The Olden Army
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Comic book films, Computer Graphics, Danny Elfman, Doug Jones, Guillermo Del Toro, Hellboy, Hellboy 2, Hellboy 2 review, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Hollywood, James Dodd, Johann Krauss, Luke Goss, Mythical world, Pan’s Labyrinth, Paranormal beings, Popular Love Songs, Prince Nuada, Review, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Superhero Films, The Golden Army, film review, mutants
“Cigar. Cuban. Now you pissed me off!” says the protagonist of Guillermo Del Toro’s latest venture Hellboy II: The Golden Army as the baddie’s sidekick Wink, yields a blow to his face, making his favorite tool fall into water. With a face that looks like a cross of a samurai and X-Men mutant beast, Hellboy […]
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Flashback #35
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as 12 Angry Men, All Posts, Character Study, Citizen Kane, Duel, Film debut, Flashback, Henry Fonda, Hollywood, Juror #8, Jury, Lee. J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, Minimalism, Truth, courtroom dramas, prejudice, rashomon
12 Angry Men (1957)
Sidney Lumet
English
“I’m just saying it’s possible”
If I was to choose one debut movie from Hollywood that I would have loved to make, it would not be Citizen Kane (1941), it would not be Duel (1971) but it would be Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men (1957). Perhaps the word “Powerhouse” was coined keeping […]
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Flashback #33
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Asphalt Jungle, Film-noir, Flashback, Gangster films, Heist films, Hollywood, Nikki Arcane, Peatty couple, Reservoir Dogs, Rififi, Robbery, Stanley Kubrick, Tarantino, The Killing, non-linear narration
The Killing (1956)
Stanley Kubrick
English
“It isn’t fair. I never had anybody but you. Not a real husband. Not even a man. Just a bad joke without a punch line…”
Whenever Kubrick’s canon of films is discussed, this quiet little early gem is invariably lost out amidst the mammoths like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and A Clockwork […]
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Flashback #31
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as Aguirre: The Wrath of God, All Posts, Apocalypse Now, Brando, Captain Willard, Colonel Kurtz, Dennis Hopper, Flashback, Francis Ford Coppola, Harrison Ford, Heart of Darkness, Hollywood, Joseph Conrad, Klaus Kinski, Laurence Fishburne, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, The Doors, Vittorio Storaro, Werner Herzog, war in films, war movie
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola
English
“The Horror, The Horror.”
The name Francis Ford Coppola has become synonymous with The Godfather (1972). The Coppola-Puzo-Brando-Rota quartet had indeed pulled off what many could not even have dreamt of. But a film released a few years after the lionization of Don Vito Corleone, Apocalypse Now (1979), may arguably be Coppola’s […]
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2815: A Space Odyss-E
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Andrew Stanton, CG animation, EVE, Future, Futuristic Films, Hollywood, Ice Age, Pixar, Presto, Review, Robots, Scrat, Thomas Newman, WALL-E, WALL•E, animation, spaceships
Right from the inception of fully computerized animation in Toy Story (1995), Pixar has been the best in their domain, by and large (no puns intended, hope none taken!). Time and again, I have been swept away by each one of their films. How I wish every time that some other animation company in USA […]
Popularity: 2%
Joker On The Loose!
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as Aaron Eckhart, All Posts, Batman, Batman Begins, Christian bale, Christopher Nolan, Gary Oldman, Gordon, Harvey Dent, Heath Ledger, Hollywood, Joker, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Review, The Dark Knight, Two Face, superhero
The DC versus Marvel battle continues as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight arrives along the wake of the success of Iron Man (2008). With almost all of the filmdom going gaga over the performance of Heath Ledger even before the film’s release, it was but naturally clever for Warner Brothers to leverage this mass curiosity […]
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Awesomeness… For Kids
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Angelina Jolie, Crane, David Cross, Dreamworks, Dustin Hoffman, Hollywood, Jackie Chan, Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu panda Review, Lucy Liu, Mantis, Monkey, Po, Review, Seth Rogen, Shifu, Snake, Tai Lung, Tigress
Traditionally, there have been two paths for animation filmmakers. One is to make the films as close to reality as possible. That is the path taken by Pixar and Sony Animation, which try to push animation technology to new extremes and squeeze out every bit of processing power and skill set they have. The other […]
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“The Birds” Revisited
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as Alfred Hitchcock, All Posts, Hollywood, Mark Wahlberg, Night Shyamalan, Review, The Birds, The Happening, The Happening review
What if the air that we breathe could kill us? What is the effect of increase in human population on nature? What happens when humans settlements clear vegetation? How will nature react to it? Can science reason the reaction, if there is one? These are the issues explored in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest venture The […]
Popularity: 4%
The Lost Crusade
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Cate Blanchett, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Hollywood, ILM, Indiana Jones, Indy, Janusz Kaminski, Paramount pictures, Review, Steven Spielberg, The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
George Lucas: “This ain’t gonna be easy”
Steven Spielberg: “Not as easy as it used to be”
Lucas and Spielberg are at it again. After the intensely dramatic Munich, Spielberg freaks out and does what he does best - getting people on their feet. I don’t know why he chose Indiana Jones for that. Probably, he didn’t […]
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Rusted…Almost
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hollywood, Iron Man, Jeff Bridges, Jon Favreau, Marvel, Pepper, Review, Robert Downey jr., Tony Stark, comics, special effects, superhero
Question: “What kind of film do you want to see?”
American 1: “I want a Superhero movie”
American 2: “I want an Iraqi war movie”
American 3: “I want to things go BOOM, BANG and CLANK, with lotsa cool special FX”
Thus, Iron Man was born (Sounds like the perfect specimen for dubbing into all languages, from Bhojpuri to […]
Popularity: 6%
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