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A Wednesday, movie review
Debutant director Neeraj Pandey’s A Wednesday is about the aam junta who is trapped in mundane realities of eking out a survival in Mumbai (and now anywhere in India).

A Wednesday - movie review

The common man has almost got used to the idea that fundamentalism and terrorism is a way of life. But now he has finally been pushed over the edge. He is hurt and no longer willing to be the quiet victim. He has had enough! Mumbai, the financial capital of India, the city that never sleeps, the city of dreams, fast paced and ever changing, home to Bollywood! A city of beauty but also a city that got scarred! A city whose foundation is slowly crumbling beneath its facade of invincibility. A Wednestay tells the story of certain events that unfold between 2 and 6 pm on a particular Wednesday in this city. Events which do not exist in any record but which deeply affect the lives o ....
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Woodstock Villa, movie review
In the tradition of film noir that is guaranteed to shock, thrill and surprise. Woodstock Villa is a compelling film from the national award winning director Hansal Mehta, about swiftly changing moralities in today's world. This is what Woodstock Villa all about. After a successful businessman's stunning wife disappears, hostile & taunting ransom demands follow. As the true nature of stakes for the captor and his captives unfold, Woodstock Villa lithely transforms from a precision neo noir into a chilling & shocking thriller & ultimately into a vivid, invigorating icy masterpiece of murder, mystery and suspense. Samir (Sikander Kher) is a young, upwardly-mobile, Punjabi, professional who is sacked from his job. He is street-smart with a disarming manner, cunning in an innocent way, a handsome fellow who believes in living and loving dangerously. Being without a job, he ....
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Welcome
Yet another rib tickling film by director Anees Bazmee who continues his successful run in comedy movies and this time a bit of more drama and masala to make the proceedings more tangy. Loads of laughter in Welcome. Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar), Majnu bhai (Anil Kapoor) and their boss Sikander (Feroz Khan), are basically the comical yet dangerous mobsters. They are keen to get Uday's sister Sanjana (Katrina Kaif) married into a respectable family. Majnubhai happens to meet a handsome bachelor Rajiv (Akshay Kumar) by chance and is convinced that the Rajiv would be an appropriate match for Sanjana. Sanjana, being totally unaware of her brother's plans, happens to get into a dramatic encounter with Rajiv and they fall in love. Rajiv's uncle Dr. Ghunghroo (Paresh Rawal), being unaware of the fact that she is a gangster's sister approves the idea, but when he comes to know of her actual f ....
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Waarrior Savitri, movie review
Niharica Raizada's action scenes are the highlights of this film which is a modern-day adaption of the fable in the Mahabharata about Satyavan Savitri. The fable says that Savitri is cursed since her childhood that whoever she marries, her husband would die. Defying destiny, Savitri undertakes various tough 'vrats' and emerges successful in dodging Yamraj (Lord of Death) eventually managing to evade her husband's death and the couple lead a happy mortal life thereafter. Waarrior Savitri is written and directed by Param Gill. The film stars the debutante Niharica Raizada, grand daughter of legendary music composer O P Nayyar and Rajat Barmecha of 'Udaan' fame who plays Satya (Satyavan) supported by veteran actors Om Puri who plays Yamraj and Gulshan Grover. Since her childhood, this girl Savitri is cursed that she won't have a happy married life with her husband who would die after ....
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What we did on our Holiday
A heart warming, funny story about a family on vacation with kids innocently revealing secrets and intimate details about their parents. The goal of keeping a secret hence reaches the roadblock making this a great family laugh riot. Doug McLeod (David Tennant) is on the verge of his seperation with his wife Abi (Rosamund Pike). It happens to be Doug's father Gordie's (Billy Connolly) 75th birthday and the couple along with their three children have to travel to the Scottish Highlands for the grand celebration. Doug's father has terminal cancer, therefore his brother, a millionaire Gavin McLeod (Ben Miller) has arranged a lavish party to celebrate the old man's birthday. They have invited all the important people in the neighbourhood. Despite difficulties getting their three children, Lottie (Emilia Jones), Mickey (Bobby Smalldridge) and Jess (H ....
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For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. This adventure film has bright, colourful visuals, breathtaking outdoor locales as backdrop. The crew filmed footage on locations in the U.S. state of Alaska and then in New Zealand. These particular locations were chosen for their similarities to the dinosaurs' surroundings millions of years ago. Computer-animated dinosaurs were then created and added to the live-action backdrop. One gets to know dinosaurs more real than you've ever seen as you take off on a thrilling prehistoric adventure, where Patchi, an underdog dinosaur - the protagonist triumphs against all odds to become a hero for the ages. A small bright bird with teeth, Alex (an Alexornis bird) is our other guide to the Late Cretaceous. Alexornis is an extinct, prehistoric bird, which lived at the time of ....
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