Category: Two-minute reviews
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Perfumaniac
Perfume is passionately made, vividly colorful, sinfully sensuous but slightly slow and terribly long. An authentic book-to-screen story, directed by Tom Tykwer(Run Lola Run) and originally written as a hugely popular novel[Das Parfum] by Patrick Suskind. It talks about a French orphan boy with a superhuman sense for smell. As he grows, he meets a…
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Masalaman Returns !!
Watched Superman Returns in the IMAX with selected scenes on 3D. It’s an 85 foot screen with some fabulous sound system. And its probably the biggest screen a cinephile gets to watch in his lifetime. Still…Read ahead. Kevin Spacey did disappoint. Why did he ever accepted to do the movie in first place ? That…
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Arun Vaidyanathan’s The Seance
How would write a two-minute review for a short film that only runs for six minutes and two seconds, to be exact ? You could. If the movie is well made. Not just because the maker is your friend. This isn’t written because I know Arun for sometime now. Arun‘s The Seance is truly a…
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Thiruttu Payaley
Susi Ganesan strikes back with a simplistic thriller that proceeds as interesting as a Bhagyaraj screenplay. Once you are out of the theatre you can’t avoid the feeling that the movie was mediocre but when you are at it, just like a pulp fiction, it interestingly thrills. Thiruttu Payaley’s screenplay has all twists of a…
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The Constant Gardener
Was classy, slick and well executed. Intriguing [sometimes confusing] at the start, it goes on to become a fantastic message movie, something that one wouldn’t expect from the Fernando Meirelles, the director of City of God[COG]. If this were to be a blurb on a poster, it would read, John le Carré‘s Tour-de-force. A perfect…
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