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We don't need another Heroes
Heroes is a Bollywood movie and a jingoistic attempt at a military recruitment campaign. A fatuous, blustering, simple minded melodramatic mess that could be called a Top Gun ripoff were it not so insufferably sentimental and unintentionally hilarious....
Posted on October 30, 2008 2:21 PM | Tagged with: heoes salmankhan preityzinta bollywood
Absurdist Belgian noir
Last night I watched Eldorado, which is showing as part of the London Film Festival. It was directed by and stars Bouli Lanners and was described as "absurdist Belgian noir", which was good enough to sell me a ticket....
Posted on October 24, 2008 9:38 AM | Tagged with: belgian absurdist noir film lff londonfilmfestival
Blogging Bollywood: Bachna Ae Haseeno Review
Phew, is it getting warm in here, or is it just me? Bachna Ae Haseeno is wall to wall women. Not wearing many clothes. It's not just my temperature rising, either - so is Ranbir Kapoor's. And the women, as we have established, are already incredibly hot....
Posted on August 31, 2008 10:25 PM | Tagged with: bipasha basu,bollywood,deepika padukone,minissha lamba,ranbir kapoor,review
Blogging Bollywood: Kismat Konnection review
Kismat Konnection (also Kismet Konnection) (IMDb / Wikipedia ) Kismat Konnection (named spelled all krazy to satisfy the fortune tellers of Bollywood - more on the mysterious practice of numerology and how it relates to box office success) is a......
Posted on July 25, 2008 6:35 AM | Tagged with: bollywood,kismat konnection,kismet konnection,review,shahid kapoor,vidya balan
Blogging Bollywood: Krrish review
Krrish stars the musclebound and supremely flexible green-eyed hunk Hrithik Roshan as a feral, mountain dwelling superman. He wears the expression of a gay woodland sprite, startled at every turn by his own special powers. He hangs out with a gang of children and his grandmother, a grey haired, bespectacled old lady played by the regal Rekha...
Posted on July 24, 2008 7:38 AM | Tagged with: bollywood,film,hrithik roshan,krrish,priyanka chopra,review
Blogging Bollywood: Part 3
Your next five Bollywood Rules of Engagement: 6. Actors and actresses are to be judged by different criteria to their Hollywood counterparts. Usual recruits include the ranks of the Miss World competition, or offspring of already famous acting parents. Women......
Posted on July 17, 2008 7:58 PM | Tagged with: acting,bollywood,film,india
Blogging Bollywood: Part Two
Here's your first five Bollywood Rules of Engagement - things to bear in mind before you sit down to watch the latest from the subcontinent: 1. Bollywood movies are long. Very long. Go to see the early showing at the......
Posted on July 10, 2008 12:15 AM | Tagged with: bachchan,bollywood,rules
Blogging Bollywood
A Western viewer comes to a Bollywood film loaded with preconceptions and expectations - syrupy melodrama, song and dance extravaganzas, cheap sets and wooden acting. Perhaps low production values? Scenes where the girls get drenched in the rain? Men with......
Posted on July 9, 2008 1:33 AM | Tagged with: bollywood,bombay,hindi,india,masala,mumbai
Don't get mad, get Maddin
Before I went to see Guy Maddin's latest film, My Winnipeg, I read about it on the BFI website. I read it twice. The review didn't make any sense to me. When I arrived, I read the BFI handout given away at all their screenings. I was confused, and still didn't know what to expect. I had onlybooked the tickets because the poster looked good. Then Guy Maddin appeared and introduced the film. A friendly, avuncular character, he riffed his way easily through the introductory speech, cracking jokes about his aunt and the chance to win tickets to Winnipeg....
Posted on July 3, 2008 11:00 PM | Tagged with: bfi,guymaddin,winnipeg
C'mon girls!
I braved the chattering hoards to see Sex & The City. As we walked in Kate wondered aloud if people might think she was my beard - the audience was 95% chicks, whiling away the time until the chick-flick started by gossiping loudly through the trailers and adverts. Whole rows were filled instantly when parties of 20 turned up. Their anticipation was palpable....
Posted on June 6, 2008 7:49 AM | Tagged with: sexandthcity tv
"I love you, but I'm going to mace you in the face!"
This one has got a heart. Hard to pinpoint, perhaps, but it's in there - the three brothers played by Wes Anderson regulars Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman and new guy Adrian Brody are looking for it too. Coming from a typically Andersonian broken home, they are on a quest to rescue their mother from a convent in the Himalayas....
Posted on November 25, 2007 9:47 PM | Tagged with: darjeeling,india,wesanderson
Like gonzo journalism on acid
Shrooms is described by a Zoo magazine hack as "Blair Witch on acid". Sounds like she's missed the point somewhat. Lazy journalism, hackneyed cliches and meaningless soundbites, on top of all the cheap and tawdry shots of naked soap stars - doesn't really add up to an attractive package does it, Zoo?...
Posted on November 21, 2007 9:57 PM | Tagged with: bus,lazyjournalism,poster,shrooms,zoo
In Control
Is Ian Curtis just another spoiled rock star, consumed by his own ego to the detriment of all around him, and his subsequent legend yet another bloated entry in the long list of over-hyped, prematurely dead musicians? You could certainly......
Posted on November 6, 2007 2:43 PM | Tagged with: iancurtis,joydivision,manchester
The empire line
As a consequence of having 2 wisdom teeth out, and an aching face, if not necessarily one that was swollen up like a sea cow, I found myself with half a day sitting around at home, popping nurofen like a crack addict. So what better to do than finally watch David Lynch's latest headf*ck "Inland Empire"....
Posted on October 10, 2007 10:11 PM |
In the Shadow of the Moon
I was lucky enough to see a preview of the documentary "In the Shadow of the Moon, which will be showing at the London Film Festival in October. It was showing at the Rex cinema, a plush, velveteen theatre lurking at the bottom of some menacing red Lynchian corridors and stairs....
Posted on October 8, 2007 11:10 PM |
Hell yeah!
I saw Helvetica, the film last night with some like-minded typography wonks from The Guardian, and can say that it's entertaining, informative, revealing and suprisingly funny....
Posted on September 20, 2007 2:06 PM |
Bourne again
The Bourne series is the filmic equivalent of Bourne himself - frosty, tough, intruiging, paranoid. It's a also excellent. What makes it so good? I think it's the locations. They are almost all European. London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow. Cold, wintry,......
Posted on September 14, 2007 10:45 AM |
A Throw of Dice
I saw "A Throw of Dice" in the open air of Trafalgar Square last night, accompanied by a live soundtrack composed and performed by Nitin Sawhney and the London Symphony Orchestra....
Posted on August 31, 2007 9:51 AM |
Stu-Stu-Studio
I paid a visit to the BFI Southbank's* new Studio screening room last week. It utilises digital projecction, and as such is able to show vast numbers of films from the BFI's archive....
Posted on August 24, 2007 12:12 AM |
