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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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Thriller’ Category
On February - 7 - 2010
On February - 4 - 2010
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane
Director: Christian Alvart
Music: Michl Britsch
Reasons to watch: You absolutely have nothing else to do.
Reasons not to watch: You wouldn’t want to verbally abuse yourself would you? Well that is just what you might end up doing for watching this movie.
Storyline: The Oscar-winning actress Renée [...]
On January - 27 - 2010
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. [...]
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 - 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 - 4 - 2010
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Burton Perez, Alex Veadov
Director: James Gray
Reasons to watch: Have some time to kill? Then watch it.
Reasons not to watch: There are better movies of the same genre out there.
Storyline: Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) is the outcast in his family and as 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, [...]
