Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Michael Gambon, Ray Stevenson
Director: Albert Hughes & Allen Hughes
Music: Atticus Ross
Reasons to watch: Watch it for the climax and wonderful photography.
Reasons not to watch: Too many glitches that have ‘illogical’ written all over them.
Storyline: Denzel Washington (Eli) is a ‘walker’ on a mission. [...]
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On January - 27 - 2010
On January - 21 - 2010
Language: English
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan
Director: Guy Ritchie
Music: Hans Zimmer
Reasons to watch: Racy entertainer that keeps your mind ticking.
Reasons not to watch: No particular reason as to why you shouldn’t watch this movie.
Storyline: The mystery involves a heinous and aristocratic Blackwood (Mark [...]
On January - 19 - 2010
Language: Tamil
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Cast: Prasanna, Sibiraj, S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Yasmin, Ramya Rai
Director: Shakti S. Rajan
Music: James Vasanthan
Reasons to watch: A new concept for the Tamil audience.
Reasons not to watch: Painfully slow and unsubstantial first half. Completely worthless songs.
Storyline: Ravi (Prasanna) is an honest and ambitious person whose dream is to set up his own business. He is [...]
On January - 15 - 2010
Language: Tamil
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Cast: Karthik Sivakumar, Andrea, Reema Sen, Parthiban, Prathap K. Pothan
Director: K. Selvaraghavan
Music: G.V. Prakash Kumar
Reasons to watch: The pre – release hype and the efforts poured in by the technicians.
Reasons not to watch: Too long and amazingly CONFUSING!!!
Storyline: An archaeologist (Prathap K. Pothan) goes missing on a solitary mission to find the [...]
On January - 1 - 2010
Hopes rest high on 2010, just as it does for every following year. Every year, our expectations grow and so does the quality of movie-making driven by this fact. The following movies in the making are The Movie Analyst’s Top 20 flicks to watch out for in 2010.
1. The Book of Eli
Director: Allen Hughes, Albert [...]
On December - 31 - 2009
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 [...]
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 - 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 - 23 - 2009
Language: Tamil
Genre: Action
Cast: Vijay, Anushka Shetty, Salim Ghouse, Sanchita Padukone, Srihari, Sayaji Shinde
Director: B. Babusivan
Music: Vijay Antony
Reasons to watch: Only for hardcore Vijay fans who will accept anything that he does is practical and possible.
Reasons not to watch: Stale and obsolete storyline that lacks originality.
Storyline: Ravi aka Police Ravi (Vijay), idolizes Devaraj IPS (Sri Hari) [...]
On December - 17 - 2009
Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez
Director: James Cameron
Music: James Horner
Reasons to watch: Amazing VFX and photorealistic 3D imagery.
Reasons not to watch: Weak storyline that bores you as it progresses.
Storyline: It is 2154 and the focus is on Pandora – a planet few light [...]
