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White House Down(2013)
Dir.:Roland Emmerich Now Barrack Obama and family can watch the double bill in their personal movie theatre: Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down, back to back.Two films within a span of 2 months...
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The Lone Ranger (2013)
Dir.:Gore Verbinski Johnny Depp directed a film once.It was called The Brave and co-starred Marlon Brando along with Depp who played an impoverished American Indian, who agrees to make a snuff movie in...
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Lootera (2013)
Dir.:Vikramaditya Motwane Once upon a time, eons back Doordarshan used to show 30 minute short stories and one of them was about an eccentric painter who wanted to paint a masterpiece.This he does on a...
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Pacific Rim (2013)
Dir.:Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro does things his own way, takes his own risks and dreams his own dreams.Sometimes the result can be an all time great film like Pan’s Labyrinth and sometimes...
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)
Dir.:Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra As I lifted my aching bums from the seat after watching this film the uppermost thought in my mind was a silent thank you to the guardian angels of cinema.After all if this...
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My Mandela
It was October 1990.Still hot and muggy in Kolkata even at 9 am in the morning.Perhaps it was a holiday or I would have been in school.I was exactly 14 years old then.My house was on the way to the......
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c/o Sir (2013)
Dir.:Kaushik Ganguly For good education all you need is a blackboard and a good teacher.This is what Jayabrata Ray(Saswata Chatterjee) believes. He is a teacher in a reputed boarding school in the...
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D-Day (2013)
Dir.:Nikhil Advani Dawood Ibrahim is a like a ghost who refuses to go away.Every terrorist act in India must have his name involved as the logistics provider and possible perpetrator.However the act...
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Gaban, a Novel by Munshi Premchand
I read the book as a response to a challenge that my father threw at me on a recent visit to Kolkata. We were in the midst of a discussion and he quoted an article from a Hindi daily, one... Read More ›
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Disconnect (2013)
Dir.:Henry Alex Rubin A young couple grieving over the death of a child fall victim to cyber theft as the wife finds comfort in a chat room for those who have lost a loved one. A sensitive schoolboy...
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Before Midnight(2013)
Dir.:Richard Linklater This is one smart film.Even after being a fan of Before Sunset and Before Sunrise one cannot help being captivated by the chemistry between Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke all over...
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Attenborough’s Gandhi with my 5 year old
Reblogged from mostlycinema: "Why can't God make another Gandhiji? It will be good for our country" "Why don't you try to become like Gandhiji?" To the second question from my 5 year old daughter I...
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Bamako (2007) (Mali, In French with English Subs)
Dir.Abderrahmane Sissako This film must be a miracle.Never have I seen a film which gives us hard arguments and the soft context simultaneously.That Africa is a continent brutally sinned against is...
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Turbo (2013)
Dir.:David Soren Turbo, the latest family film from Dreamworks Animation is colorful, snappy and intermittently funny.Ok, quite funny considering how much my daughter and the rest of the kids in the...
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That Girl In Pinafore (2013) (Singapore, Chinese with Eng Subs)
Dir.: Chai Yee-Wei There has been a curios positive buzz about this film, even the library that I frequent has a charming little exhibition devoted to it.Now this film is a...
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Postcards from George Town, Penang
Once upon a time, in a Thai restaurant which was “hot” favourite of me and my wife, we used to order Penang curry when we were tired of Red/Yellow/Green.We assumed Penang was a part of Thailand.How...
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Elysium (2013)
Dir.:Niel Blomkamp Elysium looks like a pretty straight forward action sci fi caper in which Matt “Jason Bourne” Damon realizes the dream of an egalitarian society, fitted out in an exo-skeleton.But...
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Only God Forgives (2013)
Dir.:Nicolas Winding Refn This film created an uproar at Cannes.While some gave it a standing ovation it was booed by many others.Quite unevean praise for a director who won top direction award there...
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Ilo Ilo (2013, Singapore, Mandarin with Eng Subs)
Dir.:Anthony Chen Ilo Ilo tells a deceptively simple story with a lot of care and heart.The film is roughly set in the middle of the Asian financial crisis which also affected this small island...
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Jobs (2013)
Dir.:Joshua Michael Stern If he could, he would turn in his grave.If he could, he would call it as utterly tasteless as a Microsoft product.If he could, he would have redesigned the fonts of the...
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