Night Falls, Knight Reigns.

Dear Christopher, Christian, Heath ( rest in peace man),
My memories of watching Batman on TV or in the movies prior to ‘Batman Begins’ were mainly of Batman saying something witty, fluorescent lights and bright scenes, a dramatic and theatrical ‘Two Face’. But the more i read Batman comics, the more I hated those movies, because they [...]

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Miss Misery

I just love this song by Elliot Smith. It’s from the movie ‘Good Will Hunting’ starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Afleck and Minnie Driver. Somehow I relate to this song, and it’s sung beautifully.
so here goes…
MISS MISERY
I’ll fake it through the day
With some help from johnny walker red
Send the poison rain down the drain
To [...]

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Of ignorants and megalomaniacs…

I saw Saanwariya recently. I saw it in a multiplex. I really understood why Bollywood has always failed to get an Academy award. We can never be creative or imaginative enough to make larger than life cinema. Not this generation atleast. I agree we show promise, but then we follow up with films like these [...]

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Jason Bourne Vs. Jason Bourne

Surprised??? Well I’ve been wanting to write this for a long time now, and now that I’ve taken up ‘The Bourne Supremacy’ for reading for the umpteenth time, I am really in the Bourne mode.
But why Bourne Vs. Bourne? The answer is simple. The legacy of this tremendously powerful character was carried on by Eric [...]

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Dead Poets Society…

Perhaps the most extraordinary ability of movies is that they make us dream. They give us hope, that things can be better and that there is something called as “good” which prevails relentlessly, infinitely and undoubtedly. I recently watched “Dead Poets Society”, starring Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke. It is about a preparatory school, rigid [...]

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