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Vicky Donor

May 9th 2012 06:58

Vicky Donor is a Bollywood movie starring new comers Ayushmann Khuranna and Yami Gautam.

Story of Vicky Donor
Dr. Baldev Chaddha MBBS runs an infertility clinic and every day receives high

profile clients who come to him for high quality sperms, but unfortunately Dr. Chaddha cannot attract the right sort of donors who could donate superior genes carrying sperms. But the one day, by sheer accident, he meets Vicky Arora a young good looking athletic and unemployed young man looking to earn his mother's respect by earning Rs. 5000 in a month. Dr. Chaddha goes to great lengths to tempt Vicky to be a donor, ensuring him that it is a perfectly legal honorable trade, and when he finally agrees to try it out Dr. Chaddha is delighted to find that Vicky will be a high performing donor and ensure the prosperity of his clinic. However, things start to get complicated when Vicky falls in love and decides to get married.

Review of Vicky Donor
Vicky Donor quite a tough movie to pull off and director Shoojit Sircar

manages it effortlessly by creating a delicious coating of humor over a very serious core issue--the taboo surrounding sperm donation. It is a very bold and difficult topic to handle and Sircar's very direct approach is not only brave but really work the film.

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Apocalypto by Mel Gibson

May 8th 2012 05:05

Apocalypto (2006) is an art film about the Mayans directed and produced by Mel Gibson.

Story of Apocalypto
When a warring tribe from the far off stone city attacks a peace loving clan of

hunters, the young Jaguar Paw manages to hide his pregnant wife and son in a deep hole before being captured along with a large majority of his clan and is marched backed to the stone city to be sold as slaves or be sacrificed to quench the thirst of the Sun God. But Jaguar Paw must find a way to escape and retrieve his wife and son before the torrential tropical monsoon floods their haven and drowns them.

Review of Apocalypto
Though highly criticized for its scenes of graphic and outrageous violence (such as cutting out a man's heart while he is still alive) there is no denying

that Apocalypto is an exhilarating watch and a must see for people who are tired of greasy and slick big budget Hollywood/Bollywood productions and enjoy tough gritty (and typically, European) movies.

Mel Gibson also successfully transports you to a new world and takes you places you have never been before and that just increases the thrill. Though

nothing actually happens for most parts of the movie the screenplay is so taut that it will still keep you riveted to your screen.

A wonderful work of directing editing and acting to cover up a relatively weak plot and serve up an absolute eye-candy for movie buffs.

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Hate Story starring Paoli Dam

May 7th 2012 04:17

Hate Story (2012) is the Bollywood debut of popular Bengali actress Paoli

Dam. It succeeded in making quite a lot of noise in Bollywood following Paoli Dam's dare bare antics and titillation but that in itself hardly makes a memorable movie. I checked it, unlike most of my friends, not to see for myself how much skin in on display but what is their to see apart from it. And here's the review:

Story of Hate Story
After successfully pulling off a damaging sting operation against the heir to a

large business empire, Siddharth Dhanrajgir, reporter Kaavya Krishna (inexplicably) enters his employment and promptly falls in love with him and inevitably gets pregnant. But then Siddharth shuns her and dumps her from her job. Later on he also abducts Kaavya and arranges for an abortion at a seedy and obviously illegal facility.

Kaavya manages to escape with her life but is disowned by her family for tainting the family name and she is forced to move in with quite possibly her only friend in the world, Vicky.

There she starts to plan a revenge against the rich and powerful Siddharth Dhanrajgir and in the process prostitutes herself to get damaging information and favors from a very powerful minister and a high ranking employee of Siddarth's company.

But Siddarth is not one to take defeat from a no-name young woman easily and starts a game plotting and counter plotting between the two leaving death and destruction in their wake.

Review of Hate Story
Hate Story is basically what you would expect from a movie having that title. It is dark revenge driven thriller. And in this sense it is quite OK. The mood is dark and the thrills are for real. Paoli Dam's acting is always very good and the rest of the cast are also fine. Music is okay and so is dialogue. And 80%

of the film is actually pretty decent and might actually pass for an OK art house production in many movie industries around the world (but in Bollywood it is a strictly commercial film because it blatantly tries to attract audiences by selling sex). But it has 3 major problems:
1) This story has been told over and over again in World cinema and Hate Story hardly brings anything new to the table. Also these films obviously are so dark that they lack the uplifting and inspirational qualities of underdog movies (which is another genre which essentially tells the same story over and over again but never goes out of popularity).

2)The direction, editing and screen play is horrendous to say the least.Some of the scenes and 20% of the storyboarding is so ridiculous that even complete amateurs would probably do better! And this 20% ruins the other 80%, which otherwise would have been fine.

3)This movie is like a showcasing of mediocrity. With no really outstanding performances either from the actors, the directors, the writers or the technical crew Hate Story is doomed to mediocrity and dying a silent death once people had got a couple of eyes fulls of Paoli Dam (who though not classically beautiful, does have sex appeal)in her bare back outfits, towel and lingerie.

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Hollow Man

April 14th 2012 09:06

Hollow Man(2000) is one of the more popular of director Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi movies in Hollywood and stars Elizabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon.

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Kahaani: Bollywood Thriller Review

March 20th 2012 16:52

Kahaani the latest Bollywood movie featuring Vidya Balan and like most of her other recent efforts it is yet another riotous success at the box office. Here's a review of this Sujoy Ghosh directed thriller.

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Caged Heat : A Women in Prison Movie

February 26th 2012 08:42

Caged Heat (1974) is a women in preison (WIP) movie from Academy Award winning director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs). The movie features, amongst others, Erica Gavin and Barbara Steele

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The Good The Bad and The Ugly : What is So Special?

February 19th 2012 17:10

This is a review of arguably the greatest Western ever made, Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef.

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Defiance starring Daniel Craig

January 25th 2012 17:22

Defiance is a World War movie based on true events during the Nazi occupation of Belarus, starring Daniel Craig and directed by Edward Zwick

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The Game starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn

January 17th 2012 17:01

The Game is a thriller starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn and directed by David Fincher, dealing with the complex relationship between an immensely successful financier with his possibly charlatan but very dear younger brother.

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Best James Bond Movies

January 16th 2012 13:51

"The name's Bond, James Bond."

Ring a bell? Who can forget the quintessential MI6 secret agent and estrogen magnet, the one and only James bond? Agent 007 belongs to that elite class of fictional characters whose fame has eclipsed that of his creator (Ian Fleming) and all other mortal beings responsible for his immortality

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