Archive for April 2014
Walk of Shame: Trailer
"A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or money - and only 8 hours to make it to the most important job interview of her life." -IMDb
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Challenges,
Trailer
List of films partly or entirely shot in Vegas
There are many genres of cinema, Action, animation, crime, drama, fantasy, history, mystery, romance sci-fi and there is another genre; Las Vegas.Usually when a film is shot in Las Vegas, the city is like a character in that film. There is a purpose.
Udaan [2010]: A great film by first time director Vikramaditya Motwane
Do you know,
what is it, that Orson Welles, Satyajit Ray, Jim Sheridan, Kevin Costner,
Quentin Tarantino, Brad Bird and Ben Affleck have in common? It is the fact that they all had a great debut as directors. Now I won’t talk
about how they went ahead.
The Dark Knight Rises: final scene
If you have watched Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, you already know the greatness of this scene. If you haven't, here is the background story you need to know.
Gotham City has been saved by Batman from Bane's terror, but there is.
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Challenges,
Videos
Rejecting "Rainman [1989]"
Rain Man is a 1988 Drama by Barry Levinson, it stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise as lead actors playing brothers.
Tom Cruise plays Charlie Babbitt
Dustin Hoffman plays Raymond Babbitt
Rain Man won 4 Oscars, 3 of which were Best Picture,.
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Challenges,
Trivia
#Quote: Conversation between Will and Chuckie
The Movie is Good Will Hunting [1997]
Matt Damon is Will Hunting.
Ben Affleck is Chuckie Sullivan.
Will, A janitor at MIT has a gift for mathematics, he knows about his gift, but is failing to realize how important is it for him and for those who.
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Challenges,
Quotes
Pirates of silicon valley [1999]: that's how you make a film on Steve Jobs
The day I saw the trailer of jOBS, I could sense that something is terribly wrong with it. Yes I am talking about that Ashton Kutcher movie that looked highly commercial and glamorous. The film came and as I expected, it was not appreciated by many.
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1990s,
1999,
Anthony Hall,
Biography,
Challenges,
Drama,
Joey Slotnick,
Martyn Burke,
Noah Wyle,
Reviews
Oldboy [2003]: Almost impossible to imitate
Cast: Min-sik Choi, Hye-jeong Kang, Ji-tae Yu
Directed by: Chan-wook Park
A drunken man [Oh Dae-Su] is arrested by the police. His friend bails him out and when this friend was making a telephone call, the man disappears only to wake up in a place.
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2000s,
2003,
Challenges,
Chan-wook Park,
Drama,
Hye-jeong Kang,
Ji-tae Yu,
Min-sik Choi,
Mystery,
Reviews,
Thriller
The New wave in the Hindi film industry [List]
I love cinema, irrespective of the language, color, genre or the decade. If it's a good film, I will watch it. I believe 1950s was the most significant period for Hindi films. Some of the most acclaimed films belong to that era; Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool.
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Challenges,
Lists
Making favorites
I told you before how I was introduced to movies in my previous post titled Experiencing Cinema. Here is the 2nd part of that story.
So, I was only 5 when I developed an affinity for movies. With only Doordarshan and its other Channel "DD Metro".
[List] The Greatest actors of all time
I wanted to make this list three years ago, but at the same time I realized that I haven't yet watched some significant movies and I wouldn't do proper justice with the list. My total number of films count was 850 then so I thought let's make it a.
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AtoZ Challenges,
Lists
Born to Die: How many times have these stars died on screen?
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Remember how Amitabh Bachchan used to die in most of his films; he died in Deewaar, Sholay, Muqaddar ka Sikander, Shakti and many others. Even Hrithik Roshan dies in a lot of his films. These great performances when comes in a dying role, makes an.
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Challenges,
Trivia
Something the "Janta" [People] needs to watch
[This is not really a post about movies and entertainment, but needs your attention]
Here I am sharing a video which I came across some 15 mins ago and I am using this platform to make it visible to those who are concerned about the nation..
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Challenges,
Documentary
7 "Into the Wild" quotes I love
If you haven't seen Into the wild, you should. Buy it, download or borrow. But do watch it.
This is one of my most loved and respected films from the last decade. Sean Penn is awesome. I always respected him more as an actor and lesser as a filmmaker.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [2001]
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone [also released as Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone worldwide except India, Srilanka, Pakistan and USA] was an absolutely.
officially a Geek now
Before you start looking for some official statement like "My dear friends, I have been chosen for the geekiest person alive award", let me clear that the word official was not to be taken seriously. So, let's move with the post.
A few weeks.
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Challenges,
Geeky
Some "Forrest Gump" Trivia
At the time when I revealed my theme for the AtoZ Challenge, I promised that I will come up with some interesting movie trivia, this is my first trivial post for the month of April.
Forrest Gump is one of the most popular films we know of. Even.
Experiencing Cinema- Part I
My Blog's tagline used to be "The Movie blog for reviews, trailers, quotes and interesting stories." So, I write reviews, put some trailers, mention quotes too but what is missing is some interesting stories about the Movie Geek himself. Now is the.
