At the risk of sounding like an excitable 13 year old, I have to say..

She has the most amazing phone voice ever.

Do you remember.. back in your schooldays.. Its a regular evening, you're at home with your family halfway through dinner smalltalk watching TV and the phone rings. You know who it is, you've been waiting for this call quite sometime(it should've rung half hour back). You reach for the cordless and retire to your room. Your parents give you quizzical looks, they know you ain't coming back anytime soon. This has been going on for a week now and they want to talk to you about it.

Well, those days are back again. I gush like a schoolkid everytime I see her name flash on my cellphone. I didn't think I was capable of two hour phone conversations anymore.. thought I grew out of it 8 years ago.











...yeah I know. With this, I lose my tough guy badge and my blog spirals into mediocrity but meeting her last week ignited rocket thrusters on my legs and I blasted off into outer space amidst a huge rumble and clouds of exhaust.

Confessions of an unpaid homebased beerdrinking chickenwings eating movie critic:
I'm a sucker for any movie which stars a gun wielding Bruce Willis.
I have all the Die Hard movies on DVD. So what if you didn't like 16 Blocks? I'll secretly watch it at home inspite of the bad reviews online. There's more to him than the honest cop who beats up local thugs/ international terrorists/ other not so honest cops. He's capable of playing lead roles in other genres too, you name it he's been there, romance (The Story of Us, Moonlighting), comedy (The Whole Nine Yards, Friends), sci-fi (The Fifth Element, 12 Monkeys) , thriller (The Sixth Sense, do you remember the stellar father figure like screen presence) and film noir (Sin City, Pulp Fiction). But till this very day, he remains one of the most typecast and underrated actors in the industry.

Whether you play John Hartigan or John McLane.. Mr.Willis, I admire you and I'd like to have a beer with you someday.


Opens this weekend in the US. Coming soon to a theatre near you.

"Lucky Number Slevin," a shallow, dandified grandson of "Pulp Fiction", is the movie equivalent of a junior high school showoff desperate to prove he knows more than the teacher. Frantically raising his hand to answer every question, he exhibits the gleeful self-satisfaction of a quiz kid explaining the theory of relativity.

But because the teacher in this case is Quentin Tarantino, topics like the merits of the various James Bonds, the plot of "North by Northwest" and the personality of a 50's cartoon character called the Shmoo are what matters. In the Tarantino school, the pesky loudmouth might get an A. But what good would it do him in the real world?

Read the rest of the NY Times Review here

Irreversible(2002)


Written and Directed by Gaspar Noe(I haven't seen his other films) this French movie is by far one of the most disturbing movies ever made. If you thought A Clockwork Orange was violent, you really need to see this. Its not entirely gore, there's no gangsters, no guns,.. the characters are regular people. One moment you're squirming in your seat at some of the most disgusting and violent acts ever viewed on screen and in the other you're lost in a tender love scene of a couple waking up to each other.

When it was shown at Cannes Film Festival, around 200 people(mostly professional film critics) walked out of the screening, sickened(physically) and needing medical attention. I don't believe in giving out any spoilers so I won't delve into the story. Basically, the gruesome events taking place on a night in Paris are shown backwards (a la Christopher Nolan's Memento). I can't even begin to tell you how real the movie is. It consists of 12 seperate single-take continuous segments without cuts. Camerawork is mostly handheld and its constant movement might cause viewers to get nauseated. The acting is very natural, much of the dialogue is unscripted and Monica Belucci is beauty personified.


The film doesn't glorify or glamorize violence. Yes, there is a stark & horrifying rape scene and a brutal murder, both shot very explicitly but then again, its a sick world, face it. These things happen at alarming rates as per crime statistics in the US/India/anywhere in the world.

Verdict: Unforgivingly disturbing. Not for the faint of heart.