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New spin to spectacular
24 Nov 2012 12:00 AM GMTAng Lee certainly can give a new spin to spectacular. Life of Pi takes a life of its own in big screen adaptation. Lee creates a world of breathtaking...
Not exactly a big wave
10 Nov 2012 12:00 AM GMTAwesome visuals of surfing more or less make up for bit of a drag here and a tad too preachy there. Chasing Maverick may be the real life story of Jay...
Of guns, girls and Aston Martin
2 Nov 2012 12:00 AM GMTTurns out, a not-so-in-shape Bond, who can shrug coolly when the Bond girl deflates like a doll, can get his mojo back when his getaway car – the sexy...
enter the DURBAR
1 Nov 2012 12:00 AM GMTTavleen Singh is one of those rare breeds that is fast vanishing in journalistic circles – an insider who knew people who mattered intimately. In many...
Matrix gone bad
27 Oct 2012 12:00 AM GMTThe ambition is very easy to see: Cloud Atlas is one of the most expensive films made (apparently $102 million were spent on it, most of which come...
Shillong in short takes
27 Oct 2012 12:00 AM GMTShillong comes alive in Janice Pariat’s Boats on Land. We are spared nothing. Pariat takes us by hand and guides us through the mist that shrouds...
Where happiness is inescapable
20 Oct 2012 12:00 AM GMTFor a book that hinges on the suicide of a teenager, The Illicit Happiness of Other People leaves you with a fuzzy feeling of well being.Manu Joseph’s...
Looper is Loopy, alright
13 Oct 2012 12:00 AM GMTTime travel, the staple diet of science fiction, gets loop-ier in Looper. Given that he’s got a winner of a premise, the director, Rian Johnson,...
A hard hit, this
6 Oct 2012 12:00 AM GMTThe film opens with snippets of Obama’s ‘Change’ campaign – his rousing speech bit, of how America is what everyone makes of it – droning in the...
Standby for action overload
29 Sep 2012 12:00 AM GMTResident Evil: Retribution in a nutshell: awful one-liners, kickass Mila Jovavich, and mutants and zombies that seep out in all forms and shapes....
Rest in pieces!
27 Aug 2012 12:00 AM GMTCheesy humour and a huge dose dose of testosterone are what you get in Expendables 2. If you are wondering how cheesy, get this: Stallone’s character,...
Wakami, sinfonietta & weird love story
25 Aug 2012 12:00 AM GMTThat Haruki Murakami dips heavily into surrealism for his tales, is nothing new. But his latest, the much toasted 1Q84 – three volumes in all – gets...