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 […]

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 […]

‘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 […]

IMDB Plot Outline: Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a US Secret Service agent (Penn) is assigned to protect an interpreter (Kidman) who overhears an assassination plot.
Sydney Pollack ’s Interpreter is the first movie to be shot inside the UN Complex in NYC (even Hitchcock was denied permission for his […]

Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s films are known for its music. 1942 A love Story (RD Burman), Kareeb (Anu Malik?), Mission Kashmir (Shakhar Ehsaan Roy) had extraordinary music. His latest film based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya’s classic bengali novel Parineeta, simply rocks! Listen to it at Raaga.com.
Sonu Nigam croons, lulls, mesmerizes and Shreya Ghosal transports you 2 […]

Maybe creators get better with time and experience. I always like to see older work of my favorite creators. In books, I love certain authors Sidney Sheldon, Chase, Alistair MacLean, Ludlum, Crichton and latest to join the list is Dan Brown with his spectacular page turner Da Vince Code […]

One of the evergreen Indian films of all time - Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The one with pure heart will conquer the girl) released in 1995 completed its 500th week in Bombay’s Maratha Mandhir Cinema Hall. Apparently it is still running full houses on weekends and public holidays!
This is the film that started the trend […]

I came across an indie movie ‘Let’s Talk’ from India at my local Mercer Island Library. The premises sounded interesting, so I picked it up last week and watched it yesterday. It is a small budget movie, shot with 3 actors and 2 rooms. I have a fascination with movies shot with limited resources, […]

Today I upgraded my trusty old Photoshop CS into CS2.
After initial installation (took forever) the interface popped up. Very sleek, the first thing you notice is smooth icons and well rounded tabs. Looking under the hood, I found the menu has changed a lot - CS had a lot of options CS2 has a lot […]

Forbes today released its Top Airports in the World for 2004. I was casually reading the report, and to my surprise I have visited all but 2 of the top ten airports worldwide!! I didn’t even realize I was a world traveler
So I thought I’ll write what I felt walking thro these […]

Panasonic HVX200 becomes the first camera under $100,000 to record high-definition 1080/24p. The ONLY other camera is Sony’s CineAlta, a $100,000 camera which, Lucas and Rodriguez used in ‘Star Wars II’ and ‘Once upon a time in Mexico’. They both use Sony exclusvely

Also this $5995 camera does what a $65,000 Varicam does - variable frame […]

WOW - what a ride!

This is one of the hilarious movies I have seen in recent times - I don’t ever recall laughing so much for 3 full hours.
The script is so expertly weaved from a simple story - not even an unique story, but the dialogues, timing and excellent supporting […]

Martin Scorcese’s ode to excentric Millionarer Howard Huges.

We watched Robots on the first day. I loved ‘Ice-Age’ and its quazi indie roots. This was one of those gems with was made outside of Hollywood.