Jairam's Jives

'Body of lies' tries to retrace the operative methods of CIA Operative, Roger Ferris (played competently by Leonardo DiCaprio) who is posted in the Middle East and keeps shuttling between countries such as Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia working on various assignments. He is trying to track down a terrorist called Al-Saleem who has already succeeded in bombing locations in UK and is planning more such bombs in mainland Europe. Ferris' handler, Ed Hoffman (excellent performance by Russell Crowe) is keeping constant tabs on Ferris and keeps giving him lots of necessary information as well as ideas and thoughts on how to go about handling an issue.

However, Ferris does not look down too kindly upon Hoffman actively intervening in situations and double-guessing him.

When the movie "Charlie Wilson's War" begins, the words "The following is based on true events" really piqued my interest in this movie. While I had unsuccessfully been trying for over a year and a half to pull out time to actually sit and watch this movie, the fact that it was playing on Star Movies over a Saturday night meant that I had to catch it there.

Lions for Lambs starts off with TV journalist Janice Roth (played wonderfully by Meryl Streep) coming into Senator Jasper Irving’s (Tom Cruise in a surprisingly underplayed but awesome role) office only to find out that the Senator has granted her a complete hour of his time for a one-on-one interview. She later finds out that the Senator wants to talk about his new war strategy in Afghanistan and get Roth to give some positive coverage so that the public is convinced that the plan is sound.

Paul Blart is able to do everything that a New Jersey Police Department recruit can do………well, almost everything. In his n-th attempt at the selections, he completes almost the entire obstacle course collapsing around 2 feet before the finish line due to hypoglycemia. Now any movie which begins with roly-poly Kevin James (of “King of Queens” fame from Star World) almost successfully completing an obstacle course gives you a pre-cursor of how the rest of the movie is going to pan out.