Variety's list of best TV shows. Agree with Breaking Bad. Liked Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire.Variety's Best TV Series 2013
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Mashup of Mesmerizing Moments
Some great camera angles, and situations.Mashup of Mesmerizing Moments
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Twerking. Inspiration for Bollywood Item Numbers?
I saw this video in one of the web sites and found it amusing. If you watch carefully, the steps are more or less what you see in raunchy, slick item numbers in Bollywood movies :) Warning: Ignore the lyrics. They are quite explicit..Raunchy Twerking Dance Choreography. Inspiration for Bollywood Item Numbers?
Friday, December 13, 2013
The 71st Golden Globe Nominations. 2014
The list of nominations. Always the best place to pick out movies and TV shows you should not miss :) Golden Globe 2014 Nominations.
Decoding the Golden Globes 2013
Nominations for all categories Golden Globes 2013
Decoding the Golden Globes 2013
Nominations for all categories Golden Globes 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
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Monday, September 16, 2013
Recommended Movie. English. What Maise Knew.
I am not in favor of children being made to "act" and their minds messed up. I was therefore glad to read that for this movie, "What Maise Knew" the directors David Siegel, Scott McGehee
actually spent time with the child artiste Onata Aprile and got her to develop a rapport with the other cast before they shot the movie. The results are there to see. It is a gut wrenching, heartbreaking story of the trials and insecurities that a child has to go through as her parents break up. Based on a novel by Henry James, this movie adapts itself to the modern day context and leaves most people uneasy about themselves and how they treat their children as we run around managing our careers, spouses and everything else that life throws at us. Yes, it is not entertainment, but education that happens here. Hopefully it will make us pause and ponder. Once we wipe our eyes, swallow the lump in our throats and take a deep breath to ease that choked tight feeling in our chest.
What Maise Knew
actually spent time with the child artiste Onata Aprile and got her to develop a rapport with the other cast before they shot the movie. The results are there to see. It is a gut wrenching, heartbreaking story of the trials and insecurities that a child has to go through as her parents break up. Based on a novel by Henry James, this movie adapts itself to the modern day context and leaves most people uneasy about themselves and how they treat their children as we run around managing our careers, spouses and everything else that life throws at us. Yes, it is not entertainment, but education that happens here. Hopefully it will make us pause and ponder. Once we wipe our eyes, swallow the lump in our throats and take a deep breath to ease that choked tight feeling in our chest.
What Maise Knew
Malayalam Movies. Annayum Rasoolum.
Saw "Annayum Rasoolum" on TV. Good to know there is talent in the Malayalam film industry which looks to portray realism in their work.
I think as far as romantic films go, it is essential for the viewer to empathize with the protagonists. For skeptic men like me, it happens if we can go back in time and fall in love with the girl on screen. To an extent it happened I must confess :).Andrea Jeremiah was a stunner. She came across as the melancholic frail young girl who finds a reason to live and love and yet loses it to a turn of circumstances.Andrea Jeremiah
Fahad Fazil is as usual at the top of his game. I think a stint in the U.S. and he has mastered the craft of method acting.
Music was memorable and blended in well with the script actually giving the whole movie a unique feel and personality.
Wooing a girl in Kerala, is tantamount to stalking and it comes through here. To that extent it is inevitable that it finds a place in the storyline. Yes, given that the epidemic of sexual harassment that prevails in the country, it does disturb a lot of us that youngsters do not have more civilized means of expressing their affection or interest in the opposite sex. Anyhow it does not take away anything from the aesthetic pleasure that the movie provides.Definitely recommended.Annayum Rasoolum
I think as far as romantic films go, it is essential for the viewer to empathize with the protagonists. For skeptic men like me, it happens if we can go back in time and fall in love with the girl on screen. To an extent it happened I must confess :).Andrea Jeremiah was a stunner. She came across as the melancholic frail young girl who finds a reason to live and love and yet loses it to a turn of circumstances.Andrea Jeremiah
Fahad Fazil is as usual at the top of his game. I think a stint in the U.S. and he has mastered the craft of method acting.
Music was memorable and blended in well with the script actually giving the whole movie a unique feel and personality.
Wooing a girl in Kerala, is tantamount to stalking and it comes through here. To that extent it is inevitable that it finds a place in the storyline. Yes, given that the epidemic of sexual harassment that prevails in the country, it does disturb a lot of us that youngsters do not have more civilized means of expressing their affection or interest in the opposite sex. Anyhow it does not take away anything from the aesthetic pleasure that the movie provides.Definitely recommended.Annayum Rasoolum
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Thatathin Marayathu- Film Review
I never thought I would end up writing an eulogy on what is essentially a teenage romance. But Thatathin Marayathu, which I saw recently, in my late forties, still managed to cut its way through the skepticism and the cynical crustiness of middle age, to bring back my teenage years. With it, the flames of raging passion and overwhelming emotion, I felt then.
To deconstuct what happened. It appears that it was some very true and sensitive scenes and songs, which did the near impossible.Wake up the romantic in me!
Payyanur College Interlude and song Anuragathan Velayil Varamayi vannoru sandhyayil..
This scene is possibly true of nearly every romance that blossoms in college campuses in Kerala. (The song of course is fantasy and variations of it possibly would have played in your mind if you were blessed with a fertile imagination :D.)
In Kerala,where boys and girls are segregated and not allowed to mingle freely, most of the romantic exchanges happen in subtle ways and are often unspoken. Long walks with shoulders brushing at times would count for intimacy. Braving stares, smirks, giggles and the heckling calls of "panchara adi nirthede" "diabetics pidikum sookshicho" etal..would be part of the journey.It is never a private, intimate passage. All the sweetness and ache of that time of growing up, with its episodes of ridiculous idiocy,clumsiness, possessive jealousies, insecure pettiness and pathos has all been captured in its essence by Vinneth Srinivasan. It was a pleasant surprise. Technically well made, great photography, smooth editing, memorable music...thoroughly enjoyable bit of film making.
Songs:
This song is one of my favourites. Absolutely love it.
Muthu chippi poluru kathinulil
I heard this one before in a movie in the 80's. called Noketha Doorathu Kannum Natu. This rendition makes it come alive again.
Aayuram Kannumayi kathirunnu nine njan...
The rest of the songs were not bad either..
Shyamambaram
Swethambare Devi Namosthuthe
Vande Mukunda Hare
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Lovely song from Satyagraha
Absolutely love this song from the movie SATYAGRAHA. Ras ke bhare tore nayan..sawariya...
http://youtu.be/2WR2RyRNlh4
http://youtu.be/2WR2RyRNlh4
Monday, May 27, 2013
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