Tag Archives: Movies

Recco’s

Short Story: The Clafouti Syndrome by Adam Benforado at The Cafe Irreal
Play: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Short Movie: More by Mark Osborne (around 14.5mb. Worth it. Requires Quicktime. Link via Ankit’s Blog)

Jeevika and Jaipur

Saurav da is currently on board Goa Express and shall be in Delhi tomorrow, to attend ‘Jeevika: the south asian livelihood documentary competition‘ at the India Habitat Center (IHC). He’s staying at my place tomorrow, so lets see if I can get him to guest-blog at Mixed Bag about his documentary A Page from the […]

Closer: a review

(Stumbled upon this review of Closer, and realised that I hadn’t posted mine on ze blog (even the old one), though it is up on Motif, here. I think this was the second time I attempted to seriously review a film, and it is the only one I like. Heh, so much so that […]

The Motorcycle Diaries - an exhibition of subtleties

The Motorcycle Diaries is an exhibition of subtleties. It depicts the journey that Che Guevara, then a med student, and his friend took across the continent of South America- first on a bike and later by hitchhiking.
The movie began promising much fun and adventures, dangers and escapades, and sex and violence. There was plenty of […]

Time Far Past (Osian’s Cinefan 7th Annual Asian Film Festival)

My second day at the Osian’s Cinefan Asian Film Festival ended rather tragically. I tripped over a protrusion in a barrier yesterday, apparently not the first person to manage that. Drove back 25 odd km with one arm operational. Just found out that it’s just a muscle pull, not a fracture or a ligament pull. […]

Sin City

In one word - Slick.
The storyline wasn’t unexpected - the movie was going to be full of crime. I’ve never heard of Frank Miller, but with Robert Rodriguez co-directing Sin City, I’d expected plenty of one liners, magazines of bullets and truckloads of action.
I love it when a movie has stories that run […]

Batman Begins: a not-so-serious review

Disclaimer: I don’t think there are any spoilers in this review. But, with a movie based on a superhero, can you have spoilers? It wasn’t intended to be serious, but does seem that way in places. For ‘propah’, shorter reviews: The Bride and Twisted View, and An interessin post by The Rhymebawd on Batman.
In one […]