Katrina Kaif shows off her assets. I woke up feeling like I want to swear off Bollywood forever and from now on only watch Tamil films which are more quirky, raw, and unsubtitled. That might last until next week or whenever the new crop of the South Asian film industry appears at my local cineplex. [...]
VAARANAM AAYIRAM
Samira Reddy (pictured) in Tollywood (Tamil) epic about I am not completely sure what. This film had a certificate 15 which I wasn’t sure about why until the story reached scenes of fairly graphic hard drug usage. This could have been another recruitment movie driected at wayward youth from the south to join the Indian [...]
Body of Lies
Golshifteh Farahani (pictured) Iranian counterpart to Leonardo Dicaprio in this story of the good CIA agent. Largely filmed in Morocco this piece was fast moving and believable. Starts out with a dramatic bombing of an apartment in Sheffield UK during a Swat team raid. Behind me loud popcorn eaters commented loudly in accented English repeating [...]
LA DAMNATION DE FAUST
The set designers of this piece worked with Cirque de Soleil and the use of virtual reality and performers not normally associated with opera was pretty amazing stuff. This was an HD simulcast screened from the Met right into my local cineplex. Part two really got going and some of the songs were really beautiful [...]
Choke
Kelly McDonald (pictured) who was in No country for Old Men and a few other things brought this story together for me. Anjelica Huston was good though it must be said. I read the book when it first came out but don’t remember a lot of it apparently. Oh yeah Sex and Love addicts anonymous [...]
Waltz with Bashir
One of many arresting images from this animated piece that ends with I won’t say. For me one of the important things about this film is that it proves the fact that Israel is a democratic country with a free media capable of and prepared to criticize itself. Maybe that is obvious to American readers [...]
Dostana
Priyanka Chopra again (pictured above middle) with Abishek Bachchan (left) and John Abraham in a story where two guys pretend to be gay to get rooms in an apartment otherwise rented to women only. The audience were a very young crowd on the Monday evening that I saw it with the Peruvian. The girls all [...]
Pride and Glory
Raquel Jordan in this so so NYPD piece that rounded out a five movie weekend (I know it’s tough right?) ;]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482572/
Quantum of Solace
Olga Kurylenko (pictured) as Daniel Craig’s latest partner in crime if you haven’t already seen it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830515/
W
Elizabeth Banks again this time as Laura Bush. I didn’t like Thandie Newton’s portrayal of Condoleezza Rice. Worth seeing from an historical perspective but I hope more films will be made that explore other aspects of a presidency that went from the most popular to the least popular ever. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175491/
