The Force has awakened! No one back in 1983 knew it would. Likewise, the parents of the majority of the audience I saw the movie with, hadn’t decided to have them back then too. So,…

The Return of the Jedi found me exhausted with this series. In spite of the initial excitement of watching this cultural phenomenon of a movie, I found it hard to continue sticking to my initial…

The Empire Strikes Back starts on an icy remote planet. The rebels are being hunted by the dark forces and forced to evacuate their base. The tensions in the relationship between Han and Leia play out,…

I have been meaning to see the Star Wars series for sometime now, having first heard of it a from a geeky friend in college. I remember that he rolled his eyes when I said…

Why are there certain movies that you’d like to live forever in and others that you want to run away from, in a few minutes? Is it about you or is it about the movie?…

All those blog words away, at the end of the article on my experiences in search of a career, I had written, “I am now growing my own wings to fly in my own sky…. and soon,…

When the cyclone Thane struck the shores of Chennai, there was an unexpected and unfortunate personal loss! It was the loss of catching a good movie, that was leaving theatres that very week. Although unexplainable…

Readers of this blog are aware that sometimes even a rocket’s buzz doesn’t rouse me enough to write. Surprisingly, it’s a fly and it’s war-cry!… And here I was thinking, “What? A revenge-story about a fly…

Once again, I am jolted from my months-long literary slumber by a magical journey. Here you are, on a theatre seat one moment and vanishing into thin air, the next. It is very rare that…

Experienced a movie or was it a dream? No, way too logical to be a dream. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSyQ3K0xnYg&w=560&h=349] The layers of the seemingly complex subconscious presented simply! The stunning visuals, spatial magic, surreal performances are…

Drugs. Movies with this background, was way down on my list, only a notch above horror movies, which is a complete no-no for me. Such was my aversion to these movies, that anything with this…

How can one write a review for a movie that didn’t end? Well, why not? You walk out of so many Tamil movies and throw away so many Hollywood discs in disgust, to quote Woody…

In my rating scheme, I am beginning to move up the slot for Italian movies, quite close to the French. A couple of masterpieces are the reason for this ‘falling-in-love-all-over-again’ phenomenon. Don’t Tell/2005 Imagine watching a…

An enchanting movie set in 1960s HongKong. The outward appearance and the attire of the characters are so comfortably western whereas the feelings and the societal constraints, through the movie, mirror Oriental philosophies. It is…

Movies…I have rolled in laughter, sympathized, empathized and shed many tears over this grand illusion. In my years in the US, one fascinating thing that kept me going was the ease of movie-watching. At one…