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Saturday, May 25, 2013
By the time a franchise has reached its sixth instalment, you welcome it like an old friend and if it delivers on its brand promise, you are quite happy. When it came out in 2001, no one could have...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Narratives that move back and forth could sometimes get contrived, especially when there is a narrator involved, because the context that forces the narrator to open up his story may not always be...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Like most ambitious pieces of grandeur (or expensive high art), The Great Gatsby is most likely to evoke polarised responses. You will love it or hate it. It’s unapologetic about its runnin...
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May 18, 2013
There are no twists in Epic (3D), and you know how the fight between good and evil will probably end. But that’s alright, because the movie is still warm, funny, heart-rending and leaves yo...
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May 17, 2013
Why are stunt professionals so invisible in Hollywood? Is it because it’s the writers who dream up those action scenarios in the first place?
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May 10, 2013
Thoughts on Hitchcock’s Psycho, Gus Van Sant’s remake of the film, and the ruthlessly butchered version shown on television
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May 4, 2013
The censored version of Django Unchained arrives in China later this month. Ananth Krishnan looks at how Hollywood is willing to bow to the Chinese box office, even as local filmmakers wage an uphill battle to push the limits of expression.
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May 4, 2013
While writer-director Jeff Nichols said he was inspired by Mark Twain for Mud, the movie brought to mind Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and young Pip meeting the convict in the...
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April 27, 2013
A vivid presentation by legendary sound engineer Walter Murch on the dynamics of sound in film that leaves the audience transfixed.
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HYDERABAD,
April 24, 2013
Madhapur may be the epicentre of the city’s IT growth, but with nothing more than a single-screen movie theatre in the area, entertainment on the big screen is a far cry.The sole cinema hal...
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April 20, 2013
The story of generational disharmony is as old as the prehistoric times in which The Croods is set. Still, the latest DreamWorks animated film does infuse the tired subject of dysfunctional...
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April 13, 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch talks about coming on board the Starship Enterprise as he plays the villain in Star Trek Into Darkness
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April 6, 2013
The President of the United States in 2013, unlike his Nineties Hollywood avatars, takes quite a beating. Remember Harrison Ford in Air Force One (1997) got rid of the snarky terrorist by f...
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New Delhi,
May 18, 2013
Srinivasa Ramanujan’s life is being made into a film with Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel starring as the legendary mathematician while a Hollywood A-lister is set to play his mentor G.H...
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Thiruvananthapuram,
May 16, 2013
Meera Menon, a United States-based filmmaker, who has her roots in Kerala, won the inaugural Nora Ephron award at the Tribeca Film Festival. The filmmaker talks about her debut feature film Farah Goes Bang.
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LONDON,
May 9, 2013
British film director Bryan Forbes, whose work includes the original 1970s horror classic “The Stepford Wives,” has died at age 86 after a long illness, a family spokesman said Wednesday.Mat...
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May 4, 2013
As Star Trek Into Darkness opens a week ahead of its international release, Mini Anthikad-Chhibber takes a look at ten aspects of the swashbuckling space odyssey that made a lasting impact on science fiction and popular culture
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April 27, 2013
When Iron Man came out in 2008, its bright colours and brash and brilliant protagonist were a welcome change from all the angsty super heroes with their accompanying sombre palette. Iron...
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April 25, 2013
Richard Curtis has an uncanny ability to draw humour out of situations. With Martha and Mary, he wields his pen for a cause, but not compromising his desire to make the audience laugh
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April 20, 2013
You can visualise Stephenie Meyer doing the math: how many ways can a love triangle be worked, so that everyone involved is a good guy? Twilight’s already done and dusted the woman-vampire-...
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April 13, 2013
A dystopian future earth, evil space invaders, oh-so-very-stylish gadgetry… Oblivion samples many tropes from the sci-fi universe, and is worth seeing just for its production values: frame...
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April 6, 2013
K. Hariharan analyses the departure from traditional Hollywood screenplay principles in this year’s award-winning films.
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April 5, 2013
Farewell, Roger Ebert. Your work in the field of film criticism will always be remembered with two enthusiastic thumbs up
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