The secret in their eyes

*ing : Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago
Director : Juan José Campanella

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The secret in their eyes is an film from Argentina. And it makes me wonder there are soo many good movies to watch from all across the world. Secret in Their eyes is about a few people working for Investigative department in Argentina. Where they stumble upon a rape case which changes their life forever. The film has a very important and my personal theme. Revenge. I hv always belived that what is the revenge if it doesn’t justify the act. For exp, if someone rapes or kills someone, whats the fun in hanging that someone to death or shooting him with a bullet. He will get a few mins of suffering and all will end. Here, I remember one of fav movie, I saw the Devil. Where the hero takes a unique revenge on the villain. Ofcourse it spirals big time and hero has to face more consequences but I loved the idea.
The secret in their eyes has a soul of a revenge movie but its clad with emotional tone. And the experience is brilliant.
Rating :
*** & ½

Race 2

*ing : Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Deepika Padukone
Director : Abbas-Mustan

Tagline : Betrayal is survival

Race 2
Life is a great leveler. One day you watch a film like Life of Pi and other day you are watching a trash like Race2. Yes, even though I love bollywood yet I am not ashamed of saying that race2 is a trash. Its nothing but money being spent when there is no need. Good looking people living in good looking places surrounded by more good looking people. Its all gloss but no content. I am not even going to venture in story line here coz its so confusing that u will keep wondering what happened where. And anything without making any sense. I may even hv called it a guility pleasure and a one time watch bt I am soo pissed off with the movie, I am not going to recommend anything about it.
Rating :
* 1/2

Life of Pi

*ing : Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain
Director : Ang Lee


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Life of Pi is based on a book written by Yan Martel with the same title. It won some big prizes across the literary fests and for long time was considered to be an unflimable book. Before Ang Lee took upon the job. And I still think he was the best man to helm a book like this. Its about Pi, a boy in Pondicherry India travelling to Canada with has family and animals of his zoo. On the way there is a sea storm and the ship sinks living him on a life boat with a zebra , monkey and a tiger named Richard Parker. It’s a very meditative experience he goes through and survives on the boat for 227 days with a tiger on it. The film has amazing visuals and effects. Bt all is underwhelmed in the context of the movie.. it has a brilliant ending and a theme which is soo identifiable. Loved it.
Rating :
****

Friends (Season 9)

*ing : Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer

Creator: David Crane, Marta Kauffman

Tagline : All you need is friends !

This is perhaps the fastest I have finished a season of friends. One of the reason is that its really funny and each episode just breezes past. Second is that I had kinda free time lately so got more opp to watch it. Also, since the season and series is coming towards end, there is a niggling curiosity as what will happen next and I just want to finish it soon. Having fully known that I will regret once its done and I ll sorely miss it. Season 9 again has some nice moments and some dark ones. Phoebe gets true love and decides to get married to Mike. Monica and Chandler learn that they cant conceive and go for adoption. Rachel has a fight with Ross and moves out and start living with Joey. They try to make out but cant have sex. They decide to remain friends forever. Ross seems to hv moved on with Charlie. Last season is going to be killer as all the allegiance will get to its end.


Rating :
**** & ½

Silver Linings Playbook

*ing : Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
Director : David O. Russell

Tagline : Watch for the signs

Silver Lining Playbook is an acclaimed movie starring host of brilliant actors starting with Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Di Nero and our very own Anupam Kher. The film is abt dysfunctional broken disturbed sad people and issues of their life and how they try to find silver lining in it. Bradley Cooper has just come out of mental institute and is trying to make his marriage work. Jeniffer Lawrence is a young widow who is is in acute depression and sleeps with everyone in her office. De Niro has OCD about games and remotes. The film is fun but I was truly truly blown away by the performance of Jenifer Lawrence. So much so I think I hv fell in love with the lady. She’s outstanding in the movie. She justifiably got the Academy awards for best actress this year. She’s just toooo good. You wudnt expect such a performance from such a young actor. More so, Jenifer has this cute round face but in the movie, the way she plays the character you can actually feel her grief and you want to own her and love her. I don’t remember having such a strong crush on since Avril Lavigne. But I think Avril was more of a teenage fantasy whereas Jenifer is sort of women I want to keep and love forever.. Watch it for Jenifer Lawrence. Film is good too.
Rating :
*** & ½

Special 26

*ing : Akshay Kumar , Anupam Kher, Manoj Bajpayee
Director : Neeraj Pandey

Tagline : Asli power dil mein hoti hai

There was a time that I had decided that I will not watch akshay Kumar movies anymore. For the simple logic coz he had given some worst movie in recent times. I had seen him in some of the movies like housefull, Blue and Tees Maar Khan which were the worst of its times. He gave some more n more bad movies which I decided never to watch. However Special 26 promos had me hooked. More so cause it has been directed by the same guy who directed ‘A Wednesday’. Even Akshay looks soo toned down in the promos and without his usual irritating mannerism. The film however is not that very good. It may hv gotten lot of praise all across but I did not like as much as probably others did. The concept is novel and so is treatment but I did not understand the twist part. Why Jimmy Shergill and Divya Dutta who are part of Akshay’s team , had to be part of CBI and give out all the details. Like his house address, their next plan and put the whole heist on risk. It may hv been a good cinematic experience but it was foolish twist.

Rating :
***

Sinister

*ing : Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone
Director : Scott Derrickson

Tagline : Once you see him, nothing can save you.

Sinister is one of the rare horror movie which I decided to watch. And it turned out such a bad one. Starring Ethan Hawke as a writer who writes on actual crime , the film is about a haunted house who owner’s have mysteriously been killed being hanged to a tree. The scene is chillingly shot on camera too. Apparently whoever sees the video gets affected as well..there was hardly any scene where I felt scared. I hated the movie. You better avoid it too

Rating :
*