Jairam's Jives

I initially didn't have too much high hopes of actually going ahead and enjoying 'Paths of glory' when I popped it into the DVD player. The only reason, or actually two reasons that I wanted to watch this movie were Stanley Kubrick, the Director and Kirk Douglas (who played Col. Dax, the main protagonist) in the movie. I was in for a reasonably pleasant surprise in the form of a thought-provoking movie. Although the movie itself looks like an usual war movie, the fact that it deals with one of the lesser known aspects of war such as execution of soldiers in front of a firing squad for 'cowardice in the face of the enemy' makes it all the more interesting.

Being a Brad Pitt fan I am constantly on the look-out for any movie featuring him to be released so that I can lay my hands on a copy of the same and watch it as soon as is humanly possible. So while I was waiting for a good print of 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' to be made available, I happened to come across this quirky movie 'Burn After Reading' featuring Brad Pitt in a cameo.

'The Good German' was one movie which I had been massively procrastinating upon. And it was only after I watched it that I realized what a mistake I had made. The first thing that I saw on one of the TV channels about this movie was the fact that the director Steven Soderbergh had shot it on black and white photographic film in the 'Classical Hollywood' style, and this probably was the only reason that my interest in it had been piqued something close to a year ago.