Godzilla (2014)

Director  :  Gareth Edwards Cast       :  Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen I’ll make this short: Godzilla is a damp squib. Sixteen years after Roland Emmerich generated shock and awe among my generation of Hollywood film viewers with his take on this Japanese movie monster, Gareth Edwards’ re-telling of the tale comes with just a whiff of a story and adds nothing so dramatically improved by way of special effects to justify a remake. Like most great monster stories, this one too is meant as an allegory for the potential impact of human interference in nature. Godzilla – or Gojira as the Japanese

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Mr. Fraud (2014) Malayalam Movie Review

Director  :  Unnikrishnan B Cast        :  Mohanlal, Siddique, Miya Bhai'ji (Mohanlal) is a conman who is about to perform his "one last job" Script & Direction - For those who remember B Unnikrishnan's tweets/facebook updates, he clearly mentioned that the film is a mass masala commercial entertainer. Eventhough the promos and other reports claim that its a heist movie, I took B Unnikrishnan's words more than giving value to the term heist. Now what I liked about this movie in that angle is the racy first half which entertained the fan in me...especially the scenes featuring Mohanlal. Now I

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How Old Are You (2014) Malayalam Movie Review

Director  :  Rosshan Andrews Cast       :  Kunchacko Boban, Manju Warrier Nirupama Rajeevan (Manju Warrier) leads a normal life of a UDC in Collectorate when an incident through her daughter changes her life. Script - Bobby-Sanjay...The most guaranteed name among the current list of scriptwriters....The biggest challenge they have encountered will be the number of woman centric movies which created impact in recent times like Queen, English Vinglish etc etc. Plus they have the hype of Manju Warrier's comeback project. According to me, How Old Are You is the best woman centric movie in recent tim

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Neighbors (2014) Movie Review

Director  :  Nicholas Stoller Cast       :  Zac Efron, Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne Neighbors or bad neighbors as it's called pretty much everywhere else other than the US stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as couples who just had a baby recently. They moves into a new house and getting used to life as parents. All of a sudden a fraternity moves in next door which is not good as they goona be partying loud all the time and they are not goona be able to sleep, not only them but their baby too. It causes a lot of problems. The President of the fraternity is played by Zac Efron and the whole is just kinda them feuding back and

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God's Own Country (2014) Malayalam Movie Review

Director  :  Vasudev Sanal Cast        :  Fahad Fazil, Lal, Sreenivasan After the "Traffic", we saw many movies following the multiple narrative format (Hope the term is correct  ). Now "God's Own Country" follows the same route which started to become more or less like a new gen stereotyped formula used in the mainstream cinema. Other than Traffic & Shutter, I really didn't find any movies impressive that followed this format. Now here also the film gives us the image of 3 characters in form of Mathan (Sreenivasan), Manu (Fahad), Muhammed (Lal) and the incidents/obstacles/challenge

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Oculus (2014) Movie Review

Director :  Mike Flangan Csat        :  Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Roy Cochrane, Kate Sackhoff Oculus is about a brother and sister who had a tragic event happened to them when they were kids. You don't know exactly what happened to them at first but you find out it as the movie goes on. The brother was in a mental hospital until he is 21 and he is finally released. He reunites with his sister and apparently whatever caused this tragic event is related to a mirror that they had in their house and they seem to believe that something supernatural behind this mirror that caused this tragic event to happen and they

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Mosayile Kuthira Meenukal (2014) Movie Review

Director : Ajith Pillai Cast      : Asif Ali, Sunny Wayne, Janani Iyer, Swati Reddy What makes Mosayile Kuthira Meenukal so interesting is its fresh trajectory. Director Ajith Pillai’s debut movie starts off in a very simple way with interesting humor and peculiar characterization. But as it moves on to that Lakshadweep phase, there is a whole lot of fresh perspectives with life in them. The story basically narrates from the view point of Alex, the 14th son of Kuriachen. After his father’s death Alex is left with a whole lot of money and property and the young aimless guy ultimately ends up in a jail for a cr

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Movie Review

Director : Marc Webb Cast     : Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Sally Field, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti,  There’s a point in last year’s Man of Steel, when Clark Kent in his pre-Superman childhood days uses his superpowers to save another kid from an accident. Much to his confusion, instead of gratitude he evokes fear in that child. “People are scared of what they don’t understand,” his foster father played by Kevin Costner explains to him. Sometimes, undeterred by that reaction, the object of fear goes on to become Superman, Spiderman or some other enemy of evil; sometimes that reaction combined with self-doub

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