Language: English

Genre: Rom-Com/Family/Chick Flick

Cast: Lance Bass & Joey Fatone (from NSYNC), Emmanuelle Chriqui

Direction: Eric Bross

Music: NSYNC, Al Green, Britney Spears, Vitamin C, Melissa Lefton, Jessica Folker

Reasons to watch: NSYNC, cute storyline, good music, a mild take on the influence of media

Reasons not to: Weak acting and weaker plot, predictability and mediocrity rules the roost here

Storyoline: Kevin(Lance Bass) is an advertising executive who meets a girl(Emmanuelle Chriqui) on a train. While they talk about petty things, cupid somehow gives Kevin the signals that she is the one for him. He however is foolish enough not to ask either her name or her phone number. In a frantic attempt to find her, he comes up with posters leading her to him. The media finds this interesting and runs a story on him. The matters worsen when Kevin has to find that one call from a number of fake callers pretending to be Her. At this moment his friends step in, and then everything goes berserk, from bad to worse.

Kevin and his friends spend the rest of the movie, finding the girl and in the process, finding more about themselves. Do they find her? Hmm.. Find out for yourself.

Climax Handling: Predictable yet cute

Points: A not-so-bad performance from singers of NSYNC, amazing soundtrack, a little take on the make-and-break powers of the media, this is one movie where the supporting actors support the movie more than the main lead.

Rating: 5/10

Comment: Worth a dekko. Well at least a casual one..

Language: English

Genre: Drama/Romance/Chick-Flick

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron

Direction: Pat O’Connor

Music: Stevie Nicks, Enya, Robbie Williams, Amanda Ghost, K.D.Lang and more

Reasons to watch: Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves, great supporting actors too

Reasons not to: The acting leaves something to ask for, so do the story and the direction

Storyline: Nelson (Keanu Reeves) is a high-flying, cold, way-too-confident advertising executive who bumps into the free spirited Sara (Charlize Theron) in a DMV test. Sara judges Nelson as an overworked jerk offers him to stay with her for a month as her ‘November’, to teach him the ‘lesser’ lessons in life. Although reluctant initially, Nelson is pestered into living with Sara after losing a campaign, his job and his wife in a fit of rage. Gradually Nelson begins to fall for Sara, but unlike her other ‘months’, Sara falls for ‘November’ Nelson too. A startling discovery changes everything that Nelson had begun to believe in, and everything Sara stood for.
Will this ‘Sweet’ November last, or will it wither away like the pages of a calendar? What lessons life has in store for Nelson, and Sara as well? Can love and sacrifice coexist, or love and success dwell together?
Go watch the movie for the answers..

Climax Handling: The climax is beautiful, tearful and thought-provoking.

Points: Charlize Theron stands out and so does the use of myriad colors and characters, in this story which deserved better treatment

Rating: 7/10

Comment: A good movie for the love-lorn and the still-in-love both, a must however for overworked, self-obsessed people who are too occupied to discover life!

Language: English

Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy

Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Chris Wedge

Direction: Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha

Music: David Newman

Reasons to watch: Great CGI, believable characters, excellent voiceovers and one-liners, funny incidents with surprising character development

Reasons not to: No love stories or romantic angles involved(at least in this part)

Storyline: With the threat of the Ice Age looming over them, animals are immigrating to the south of the world which is warmer. Sid is a stupid Sloth that is left behind by his own family. Walking in his way, he meets Manfred, a grumpy mammoth who believes he is the last mammoth left and doesn’t care about the extinction and is going north. Sid, follows Manfred when he saves his life from Rhinos and in the middle of their journey, they find a human mother with her baby. The mother eventually dies but Sid decides to take care of the baby and return the baby for the humans. Manfred has to give into Sid’s plan and they take the help of Diego, a saber-tooth tiger, who claims to know the location of the human camp. Diego however is from a clan of saber-tooths who hate humans and want to kill the baby.

Adding to all this mayhem is an acorn-loving saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat, who pops on the screen time and again.

What happens when Manfred saves Diego’s life? Will they be able to save the baby from the claws of the saber-tooths? Will Scrat finally secure his beloved acorn? Watch the movie to know.

Climax Handling: There is no climax in the strict sense of the term, the movie ends on the similar notes as it begins.

Points: A very simple tale which touches the heart at times, few lessons to learn alongside some breathtaking animation and truly entertaining conversations

Rating: 9/10

Comment: The perfect family movie. Watch it for sure.

Followed by: Ice Age 2 and Ice Age 3

Language: English

Genre: Drama/Horror/Thriller/Book Adaptation

Cast: Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Burstyn

Direction: William Friedkin

Music: Steve Boeddeker

Reasons to watch: Vintage horror story, shocking visuals, stupendous performances

Reasons not to: Not as bloody or gory as modern day horror films, No out of the blue scenes

Storyline: Based on the 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist is the story of possession of Regan McNeil (Linda Blair), the 12 year old daughter of a visiting actress Chris McNeil (Ellen Burstyn) in Washington, D.C., by the devil himself. Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, she begins to exhibit strange symptoms and great violence. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her mother is referred to a priest Father Karras (Jason Miller) who is also a psychiatrist. He becomes convinced that Regan is possessed and he and another priest, Father Lancester Merrin (Max Von Sydow), experienced in exorcism must drive the spirit from Regan before it kills her.

Climax Handling: The climax is a long drawn, gruesome battle between good and evil, the exorcism brought alive by a mixture of emotions and horror.

Points: Claimed to be one of the scariest horror movies ever, this movie shocked audiences when it was released, way back in 1973

Rating: 9/10

Comment: Horror at its subtle best. Don’t watch it alone!