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Big Game, movie review
Fate of the most powerful man in the world lies in the hands of a 13-year-old boy Oskari, a timid young lad yearning to prove his capability to the village elders. Big Game - movie review BIG GAME is about the young Oskari’s determination to prove to his Village folk that he has grown up, that he is a ‘man’ and can fend for himself in the wilderness of the forest. In the village in Finland, the tradition dictates that like his forefathers before him, the boy’s time has come to spend one day and one night alone in the wilderness. Armed with only a bow and arrow, he must return with a prize to prove himself a man. Though his village elders, possibly his father too doubt his ability, the young Oskari embarks on his first solo hunting expedition into the Finnish forests: a coming-of-age tradition among his people. Terrified and alone, he wanders through a vast and unforg ....
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Editorial
Peter Ho sun Chan

Li Na’s  BEST-SELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY SET FOR FEATURE FILM   CANNES, FRANCE (May 16, 2015) — Renowned Chinese filmmaker Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s We Pictures and China’s highest-ranked tennis player Li Na are bringing Li Na: My Life to screen.  Based on Li Na’s best-selling autobiography, “Li Na: My Life” (working title) will be produced and directed by Chan with Li Na serving as a…

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Mad Max: Fury Road
Director George Miller, originator of the post - apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary “Mad Max” franchise has comes up with “Mad Max: Fury Road,” - a return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Miller unleashes a world gone mad with the concussive force of a high octane Road War as only he can deliver it. The futuristic-thinking director has pushed the limits of contemporary cinema to re-imagine the beauty and chaos of the post-apocalyptic world he created and the mythic Road Warrior adrift within it. Tom Hardy stars as Max in the title role in the fourth part in the franchise’s history. Oscar winner Charlize Theron stars as Imperator Furiosa. Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a WarRig driven by Imperator Furi ....
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
It is an evening of celebration in New York City at the Museum of Natural History with "special effects" to entertain the guests. A special SFX show showcasing with live acts from the museum exhibits including Theodore Roosevelt, Attila the Hun, Sacagawea, Dexter the Capuchin Monkey, and Rexy, the Tyrannosaurus skeleton. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb movie review... Suddenly things go out of control and guests scamper around to save themselves from the havoc created by malfunctioning of the SFX. Larry Daley, a security guard at the Museum of Natural History is overseeing a nighttime event with Dr. McPhee, the curator of the museum in attendance. It is not the Special Effects that have misfired. The fact is that the museum exhibits come to life during nights and in the process of following their rehearsed act, everyone runs amok. The reason being the gradual corrosion o ....
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Nightcrawler, Hollywood film
An engrossing thriller about an unemployed, part time thief who rises to become an owner of the most competitive business in the American television industry. NIGHTCRAWLER movie review... Every night, while the city sleeps, motley crews armed with fast cars, expensive video cameras and blaring police radios prowl the sprawling Los Angeles basin in search of a story. These freelance stringers, known as nightcrawlers, hunt for crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem in hopes of selling the footage to local TV news. Pin-balling from one police scene to the next, they are driven by a simple equation that converts crime and victims into dollars and cents. An unemployed man Loius Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) turns a petty thief stealing wire meshes and other metal scrap which he sells at half the price. This thief has the inclination to turn ethical in life. But who would give a job to a thi ....
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Grace of Monaco
The opening film at Festival de Cannes was greeted with mixed reactions from critics. Produced by YRF Entertainment and Stone Angels, GRACE OF MONACO is a biography film about the life of Grace Kelly, the Academy award winning actress who married to the Prince of Monaco. On the brink of stardom, Grace Kelly leaves aside her successful career as a Hollywood actress to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. Grace Kelly, post her marriage with the Prince of Monaco, has been out of the US for a considerable time. She has given up her Hollywood career and she now has kids to care and manage other issues in this tiny kingdom. There are troublesome times when she finds it difficult to cope up with this royal lifestyle and its traditions, this is where she is often guided by Tucker (Frank Langella) a priest seeking his advice in diplomatic issues and even to the extent of getting tips ....
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Fading Gigolo
It is about people’s endless and never fully satisfying quest to find happiness through sex and love. (FADING GIGOLO - Movie Review) Fading Gigolo starring John Turturro as Fioravante is a poignant movie that touches upon the growing aspect of sadness resulting from loneliness amongst the aging elite and even ordinary simple people. Murray played by Woody Allen meets Dr. Parker an aging cosmetologist, played by Sharon Stone, and discovers that there is no jest in her and suggests that she should pep up her life. He gets a call from her asking him to arrange for a gigolo. Murray talks to his friend Fioravante, a middle aged man who is a florist to adopt this new profession and offers to become his manager. Fioravante first refuses arguing that he is not an Adonis nor have the film star looks or the body, besides he is over the hill. Murray tells him women look for matu ....
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Million Dollar Arm
The film portrays beautifully the Journey of two talented young players from a small town of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, India who later become the baseball players of a top league in America. 'Million Dollar Arm 'directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Tom McCarthy is an inspirational film based on the real life story of Sports agent J B Bernstein who discovered baseball pitchers from a remote village in India. The film opens with JB played by Jon Hamm and his Indian origin partner Ash played by Aasif Mandvi lamenting the loss of their big account Popo. Apart from being partners JB and Ash share a deep friendship. JB is a no-nonsensical guy whose romantic life is non existent. He has rented part of his house to a medical student Brenda played by Lake Bell. Ash jokingly tells JB that he would not be interested in her because she is intelligent so obviously not his type. Both ....
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Sabotage
Members of the elite DEA task force thought they were invincible. But they were wrong. Arnold is back in Sabotage, a dark, violent crime, revenge action film. Based on Agatha Christie's 'And Then there Were None', Arnie plays John Wharton a.k.a. “Breacher”, the head of an elite DEA task force taking out drug cartels in the city of Atlanta. The mission of this task force is to bust durg cartels and ticking people off. Other members of his team are played by Sam Worthington, Mireille Enos and Terrence Howard. After a big drug bust, the mission in a cartel safe house leads to ten million dollars of the drug money in cash goes missing, members of the elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house. But someone has outwit them and the haul of ten million dollars is missing. The task force faces disgrace and disbandment ....
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Her
Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, 'Her' follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. (Her - movie review) Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship with Catherine (Rooney Mara), Theodore buys himself a new hand-held computer device which fits in his shirt pocket and take it around where ever he goes. He becomes intrigued with this new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own right, individual to each user. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet “Samantha,” a bright, female voice, who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. Scarlett Johansson is Samantha, the most intresting character in the film. Samantha doesn't have a body, one cannot see her. One can hear her voice, experience her companionship, be with her, ....
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