Copied slapstick

2

Reviewed Salaam Namaste

After all the hype and hoopla, I finally opted to see a movie that friends were sure I’d not like. I’m not generally critical towards Hindi films; infread more...

My Kodak Moments

Reviewed Five Gifts You Would Like to Receive

I normally limit myself to reviewing films on MS. But today I decided to break tradition, in response to another review on MS that left me all sappy and nostalgread more...

Be Warned!

3

Reviewed Irreversable

If you’ve grown up on a staple diet of Hindi movies, you know that rape scenes are sometimes an integral part of the narrative. You need them, so the largeread more...

Life in a Cubicle

4

Reviewed Office Space Movie

When I first saw Office Space, I was fighting the urge to quit corporate world, and venture into something a wee bit more creative and satisfying. Today howeverread more...

Before the beginning!

4

Reviewed Baran

If you are sucker for love stories, you probably know that the best love stories don’t necessarily have fairy tale endings. Boy meets Girl, they fall in lread more...

IV, V, and VI

4

Reviewed Decalogue Films

An overdose of ’’bleak’’ was perhaps not the best choice for a rainy afternoon. But when you think Keislowski is one of the best directors aread more...

Cool and Violent

4

Reviewed Sin City

I’m not a graphic novel kinda gal. So I was sheepishly oblivious to the Frank Miller tag that came with Sin City, the film version of the comic book seriesread more...

Bizarre

2

Reviewed The Jacket

After The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Butterfly Effect, I was undeniably interested when I read the plot of The Jacket. Bizarre and complicated, the film read more...

Raw, Unsettling, Exceptional

4

Reviewed Crash

It takes guts to make a film like Crash. A modern day discourse on racism and everyday existential problems, the film is about people and the circumstances theyread more...

Mystical, dream-like grief

5

Reviewed Blue

I thought my tryst with MS had come to an end, till I read Patenik2’s recent review. The post triggered off a need to review one of my favorite films ever;read more...

A 337-page-long song

3

Reviewed Broken Music - Sting

Autobiographies bridge the gap between their well-known writers and mere mortals such as us. So, when a well-known singer/song writer decided to share his memoiread more...

Humor within Pathos

4

Reviewed Divided We Fall

My initiation into Czech films began with Jan Hrebejk’s Divided We Fall. This film was a surprising change for me, because of its theme. Set in the Nazi peread more...

A tad bit too dramatic?

2

Reviewed Black - Bollywood

I must begin my review by apologizing, as I might offend a few Sanjay Leela Bansali fans with this review. I wasn’t going to write it, but I just had to, aread more...

Ethnically rich and heroic

3

Reviewed Hotel Rwanda

I love stories of courage and survival, and I realize again that sometimes, it takes just one person to make a huge difference. This is the theme of Hotel Rwandread more...

A Celebration of Life

4

Reviewed Not Yet

All Akira Kurosawa films work, because they celebrate the human spirit. Kurosawa’s films have characters you can relate to, and the theme though central tread more...

Behind the Façade!

3

Reviewed Dogville

Dogville is one of the most interestingly made films. As the tagline reads Dogville is a quite little town, not so far away from here. The movie is divided intread more...

The Lonely Legend

4

Reviewed Greatest Hits - Janis Joplin

Is the legacy that Janis Joplin left behind bigger than the legend of Janis Joplin? I will never be able to decide. But I’ve never stopped being fascinatedread more...

A trip down memory lane

4

Reviewed Rhapsody in August

Akira Korosawa’s Rhapsody in August is a trip down memory lane, as it reminds us of numerous summers spent with grandparents who filled our lives with storread more...

''A publishing phenomenon''

5

Reviewed Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

Would it be considered blasphemous for a Literature student to label Shantaram as the ’’best book read in a long time’’? Perhaps! But my friread more...

Civilization Vs savagery

4

Reviewed Lord of the Flies - William Golding

If you are a firm believer in the innocence of childhood, William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies will lead you to think otherwise. An unusual novel wherread more...