A couple of reasons why I watched ‘Before the Rains’ were Santosh Sivan, its director and Nandita Das, its lead character.

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These days Tamil cinema is in the middle of a silent revolution.

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I don't remember when I first heard of this movie, but for whatever reason it eluded me until Asianet finally decided to play it again (or was it the first time on TV?) on Sunday, Jan 6th.

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"Unknown" was just that, an unknown choice of a movie to watch on a Sunday afternoon. When the Missus, my cousin and me decided to sit down to watch some nice movie, the onus of choice of the movie was left to me.

In a departure from normal protocol, Agent Ethan Hunt is not necessarily given a choice to accept the mission in this instalment of Mission Impossible.

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At the outset "The Descendants" is a movie based on two, maybe three thin threads of stories with common characters.

The first one deals with Matt King who is the Managing Trustee of a trust which controls 25000 acres of virgin untouched land in the island of Ka'aui in Hawaii.

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If any of the readers of this post have read the book 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and intend to watch the movie sometime soon (albeit not in Indian theatres given that the Indian Govt has decided to ban its release in India, will soon write a separate post on that topic), request you folks to

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Now if you are a book lover and a regular reader of the thriller action genre of books there's no way that you could have missed reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson. This book made the literary circles and the bestseller lists of the world go ga-ga sometime ago.

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You know you are in for a ride when the movie begins with a panoramic view of the Earth from the other side, the dark side of the Moon.

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While the posters of Vaanam bandied around Anushka dressed glamorously, Bharath posing with a guitar and Simbu in various poses, it gave me the impression that this was a run of the mill masala movie with the usual mass elements such as songs, dances, fights, glamour, etc etc.

While the buzz created around the entire "Jana Gana Rann" song in the movie Rann helped people realize that Ram Gopal Varma was making a movie around the Hindi News Media and probably also helped draw people into the theaters during the opening weekend, I now know why the movie didn't have even a de

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Now I have had friends and family look at me like a madman when I tell them that I watched a movie alone, either at home or in the theatre. For whatever reason it is almost like taboo to watch movies alone.

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If any of you are fans of sports movies like Remember the Titans, Any Given Sunday or the like, then I am sure that you folks are gonna love Moneyball, the latest Brad Pitt flick based on the true story of Billy Beane, manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team in early 2000.

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I remember those days when I used to be a big fan of 'Prince', the computer game which was pretty much among the few good games that one could play on computers which used to have 386x speed processors, 2 MB RAM memory, DOS operating systems, you get the drift.

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For anybody who has seen 'Robin Hood - Prince of thieves', the 1991 film starring Kevin Costner and directed by Kevin Reynolds, this particular Ridley Scott adaptation of the popular legend of Robin Hood surely is going to be an eye-opener.

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My earliest memories of Sherlock Holmes are that of a pipe smoking, round hat wearing, sharp nosed tall gentleman, who could pretty much deduce an entire day's happenings, and maybe even more just from a speck of dirt or tobacco stain on another person's sleeve or any other part of his dress.

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Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Edward Norton and a cameo appearance by Donald Sutherland. Now, if you need more reasons to catch a movie, here is one more, a heist movie.

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Now anybody who has an interest in Western Classical music or Western Instrumental music in general would surely have heard the 'Chariots of Fire' theme from the soundtrack of the movie with the same name.

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Now, the first time I heard about the movie Fracture was when HBO or Star Movies played a 5 min segment of the movie with an interview of Anthony Hopkins stating that this was only the second time in his career that he had played the role of a murderer after the famous Hannibal Lecter character.

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Am sure that by now all readers of Jairam's Jives would've watched Avatar at least once and been awestruck by the amazing psychedelic world that James Cameron presented to us with in the form of Pandora.

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Ben Thomas (Will Smith) is an IRS Tax Auditor who is prone to performing random acts of kindness to people.

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"The Hurt Locker" begins with a sequence of how Staff Sergeant Thompson is killed during the process of defusing a radio controlled improvised explosive device (IED) in Baghdad.

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Cameron Poe (Nicholas Cage) is an ex-US Army Ranger who is jailed when he inadvertently kills a man while defending his wife from them. Eight years later Poe is on parole and on his way back home to Alabama, to be flown back on "Jailbird", a place carrying several convicts to different places.

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Vinnaithandi Varuvaya is Gautam Vasudev Menon as his self-indulgent best. If Vaaranam Aayiram was Gautam's tribute to his late father, VTV seems more like Gautam reminiscing about his first love and how it never really leaves you.

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No Country for Old Men is one of those movies which you'll probably not sit up and notice, nor will it attract your attention in the local DVD Rental store. And for good reason. It is probably not one of those movies which you would want to pop into your player, sit back and enjoy the movie.

Carl Fredricksen as a kid, is a huge fan of Charles Muntz, the avid adventurer. However, Muntz is accused of fabricating the skeleton of a big bird which he claimed to have found during his adventures in Paradise Falls, South America.

Up in the Air stars the oh-so-delicious looking George Clooney (Academy Award nominated role) playing a corporate downsizer whose job involves extensive travelling all over the US of A delivering the dreaded "You've been let go" message to more than just a few individuals.

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The Academy Award nominations have been announced.

Every once in a while I watch a movie which just jumps out of the screen and bites me so hard in the brain that it pretty much leaves behind quite a lasting impression. ‘Rachel Getting Married’ is one such movie.

Ok, ok, we all know the story of 2012 by now, but then what other kind of movie did you expect from Roland Emmerich whose list of movies includes Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 10,000 BC.

As if there weren’t enough controversies in corporate America, that I get to know of yet another one through “The Informant”. Now this was one movie which I wanted to catch almost as soon as it hit theatres in September 2009, but for some funny reason kept eluding me until this weekend.

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The 2010 Golden Globe Awards have been announced and the following is the list of winners.

As is public knowledge, Nelson Mandela was released from the Robben Island prison after 27 yrs of imprisonment in 1990 and went on to win the first post-apartheid elections in South Africa and become the first black president of the country.

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There are movies, then there are 3-D movies, and then there is Avatar. With all the pre-release publicity, post-release rave reviews and the hype and hoop-la surrounding this movie, it was all but a matter of time before I actually caught it in a theatre.

My interest in District 9 was piqued when I read a rave review by Roger Ebert, who praised the film for “giving us aliens to remind us not everyone who comes in a spaceship need be angelic, octopod or stainless steel.” Plus the fact that this movie managed to stand its own in the box-office despite

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