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Drug War (Chinese Title: Du zhan, 2013)
Drug War (Chinese Title: Du zhan, 2013) Dir.: Johnny To Johnny To is a veteran Hong Kong director whose films have captivated audiences for years and has been on the wrong side of the authorities often...
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This is Not a Film (2011)( Persian)
This is Not a Film (2011) Dir.:Jafar Panahi But this is a film! Jafar Panahi is the celebrated Iranian filmmaker who has made films like The White Balloon and Offside which have antagonized the...
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Me and You (“Io e te” original Italian title, 2012)
Lorenzo(Jacopo Olmo Antinori) is just another teenager growing up in Rome but his mother does not think so.Like any modern teens he has issues, some of which stem from the fact that its his fathers...
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Iron Man 3
Dir.:Shane Black Tony Stark is the kind of billionaire inventor playboy genius that must make Richard Branson and Larry Ellison feel like under achievers or worse-downright wimpish. “I’m Tony Stark. I...
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Cambodia, Kampuchea-In Pictures.
The following is the text of my original blog entry titled,” The Sin of Tourism in Cambodia” The past ten years I have travelled a fair bit (by my own pitifully low standards), even to the extent of...
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
A new Mohsin Hamid novel is reason for celebration and that is saying a lot for a writer who has written only three novels till date including this one.His first novel Moth Smoke (2000) was insanely...
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Trance (2013)
Dir.:Danny Boyle Rembrandt’s Sea of Galilee, Caravaggio’s Nativity, Vermeer’s The Concert,Modigliani’s Woman with a Fan.What do these famous paintings have in common? They were all stolen and are out...
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Spring Breakers(2013)
Dir.: Harmony Korine We already know that America has a dangerous gun culture, two days back a 5 year old boy shot dead his 2 year old sister with a real gun designed for children.We already know that...
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Evil Dead (2013)
Dir.: Fede Alvarez It comes billed as “The Most Terrifying Film You Will Ever See”, but it’s not one even by a long margin.The only moments of shock and horror are at the stupidity of the characters...
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Go Goa Gone (2013)
Dir.:Raj and D.K. Finally a Bollywood flick that beats Hollywood at its own game.Yes read that again if you wish,I mean it.While Zombie movies are struggling in Hollywood this film takes the Zombie...
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Dir.:J.J.Abrams JJ Abrams had wisely declined to direct this film initially, having delivered a critically acclaimed blockbuster reboot of the hallowed franchise in 2009.He however relented and we have...
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Aurangzeb (2013)
Dir.:Atul Sabharwal Seeta aur Geeta meets Ram aur Shyam meets Don with shades of Karan Arjun for the final garnish, directed of course by that giant of a movie director who understood the need for...
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The Great Gatsby(2013)
Dir.:Baz Luhrmann If you have seen how Mr Baz Luhrmann looks in the publicity photos you will get a clue as to how this film is likely to turn out.He looks like he just walked out of Gatsby’s party,...
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Ek Ghar (Kannada Title “Mane”)(1991)
Dir.:Girish Kasaravalli Rajanna (Naseeruddin Shah) has just moved to the city with his wife Gauri (Deepti Naval) and is looking for a house.He has dreams of living a life of marital bliss away from the...
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Hangover Part III (2013)
Dir.:Todd Phillips They should have left the Wolfpack alone! But they did not and we have this positive spoiler of an outrageously funny first film. Everybody is a victim here, the cast, the director...
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani(2013)
Dir.:Ayan Mukherjee Ayan Mukherjee made an atypical debut film, Wake Up Sid(2009) in which its dishy protagonist Ranbir Kapoor, played an overprivileged youngster coming of age.That movie was a success...
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Shobdo (Bengali) (Sound,2013)
Dir.:Kaushik Ganguly Nobody knows the name of Jack Donovan Foley and nobody will know Tarak’s either.But Tarak is happy to do his work, he is a Foley artist working in the Bengali film industry, he...
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The Hunt (Denmark,2012)
Dir.:Thomas Vinterberg There is a lot of evil in the world and nothing gets people more upset and mad than sexual abuse of children.Capturing the Friedmans, a 2003 documentary by Andrew Jarecki was a...
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World War Z (2013)
Dir.:Marc Forster First they had a chance to fall in love with humans in Warm Bodies and then they made a Bollywood debut in Go Goa Gone.Zombies are certainly having a good run on the big screen and in...
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Raanjhanaa (2013)
Dir.:Aanand Rai During intermission as I sauntered out to take a leak and grab a drink, I was thinking of calling my father in Kolkata to check out this film.When Suniel Shetty made an appearance as an...
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