Fat Head is a funny and engaging documentary that is saying how we could have been told all the wrong things about eating by science and society. How can eating fast food make you lose weight? You might be wondering. Watch this and you will find out. Personally, I have been on a calorie counting diet for some time and [...]

‘Oblivion’ Featurette: A Look Inside ‘Oblivion’ Featurette: The World Of Oblivion ‘Oblivion’ B-roll Oblivion is a 2013 science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski and based on his unpublished graphic novel of the same name. Initially I was not expecting much as I thought the director’s previous film Tron: Legacy was mediocre. However, I was totally blown [...]

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Description from YouTube and Wikipedia: Director Jafar Panahi was put under house arrest in 2010 and banned from filmmaking for 20 years. This film was smuggled out of Iran on a USB stick hidden in a cake. It’s been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in [...]

*** This review may contain spoilers *** The Place Beyond the Pines is in the same vein as Paul Haggis’s Academy Award winning Crash (2004) and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel (2006). Apart from the resembling themes of lives crossing paths and consequences, the characters portrayed are ambiguous morally and multi-layered. Good guys are not necessarily better people and bad guys [...]

Director and writer François Ozon has written a captivating screenplay and found an almost perfect cast to pull it off. Fabrice Luchini gave a consummate performance as the literature teacher (Germain) who pins his literary hopes on the rare talented student (Claude) he discovered in his class. Ernst Umhauer, as Claude, was utterly convincing as the creepy and psychotic teenage [...]

With scores of teenage and young adult romance movies such as the Twilight Saga and Beautiful Creatures hitting the big screens of late, I initially thought Warm Bodies would be another similar genre film. Lo and behold, Warm Bodies actually boasts a simple but pretty innovating premise that zombies could be cured. I could not recall watching any zombie film [...]

Quentin Tarantino’s latest flick has won him two Oscars recently — Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Christoph Waltz). Django Unchained is set to become another cult film for the highly acclaimed auteur. The film is also seemingly Tarantino’s first attempt in instilling some morality in his story [...]

Stoker is famed Korean director Park Chan Wook’s debut hollywood feature. The filmmaker of the vengeance trilogy, including “Oldboy” which ranks among the top Korean films of all time, did not disappoint. Park’s hallmark on-screen sex, violence and twist is still present in Stoker, albeit a little more subdued. Cinematography is top-notch and you can feel that every scene has [...]

Ignorance is bliss. How else would two young Kurdish brothers, one of them 5 years old and another probably 10, actually make an attempt to travel to America without a penny and help? And this is the simple yet intriguing premise of Bekas (meaning orphans), of a road trip adventure to meet Superman in America. For the older and more [...]