Among all the fictional small towns created by Stephen King, Jerusalem’s Lot (Salem’s Lot) strikes the right chord. Other than the well spoken title which is most associated with salem’s lot – it is a small Maine town that for some reason or another becomes prey to a bloodthirsty vampire. There is also some sort […]
Have you ever heard a real life story which is so preposterous that you wonder how on earth such a thing could have taken place? It is easy to appreciate that Ron Howard has a penchant for screen adaptations on the stories of Apollo 13, Inheart of the sea and more recently 13 lives. You’ve
The Last Straw starts off with Andrea and Ervin Litkei’s achy “You Lied to My Heart” which previews the auditory engagement of the audience. Aviation images are quickly shot sequentially, first appearing is a blood mark on the counter then a bloody arm, and lastly an old decommissioned yellow telephone placed Off-Hook. What happened? We
Uglies is a film adaptation of a 2005 book authored by Scott Westerfeld concerning a society where everyone not beautiful is automatically termed as an “ugly” but. It is set in a futuristic stage where at the age of 16 everyone’s society undergoes an aesthetic operation so as to be “pretty”. After her best companion
In some cases, it has happened to you that you feel you already know a person well enough, and then you proceed to inwardly curse that person for having thought so. “How did I ever think that this is someone who is worth giving one’s respect?” Or viceversa – they were all right; what was
An aggressive Juliette Lewis becomes the prey in the compelling period thriller where Peter Dinklage, the main actor does not hold back from the first bloody image of the film. As with most of our massive novels placements are based on legendary novels, and with the The Thicket no such sympathy whatsoever is assigned to
Out Come the Wolves takes the age-old narrative of man versus nature and sets it in a heart pounding and bloody battle for self-preservation that is very illogical. The innocent enough plot features a reporter, his fiancé, and her best friend going on a relaxing retreat into the woods for the weekend to do some
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One of the defining scenes is set in the year 1992, which has many other memorable events in it as well. The mother of all crooks given prominence by Scott Eastwood addresses his younger sibling when there is a prospect of carrying out a crime. All it took was 12 racist f*s in Simi Valley.
Cinephiles all over the world must have been quite surprised upon learning that award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón had taken to television finally in Disclaimer. But we couldn’t help it, even after hearing that a pack of Academy Award winners and nominees would be heading behind the screen, together with past collaborator Cuarón and three-time Oscar
Close Your Eyes is in an altogether different league the last time a Spanish master bears in a film comes after a period of almost thirty years. It is with great slowness that a well-orchestrated but highly intimate enigma is revealed as would a master painter on an intricately planned canvas. The master’s resourceful hero