Last week, acknowledging my lack of things to do, my friend considerately brought me a book she had found lying in her basement. It was called Transgressions, featuring two short stories, one by Stephen King and the other by a John Farris.
I had never read a Stephen King before, and thought it was a good chance to see what all the hype was about. His story was called The Things They Left Behind. To start off with, it was about a topic which I was not expecting. I never read...
I’m shivering as I set out to write this review; and I cannot decide whether its because Karachi is hitting record lowest temperatures, or is this chill going down my spine the same one that I have been experiencing since last July while watching the online trailer of “Cloverfield” with the bone-chilling scream? I now truly know exactly how I would feel coming face to face with a monster that could wipe away my whole neighborhood with one sweep of its hand!
It was...
Director David Cronenberg, one-time horror icon, continues to branch into the gangster genre of film with his follow-up to A History of Violence, the Russian mafia-centered, Oscar-nominated melodrama Eastern Promises. Viggo Mortensen stars, as he did in History, as a tough gangster type, with Cronenberg once again peppering his trademark outlandish and extreme violence into the story of a mobster with a heart of gold. It is Mortensen who has earned the film's sole Oscar nomination, for...
In short, Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code is a very good movie with a lot of great things in it. The movie is not “great”, and to me certainly not something that Ron Howard put his heart in to. Though not consistent, the man has some incredibly great and/or enjoyable movies under his belt. Have you seen Splash, Gung Ho, Backdraft, Cocoon or Apollo 13? Even very recently I found both Cinderella Man and A Beautiful Mind to be outstanding and compelling movie making. The word...
It’s been long enough since this movie came out that those of you who were going to see this movie have probably already seen it, and have probably read enough conflicting and politically charged reviews of the film to have formed your own opinion on it. You know the basic plot: a terrorist known only as “V” challenges a fascist government in mid 2000’s Britain. The question over whether V’s...
I have been wanting to see this movie for a long time, for no better reason, I think, than I came across it while looking through the collection at the library and liked the picture on the sleeve. I have a casual acquaintance with John Le Carre’s work and the film adaptations of it, but I would hasten to point out that the books I’ve read (at least two) are not the ones that there are movies for, whether or not I’ve seen them.
This is the earliest adaptation of...
I have begun, in my old age, to appreciate Cary Grant. I can remember when I was younger, watching his films, Bringing Up Baby comes to mind as a prime example, and failing to grasp what he was up to. Katharine Hepburn was comparatively easy to read, spoiled and headstrong and not comprehending that not everyone is there to make her happy, but her romantic foil… well, Cary Grant, or the archetypal Cary Grant character, I should say, is not someone for whom there is an obvious...
Relentlessly Good Movie with a Great Cast
It has been almost a decade since Harrison Ford’s incredible Air Force One. Any devoted fan could lose faith after any two of his last few movies; Hollywood Homicide, Random Hearts, [gasp]
