Month: December 2005
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King Kong – Demi ‘Peter Jackson’ God
An outright commercial. Fantasy flick. Overtly sentimental. Glitches here and there. Popcorn muncher’s special. Graphics Galore. Yet its an accomplishment in modern cinema. Its bigger than what you have seen before. While it pays tributes to many classics, its tries to get better than all of them. It slightly succeeds too. If you are a…
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Rajini’s Sivaji – Get…Set..Go !!
[Click Pic for a bigger version] [Scanned from newspaper, this morning] Recieved this Sivaji poster a few minutes back from Karthi, a friend and a theevira Rajini fan, who eventually told me first about Jaggubhai stuff. If only I got my hand on this yesterday…what a birthday post, it would have made. Yo !! is…
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Vikatan goes bonker-bonks
Seems like movie of the year has finally arrived. Ananda Vikatan’s review of Thavamaai Thavamirundhu[needs uid/pass] would even make a Cheran basher, develop an urge to watch the movie. Cheran has been writing a series for Vikatan on making of this movie. Vikatan’s overwhelming response could be a result of that but I choose to…
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Big fish. Small Fish.
Even with a string of not-so-big movies and a long tail of media ventures failing, I was hoping that Spielberg’s Dreamworks SKG would never go away. But the ancient theory of big fish eating small fish happened to spill over Spielberg’s dreams too. And Paramount bought Dreamworks for $1.6 billion. By no way one could…
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As Big B falls sick,
Shankar & his team manages a mallu back-up. A hefty back-up thats arguably better than the originally chosen ‘one’. Big B would have been nice-to-have on the tamil screen. Still, I’m lovin’ it !!
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