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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Fantasy’ Category
On January - 15 - 2010
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 - 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 - 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 [...]
On December - 9 - 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Music: Carter Burwell
Reasons to watch: Watch it if you have all the time in the world to waste.
Reasons not to watch: DO NOT watch this movie if you have already read the book.
Storyline: For Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) life has always [...]
On July - 27 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Fiction, Abstract, Weird, Rotoscoped
Cast: Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Wiley Wiggins
Direction:Richard Linklater
Music: Glover Gill
Reasons to watch: Waking Life is a digitally enhanced live action rotoscoped film. It is a think-bag. And it has Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in small roles And Richard Linklater himself. And the film is [...]
On July - 22 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Sci-fi, Drama, Fiction
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law
Direction: Steven Spielberg
Music: John Williams,
Reasons to watch: It is one of the most spine-chilling sci-fi stories. It is unbearable and the worst part is, that the horror does not come because the setting is horriffic. It comes from the minute probability that all this [...]
On July - 20 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Action, Adventure
Cast: Kurt Russel, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Alexis Cruz
Direction: Roland Emmerich
Music: David Arnold composes a great sci-fi soundtrack – rich and ominous
Reasons to watch: Vintage sci-fi, Jaye Davidson as Ra..! Excellent graphics considering a pre – CGI era movie.
Reasons not to: Poor characterization, the movie suffers from the [...]
On July - 9 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Direction: Richard Linklater
Reasons to watch: This movie is a sequel to Before Sunrise. The guy on that train, and that french girl in Vienna meet up again. 9 years have passed since that one night. The events are in real time.
Reasons not to: If you didn’t like [...]
On July - 4 - 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Direction: Richard Linklater
Reasons to watch: Better dialogues have never been written. The characters don’t act. They just are. Incredible direction, and marvelous script. It brings out your little mushy corner. Ever so subtly.
Reasons not to: Could be monotony if you don’t identify with the concept of the [...]
