Language: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Music: Alex Heffes
Reasons to watch: The element of surprise that hits you hard when you think you’ve got it all figured out.
Reasons not to watch: Unless you loathe Russell Crowe, you have every reason to watch it.
Storyline: Based on the similarly [...]
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On February - 7 - 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 - 4 - 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Director: Richard Kelly
Music: Win Butler, Regine Chassagne, and Owen Pallett of Canadian band Arcade Fire.
Reasons to watch: Only for Sci-fi maniacs and for people who like the show Deal Or No Deal!
Reasons not to watch: Offers nothing original.
Storyline: Based on a short story ‘Button, Button’ by Richard [...]
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 - 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 - 9 - 2009
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat & their camcorder.
Director: Oren Peli
Reasons to watch: Promises to scare the shit out of you.
Reasons not to watch: NOT for the weak-hearted!
Storyline: A young American couple, Katie and Micah realize that there are strange things happening (aka paranormal activity) in their house at night when they [...]
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 June - 30 - 2008
Language: Spanish
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Cast: Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Direction: Guillermo del Toro
Music: Javier Navarrete. Very impactful. Will especially help you because you have to read what is being spoken. Beautiful score.
Reasons to watch: Academy award winning movie with awesome CGI graphics. And very terrifying.
Reasons not to: Subtitles
Storyline: A little girl, Ofelia in [...]
On June - 25 - 2008
Language: French
Cast: Audrey Tautou
Direction: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Music: GOD! the French Accordions. Yann Tiersen IS GOD.
Reasons to watch: Watch for its screenplay. Watch it for its simplicity. Watch it for its shocking smoothening of cultural boundaries. Watch it to find a little bit of Amelie for yourself. This is a rare case where the movie is not [...]
