By: preme | On: 31 Jan, 2010
Review
3 Idiots is one of the best films to have ever come out of bollywood. It doesn’t make you feel like an idiot, like other contemporary comedies . It’s an eye opener and gives an accurate picture of what the Indian education system is all about. The director, Raju Hirani, delivers another gem, thanks to a very gripping screenplay and superb editing. The script, losely inspired from writer Chetan Bhagat’s bestseller, ‘Five point Someone’ never lets you drift and keeps you enthralled right till the end.The casting is spot on. The ‘Rang de Basanti’ team of Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi excel with flying colours. Watch them in the scene where they banter with each other at Sharman Joshi’s house. Omi Vaidya as ‘Chatur’ is outstanding. His broken hindi delivered ‘balatkaar scene’ is a laughter riot. The film inspires you to challenge the status quo and re-invent the wheel.’Aal Izz definitely Well’ here and you would be an idiot to miss this one. –platform47. (more…)
By: preme | On: 30 Dec, 2009
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This 1962 special marked the last hurrah of Mr. Magoo, who starred in 43 cartoon shorts, including two Oscar® winners, from the UPA Studio between 1949 and 1959. Magoo appears as Scrooge in a Broadway production of “A Christmas Carol” in this minimally animated hour. The play-within-the-show features forgettable songs by Jules Styne and Bob Merrill: Tiny Tim (“played” by the animated character Gerald McBoing-Boing) sings, oddly, of “razzle berry dressing” and “woofle jelly cake.” This retelling of Dickens’s holiday standard is much tamer than Richard Williams’s Oscar-winning adaptation: the ghosts aren’t scary, nor does Magoo confront the specters of Ignorance and Want. Small children who might be frightened by more dramatic versions of the story will enjoy this mild program. And the self-satisfied chuckles and bromides Jim Backus gives Magoo in his lighter moments remain as delightful as ever. This film is suitable for ages 6 and older. –Charles Solomon
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By: preme | On: 27 Dec, 2009
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film FamilyRating: NRRelease Date: 1-NOV-2005Media Type: DVD
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By: preme | On: 23 Dec, 2009
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938) Reginald Owen portrays Charles Dickens’ holiday humbug Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser’s miser who has a huge change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future. From sets to stars to story, this triumphant adaptation adds a glow to the season. Like Tiny Tim’s benediction, it blesses us – every one. CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column had better get some fast: her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero to her home for Christmas. Laughs, romance, holiday cheer: that’s the recipe Barbara Stanwyck and a stellar company follow in this perennial favorite. IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE Home for the holidays! GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned New York City mansion. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER In the third of their four screen pairings, Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart engage in re (more…)
By: preme | On: 22 Dec, 2009
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Christmas in Connecticut is a holiday film that plays 365 days of the year. Barbara Stanwyck gives a brilliant, sardonic performance as Elizabeth Lane, a columnist for Smart Housekeeping magazine, whose enticing descriptions of the exquisite meals she prepares for her husband and baby on their bucolic Connecticut farm earns her fame as “America’s Best Cook.” A writer, she is; a cook, she is not. As she types the words, “From my living room window, as I write, the good cedar logs cracking on the fire…” the view is of clothes flapping on the line outside her bachelorette Manhattan apartment. An able supporting cast keeps her lie on life support: her editor, her stuffy and detestable architect suitor, and the wonderful “Uncle” Felix (S.Z. Sakall), an English-garbling Hungarian chef who provides the recipes that fill her column. Cut to Jefferson Jones, a sailor adrift at sea for weeks after his destroyer is torpedoed. Memories of the food desc (more…)