The Movie Analyst

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  • Valentine’s Day [2010]

    Language: English
    Genre: Comedy, Romance
    Cast: Jessica Alba, Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Taylor Lautner, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, Hector Elizondo, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Music: John Debney
    Reasons to watch: The star-cast.
    Reasons not to watch: Absolutely no realism. Stone-age humor.
    Storyline: It’s Valentine’s Day and love [...]

  • Fourth Spiderman movie officially goes 3D

    The word is out Spidey fans! According to a statement by the distributor, the Spider-Man reboot by Sony has officially gone 3D. The new movie from the franchise is set for a worldwide release on July 3rd 2012.
    The movie which is still untitled will go into production later this year and director Marc Webb who [...]

  • Screen Gems and Universal revamp their release dates

    With a barrage of movies coming up this year and the following year, Screen Gems has changed the release dates of 5 of it’s movies and Universal has shifted the release date of it’s much expected Repo Men.
    Repo Men
    Director: Miguel Sapochnik
    Cast: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker
    Previous Release date: April 2nd 2010
    New Release date: March 19th 2010
    Reason [...]

  • 67th Golden Globe Awards Winners

    Best Motion Picture (Drama) — Avatar

    Director: James Cameron
    Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez
    Points: Avatar, the ’so called’ future of cinema is finally out. James Cameron’s confounding epic is a mix of mind-boggling visuals and eye rolling silly stuff. For all the pre-release banter about how this movie was [...]

  • Ashley Greene poses nude for Sports Illustrated

    Ashley Greene poses for Sports Illustrated!

The Heartbreak Kid [2007]

Language: English
Cast: Ben Stiller, Malin Akerman, Michelle Monaghan
Reasons to Watch: Hilarious movie, Farrelly Brothers’ work, Ben Stiller typical
Reasons not to: Same old love crap.
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Music: No music… Supplementary.
Storyline: Guy waiting for a long time for the perfect person to come along. When she finally does, he doesn’t spend a lot of time [...]

The Kite Runner [2007]

Language: English/ Urdu/ Russian
Genre: Drama
Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub, Homayoun Ershadi
Direction: Marc Forster
Music Direction: Alberto Iglesias
Reasons to Watch: Excellent music, Amazing Acting, Great story.
Reasons not to watch: You think that all middle eastern people are terrorists!
Story: A young boy, Amir is distanced from his child hood servant friend, Hassan due to troubles started [...]

Notting Hill [1999]

Language: English (British)
Genre: Romantic, Chick flick
Cast: Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, Alec Baldwin in a guest appearance
Reasons to Watch: Grant and Roberts at their best, Wonderful dialogues with deeper meanings and Picturesque shots of Britain (and London in general)
Reasons not to: Another romantic comedy with a run-of-the-mill ending.
Director: Roger Michell
Music: Befitting [...]

Iron Man [2008]

Language: English

Genre: Action/Comic book Adaptation/ Adventure/ Comedy

Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow

Direction: Jon Favreau

Music Direction: Ramin Djawadi

Reasons to Watch: Robert Downey Jr., Comic book movie, a great action adventure.

Reasons not to watch: You have the FBI surrounding your house for multiple charges.

Story: A wealthy weapons maker(Robert Downey Jr.) is taken captive [...]

88 Minutes [2007]

Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller

Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski

Direction: Jon Avnet

Music Direction: Edward Shearmur

Reasons to Watch: Al Pacino!!

Reasons not to watch: Not very captivating, pretty bad acting

Story: A forensic psychiatrist and college professor(Al Pacino) convicts a murderer to a death sentence with his findings. Before the murderer’s execution, Pacino receives a call threatening only 88 [...]

300 [2006]

Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro
Direction: Zack Snyder
Music Direction: Tyler Bates
Reasons to Watch: Gerald Butler, Great Backgrounds, Amazing dialogues, Incredible Acting, Great choreography of fight scenes.
Reasons not to watch: Huh, You haven’t watched it already???
Story: King Leonidas (Gerard Butler), a man who does not know the meaning of defeat, along [...]

Mr. Brooks [2007]

Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Cast: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt
Direction: Bruce A. Evans
Music Direction: Ramin Djawadi
Reasons to Watch: New storyline, Interesting twists, Well directed.
Reasons not to watch: You got a meeting with God.
Story: A serial killer (Kevin Costner) with an alter ego (William Hurt) tries to quench his obsession with murder with one last [...]

Santosh Subramanian [2008]

Language: Tamil
Genre: Romantic
Cast: Genelia D’Souza, Jayam Ravi, Prakash Raj.
Direction: Raja
Music Direction: Devi Sri Prasad.
Reasons to watch: Different storyline, Good comic sequences
Reasons not to watch: Typicalism, same old things same old things same old things….
Story: Santosh (Jayam Ravi) is a guy who has all his decisions made by his father (Prakash Raj). Although, he is disgusted [...]

Fool n Final [2007]

Language: Hindi
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Paresh Rawal, Sunny Deol,Chunky Pande.
Direction: Ahmed Khan
Music Direction: Himesh Reshamiya
Reasons to watch: Shahid’s dance numbers. Otherwise there is no reason to watch this flick.
Reasons not to watch: Horrible direction, Confusing and boring plot, Terrifying acting.
Story: Choubey (Paresh Rawal) and his neice Tina(Ayesha) and small time robbers. Raja (Shahid [...]

My Sassy Girl [2008]

Language: Korean
Cast: Jun Ji-hyun, Cha Tae-hyun
Reasons to Watch: Very east-asian-ly Funny!, Great Plot, Right amounts of romance at the right time.
Reasons not to: You have to read through subtitles
Director: Kwak Jae-yong
Music: Pleasingly sufficient. Shin Seung Hun, others.
Storyline: A college student, Gyeon-woo, encounters an extremely strange super-drunk woman and her responsibility automatically falls on this [...]

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