Tyson: I’d bought this thinking it was James Toback’s documentary. It turned out to be director’s Uli Edel straight-to-video take on Mike Tyson’s life. Truth be told, it was lame. Nothing that we haven’t read about on tabloids or stared at on E! and VH1 specials. Minor props to the Paul Winfield for his portrayal [...]
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Movie review: Mentalists, architects and minor squabbles
Posted in film, tagged charlie kaufman, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, indie movie review, James Toback, John Malkovich, mentalist, Mike Tyson, Peter Dinkage, philip seymour hoffman, Photographing Fairies, roger ebert, Synecdoche New York, The Great Buck Howard, The Observer, The Station Agent, Thomas McCarthy on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dexter exits Bangalore to shed blood in Chennai
Posted in film, tagged werner herzog, papa bear, roger ebert, dexter, darkly dreaming dexter, jeff lindsay, six feet under, ebert, david cronenberg, blogger, akira kurosawa on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am an arrogant person. Most people who know me really well would testify to that. Maybe it’s my presumption that I am more perceptive than almost everyone else or perhaps it has something to do with how monstrous my ego can be. Whatever it is, it seriously inhibits me from appreciating new forms of [...]
Oh Damme, are you serious?
Posted in film, tagged film reviews, JCVD, jean claude van damme, mabrouk el mechri, roger ebert, van damme on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The very first time that I went for a film at the theatre all by myself was for Jim Carrey’s Mask. Only it wasn’t. I think I was 12 years old. The imbecile who booked my tickets somehow confused Jean Claude Van Damme’s Time Cop with one of the most-talked about films in Chennai. So [...]
