VALKYRIE ( DIR: BRYAN SINGER ) 2008

This film portrays the attempt of Von Stauffenberg to assassinate Hitler in order to save German.The film is based on the true facts."Valkyrie" was the name of a series of operations to be executed in time of emergency.Stauffenberg changed a bit of these operations and planned to kill Hitler,which would cause an emergency and he will be able to enforce "Valkyrie".But his attempt failed and he along with his associates were shot dead.

The film could have been better.Its enough time that people stop thinking thatGerman,2nd World War,Nazis,SS etc are sufficient enough to make a film succeed.

THE IRON GIANT ( DIR: BRAD BIRD ) 1999

Little Hogarth makes friend with a huge iron robot when it crash lands in his neighbourhood from outer space.He tries to keep him hidden from other people and an poky NSA agent....


The film lacks the sense of proportionality in terms of the size of the iron robot.Otherwise its a good animation film.

THICK AS THIEVES ( DIR: MIMI LEDER ) 2009

Ripley,a master thief offers Gabrial to be his partner in stealing gems worth $40 million....

Except Antonio Banderas ( Gabrial) i found nothing in the movie worth watching or new.

BILLU BARBER ( DIR: PRIYADARSHAN ) 2009

Billu,a poor barber from a remote village used to tell his children and wife that he was a friend of film star Sahir Khan.One day to shoot his new film Sahir Khan comes to Billu's village.Billu's family tell everyone that Billu and Sahir were great friends and other stories.Everyone try to please Billu by various means so that they might get a chance to get near Sahir Khan.Billu denies the fact from the beginning to others and tells them to go away only to give them the expression that he was being modest.Slowly everyone start to feel that they were fooled and lodge false cases against Billu.Even his children start to hate him.On the last day Sahir Khan comes to the village school to talk with the children.There seeing the little children Sahir reminisces about his own childhood.How poor he was and how his friend Billu helped him to become what he is today.How he searched for his childhood friend but cannot find him.Billu always thought Sahir wont recognize him,thus tried to avoid meeting him but hearing this from a distance he walks away home satisfied in heart.Soon Sahir visits Billu's house and the two friends are reunited.

We presume something and start believing in it,never knowing the truth.Distances more often virtual and of silly kind,start to come between as people grow up.

SUNSHINE ( DIR: DANNY BOYLE ) 2007

A group of astronauts are the last hope of the mankind.The Sun is dying and there mission is to make an explosion in the Sun to reignite it.For this they are to travel to Sun.The film takes place inside the space ship Icarus 2 and in the space.

As long as you don't ask common questions like which doorway in the space ship leads where,you will probably enjoy the movie.When everybody is concerned with global warming,the film deals with a totally opposite emergency.

GHOST TOWN ( DIR: DAVID KOEPP ) 2008

Dr. Pincus,a dentist,chose to live a self centered,rude life.He was doing fine until the day he started seeing dead people who has unfinished business.Frank who died recently, desperately wants to stop his "was" wife from marring another guy and thus seeks Dr Pincus's help,as he is the only person who can communicate with the dead.Like Frank all the other dead people also want his help....

A feel good movie.

TRAINSPOTTING ( DIR: DANNY BOYLE ) 1996

In the film we find Renton and four friends of him in Edinburgh.The film is a narration by Renton.Renton,a drug addict is sure about one thing,he is not going to "choose" the things in his life.Rather he would live life as he feels it.To him drugs are far better than sex.After getting caught by security guards for shoplifting,Renton decides to quite drug and goes to London,although he keeps contact with his friends in Edinburgh.The death of Tommy,brings the remaining four friends together in his funeral and SickBoy comes up with a drug deal which will bring money to them.After the successful deal,Renton runs away with the money.He decides that its about time for him to start making choices in his life.

When the film talked of drug,it showed it without glamour.Its a treat to see the film,regardless of whether you know the story or not.Although the scenes can get pretty vulgar at points of time.

DEV D ( DIR: ANURAG KASHYAP ) 2009

In the beginning the film claims to be "loosely" based on the novel DEVDAS.The characters in the film share the same names and more or less the same roles as in the novel DEVDAS.Its not hard to find people who after breaking their heart take to drugs and shut themselves away from life.If this film have not made that claim in the beginning and changed the characters' names,it could have been another film.But probably the film intentionally wanted to mock this kind of Devdas-es.The ending of the film is different though.Dev finds love and realizes that being alive is reason enough to be happy.In the end he confesses to Chanda..."I always wanted to love Paro,but never loved her..".Soon when his constant flow of money from family business stopped,Dev was brought back to real life from the glamour of being a tragic hero.Apart from the story line,the cinema was well shown,with experiments which are not common in Bollywood movies.The music used also helped the movie.

CONFESSIONS OF PAIN ( DIR: LAU WAI-KEUNG, MAK SIU FAI ) 2006

After his wife's suicide, Bong resigns from the police force,becomes an alcoholic and works as a private eye with the help of his chief Hei.Now after the brutal murders of Hei's father in law and his associate,Hei' wife requests Bong to investigate in that case.Bong finds a lot more than what he bargained for....

CHE:PART 1 ( DIR: STEVEN SODERBERG ) 2008

This part starts with Ernesto,an Argentine,meeting Fidel Castro.Ernesto joins Fidel's humble group of approximately 80 rebels,with which they started the Cuban revolution.Slowly Ernesto becomes an integral part of the revolution.He becomes popular by the nick name "che", which is an Argentine way to address common people.They overthrow Batista.Although Ernesto wanted to spread the revolution all through out the Latin America,Castro was content with the win in Cuba. This part ends with Ernesto on his way to Havana.

In between his journey the film shows the speeches Ernesto delivered in front of the UN and also his answers to many questions asked to him in interviews. The film is an informative in site to the journey of Ernesto and also the revolution.

BEDTIME STORIES ( DIR: ADAM SHANKMAN ) 2008

Skeeter's life changes when the bedtime stories he tells to his nephew and niece start to come true in their own accord.

A feel good movie.But Disney should have done better.

OUTLANDER ( DIR: HOWARD MC CAIN ) 2008

Kainan,a man from a far off planet crash lands in Norway during the time of the Vikings and accidentally brings with him an alien predator known as Moorwen.First Kainan was held hostage,but after winning their trust Kainan leads the Vikings to hunt down the creature.

Just another silly movie.