I wanted to set aside this part of my weekend to talk about how The Namesake hit home with me. Not my Indian self, not my multiple, but the whole of me ( Read more... )

I watched Irreversible. Yes the 2002 French Film by Gaspar Noe. My best friend thought I was nuts. He, too, probably heard about the same horrible classic scenes I did. (Namely the killing with the fire extinguisher and the loooooong rape scene). While I acknowledge how horrible they were, they were, I thought I would be so traumatized that I ( Read more... )

Some draw parallels between Nishabd and Lolita. Others compare it to American Beauty. While there are some elements of both movies there, I personally think that the most similar Western movie to this one is Damage. Except the most scandalous parts of Damage (meaning the girl as the fiancee of the protagonist's son (he has actually a daughter), ( Read more... )

Like its informal "predecessor" The Devil's Backbone, as Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro calls it, this movie is better understood if you know the historical context of post-civil war Spain, and the ruthless dictatorship of Francisco Franco. It is a microcosm (Ofelia's imaginary world) within a microcosm (what is happening in real life during ( Read more... )

I watched last saturday The Notorious Bettie Page about the life of the Pin-Up queen of the 50. The protagonist was Gretchen Mol, an actress whose name I have heard a lot about, but never actually have paid attention to. She makes a great acting here, and imitates the accent of Tennessee very well (and considering I was in Tennessee a few months ( Read more... )

There is a new version of The Omen coming... Basically, I saw the old trilogy...

So I started speculating a little... Basing my self on the looks of the kid that plays Damien here, I think Damien in the third instalment, The Final Conflict, should be Jake Gyllenhaal or Jared Leto.

Jake looks more manly...

Me and my silly speculations.

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Match Point, because ( Read more... )

I have never seen The Sixth Sense before. Ever. But someone told me the end of the movie and it sort of ruined to me, because I could find explanations for certain situations right before the time they were supposed to be revealed. Now I will never know if it was unpredictable or not ( Read more... )

It is titled in the US of A as Minimal Stories. The literal title is Intimate Stories. It tells three stories which cross together at some points of the movie ( Read more... )

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