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Bekas (2012)
Bekas (2012) Dir :Karzan Kader Bekas is the expanded version of a 28 minute film released in 2010 by the same director, which I have not seen, but after seeing this how I wish I had! It would have...
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Stoker (2013)
Dir:Chan-wook Park This is a year when Hollywood goes shopping to South Korea.PSY’s Ganganam Style is already an edifice of global pop culture and 2013 is the year when the top three Korean directors...
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
Oz The Great and Powerful (2013) Dir: Sam Raimi I warmed to the classic The Wizard of Oz quite late in life.The prospect of watching a fairytale with evil witches and a young girl in wonderland set to...
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Din Tai Fung
When we landed on the shores of Singapore last year we were told by our old friends that there is a restaurant in this food wonderland of a city state, where we are remembered every time they eat...
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The Croods (2013)
The Croods Dir: Kirk De Micco,Chris Sanders The Croods is a big budget animated film with an interesting premise in search of a story.It gives us a sequence after sequence of a cave-dweller family...
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Warm Bodies (2013)
Warm Bodies (2013) Dir:Jonathan Levine Its summertime in America, ok not really, since large swathes of the country are still blanketed under snow, but for Hollywood its about blockbuster time.Its that...
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The Gatekeepers (2012) (Shom’ray Ha’Saf-Hebrew Title)
The Gatekeepers (2012) (Shom’ray Ha’Saf-Hebrew Title) Dir: Dror Moreh The Gatekeepers is an Oscar nominated and much awarded documentary that brings together six former heads of Shin Bet, Ami Ayalon,...
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Promised Land (2013)
Dir:Gus Van Sant Its easy to see Promised Land just as the trailers promise.Namely as a film about the environmental hazards of drilling for natural gas using a process called fracking ( hydraulic...
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Django Unchained(2012)
Django Unchained(2012) Dir: John Smith A multiple Oscar winner is always the biggest gig in town.And if you are in a country where it is releasing much after its US opening, then its very easy to be...
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Side Effects (2013)
Side Effects (2013) Dir: Steven Soderbergh Soderbergh is a master filmmaker in command of both its art and craft.Here he paints the background and foreground with élan. The background is familiar, that...
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Midnight’s Children(2013)
Midnight’s Children(2013) Dir: Deepa Mehta There is a good reason why Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude has not been made into a film.Garcia has wisely not sold the film rights to...
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Roger Ebert 1942-2013
Roger Ebert 1942-2013 I discovered Roger Ebert in 2003 when I was living in Africa and started engaging with films in a deeper way.His review appears on top of the IMDB external reviews page and I...
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Sanabi (Manipuri, 1994) English Title: The Grey Mare
Sanabi(Manipuri, 1994) English Title :The Grey Mare Dir: Aribam Syam Sharma Aribam Syam Sharma is one of the unsung heroes of Indian cinema.He hails from the North Eastern state of Manipur which barely...
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In the House 2012 (Original French Title: Dans la maison)
In the House 2012 (Original French Title: Dans la maison) Dir.:Francois Ozon In the House starts innocently.We see a bespectacled teacher sitting and eating a snack absentmindedly. He is listening to...
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The Visitor (Bengali Title: Agantuk 1991)
The Visitor (Bengali Title: Aguntuk 1991) Dir.: Satyajit Ray A letter arrives from an uncle who left home to lead a nomadic life 35 years ago saying that he wishes to spend a few days with his niece at...
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Oblivion 2013
Oblivion 2013 Dir.:Joseph Kosinski For its first thirty minutes I thought I was watching Top Gun and said a silent prayer for its director Tony Scott who committed suicide last year.Tom Cruise was...
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Nautanki Saala 2013
Nautanki Saala 2013 Dir:Rohan Sippy Once upon a time there was film called Jaane Bhi Do Yaron which had an epic Mahabharata scene.That scene had a dead man playing Draupadi. Never has a dead man made...
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Anarchy in ( muslim) India
Reblogged from travelerreport: Considered as the anarchists of Islam, fakirs are muslim ( male) wanderers who live on charity and the love of Allah. They are not magicians who perform "miracles" such...
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Art Stage Singapore 2013
They said no cameras allowed.That means only phone cameras allowed.I was furious to see many with their serious cameras shooting away.I had a Galaxy Note with me and tried to make do.Putting the...
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Oblivion 2013
Reblogged from mostlycinema: Oblivion 2013 Dir.:Joseph Kosinski For its first thirty minutes I thought I was watching Top Gun and said a silent prayer for its director Tony Scott who committed suicide...
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