolly-good’ movie with an offbeat storyline. Venkat Prabhu has roped in his ‘regular cast’ for this movie – Jai, Premji Amaran, Vaibhav Reddy, Aravind Akash [...]
On December - 24 - 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke
Director: Chris Weitz
Music: Alex Patsavas
Reasons to watch: Taylor Lautner (whistles)!! This movie is only for hormonal twi-hard tween girls and for people who are suckers for romance.
Reasons not to watch: Rob Pattinson (bearable) and Kristen Stewart (totally unbearable)
Storyline: New Moon is the [...]
