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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Alice in Wonderland

Over fifteen adaptations have been made of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 stories about a young girl and her adventures after following a rabbit with a pocket watch. Is this latest 3D extravaganza, by Tim Burton, Linda Woolverton (and Disney), up to the mark, or should it disappear back down the rabbit hole?


Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Rajnigandha

Basu Chatterjee’s 1974 Filmfare award-winner for Best Picture kicks off our 70s Week posts. Vidya Sinha plays a young woman who’s having a bit of trouble deciding on who she wants to spend the rest of her life with (but it doesn’t play out as you would expect).


Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Ishqiya

Curry Western? Masala Noir? Whatever the genre, Abhishek Chaubey’s directorial debut is a spicy treat served straight up from the India we don’t get to see a lot of.


Friday, January 15th, 2010

Chance Pe Dance

In the 90s Ken Ghosh made Indian music videos that didn’t suck. In the Noughties he delivered one fun film and one not so good one. Let’s see what he has in store for the new decade.


Friday, December 25th, 2009

Sherlock Holmes

Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes. Jude Law is Dr. Watson. Guy Ritchie is behind the camera. What more do you need to know about the wittiest romp of the year?


Friday, December 18th, 2009

Avatar

The biggest movie of the year, and possible the rapidly ending decade. But is James Cameron’s alien epic a worthwhile trip to another world, or should you just stay put at home?


Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

The Hangover

The three tenets of the Modern American Guy Movie — a car, Las Vegas, and a night of drunken debauchery — combine in delightful proportions in Todd Phillips film that will have you saying ‘Vegas, baby!’ more than ‘Dude, Where’s My Car?’


Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Anthony Zimmer

Mistaken identities, vicious killers, dogged cops and a femme fatale. It takes a deft hand to make even the most simple and tired plot new again. Such is the case in Jérôme Salle’s thriller — but, as always, there is a twist.


Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Wake Up Sid

Bollywood made the slacker rich man’s son an icon. So what happens when one of them has to grow up?


Monday, September 28th, 2009

Genova

The normal and the paranormal intertwine in Michael Winterbottom’s spellbinding tale of loss, love and a new, old city.