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A possible disaster
15 July 2016 3:28 AM ISTA new paper published in journal Nature Geoscience has warned of a potentially devastating earthquake ripping through the densely populated Bangladesh...
Modi on his mind
11 May 2013 4:35 PM ISTThe hall was packed. The man in question was not even present, and the book, Narendra Modi: The Man. The Times, the launch of which brought the two...
Of toys and terrorism
27 April 2013 4:20 PM ISTBad news for all you Iron Man fans out there. The man fixes himself for good. No more electro-magnetic shield for him. Looks like the franchise...
Predictably prehistoric
20 April 2013 3:56 PM ISTYet another film where technological brilliance makes up for plot shortcomings and character flaws. The Croods are cool, but unfortunately trapped in...
Future ain’t profound
13 April 2013 5:30 AM ISTThe question that pops up, as I watch the post apocalypse landscape flourish in the last two minutes of the two-and-half hour saga, why is Hollywood...
Rather hang up on this call
6 April 2013 5:30 AM ISTThe Call is one of those Hollywood thrillers that rides on a hackneyed plot, with a hope that charisma of the star will turn the film around for...
Delightfully old school
16 March 2013 5:30 AM ISTZarafa is like a breath of fresh air in an age when ‘cartoon’ films have become synonymous with 3-D and CGI technology. Breakthrough as they are, of...
Who took the fizz out of Oz?
9 March 2013 5:30 AM ISTKnock your heels together three times and wait for two-plus hours, you’ll be out of candy-hued land. While you are waiting, you might as well enjoy...
Verses on violence
9 March 2013 5:30 AM ISTWords, they say, are not enough to convey emotions. But for Nayomi Munaweera they come rushing in: each sentence, delivered with poetic elegance, is...
As high as tech gets
2 March 2013 5:30 AM ISTI t’s obvious the director, Bryan Singer (who has X-Men to his credit, by the way), read the fairytale Jack and the Beanstalk and decided to fashion a...
No die-hard thriller, this
25 Feb 2013 5:30 AM ISTForgive me all you Die Hard fans, but Good Day To Die Hard ain’t no die-hard thriller. And, to make it worse, Bruce Willis has crossed that thin line...
Oscar’s Oddball
23 Feb 2013 5:30 AM ISTWhat an oddball of a film. A classic example of what brilliant acting could do to a two-line script. Mind you, it doesn’t really step away from the...