Archive for July, 2005

Many theaters have been less than enthusastic about moving to Digital Projection systems for the lack of any standards. They were too afraid to invest $100K on a digital projector only to find it rendered incompatiable or obsolete in a format war between studios. Not anymore.
In 2002 all major studios (Universal, Disney, Warner, Fox, […]

Google Moon

21Jul05

Pushing the envelop further to distance itself from nearest rivals Yahoo Maps, Mapquest and MSN Mappoint - Google boldly goes skyward to Moon!
Zoom further and you will see what the US government has been hiding from us all along! Yes, the very fact that moon is made of cheese!

Over the weekend, I watched 3 critically acclaimed films:
- Danny Boyle’s ‘Trainspotting’, and
- Multi Oscar nominated ‘Very Long Engagement’
- David Cohen’s multi oscar winning Fargo

Very Long Engagement - From the director of Amelie - the lesser said about ‘Very long… ‘ the better - it may have gorgeous cinematography, wonderful production values and great direction […]

Dark Water

14Jul05

Another rehash of Hideo Nakata’s Japanese Horror flick following the heels for Ringu and Grudge. Hideo Nakata who has great success with creepy modern day horrors, meaning, you don’t see his characters locked up in a vampire infested 18th century castle in nowhere land - but his character carry cell phones, live and work as […]

City of God

12Jul05

IMDB Tagline: Fight and you’ll never survive….. Run and you’ll never escape
This is one gun happy film, both hard hitting and brutal in its portrayal of Rio’s slum gangs. Starts out as a total mess, where you find it hard to recognize who is who or what the heck is going on. But slowly the […]

Maria full of Grace follows Maria, an innocent flower girl, as she steps into a dangerous world of drug trafficking. Before you conjure up blood soaked gun throttling mafia gang buster - no, it has none of that, what it has is a simple story of a strong willed girl surviving some of her darkest […]

See ‘Saw’

07Jul05

‘Saw’ is a nail biting Indie thriller set in a single room with just 2 principle characters. One of the sleeper hits of 2004, this Australian film helmed by 27 year old debutant director James Wan, manages to keep you guessing with its riveting screenplay.
Written as an ultra low budget flick ($22,000) it got the […]

Has Maniratnam signed on to direct Rs 300 crore The Mahabharta in a trilogy format, ala The Lord of the Rings ?
Hard to believe this Times of India report
But harder to believe is that Badshah Khan (Shah Rukh) and Amir Khan has signed up to play the lead - hmm… some things don’t add […]


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