Vicky (Qi Shu) is constantly at odds with her boyfriend Hao-Hao (Chun-hao Tuan) and always breaking up with him. She finds herself using mysterious Jack (Jack Kao) with a shady past, as an anchor in her turbulent life. Like all of Hsiao-hsien Hou films this one too looks at human emotion and passion with dispassionate lenses.
Naomi Watts enters the brutal world of the Russian mafia voluntarily. Unknowingly, rather. But the inevitable approaches her as she discovers more than she has to - but there is a small issue of Viggo Mortensen to be sorted out though. Hopeless, pointless thriller - yet another disappointment from the guy who made A History of Violence. Good to see Naomi Watts again though.
An old man (Ng Sway Ah) grieving the death of his wife, finds loneliness weighing him down. It slowly dissipates when he starts to cook for a deaf and blind woman (Theresa Poh Lin Chan) whose story inspires him.
One of the many nondescript Nicolas Cage movies lying in some corner. Plays a private detective who is hired to find the origins of a "snuff" movie found in a very expensive vault. The rest of the movie takes you from porn shops to porn shoots and utlimately to the truth. An ordinary story, but tightly made.
The film opens with Ji-hae (Ye-jin Son) stumbling across her mother's old lover letters. As she loses herself in her mother's past, she finds the present mirroring it. Ji-hae finds herself helplessly attracted to her friend's boyfriend Sang-min (In-seong Jo). Her mother's first love was also in a similar predicament involving his best friend. The director, Jae-young Kwak, effortlessly flits between the past and present in this typical melodramatic South Korean love story. If only he had the good sense to end it sooner it would have ended up being a cut above the rest.
Robert Redford is a surprising choice for the Democrats to supplant the Californian Republican governor. It all begins as an honest campaign directed at bringing about change from the usual politics, Bill Mckay starts to convince people that he is for real. As the race lengthens, and his chances of winning increases, Mckay begins to question where its all heading. I suppose, political stories are quite enduring considering its essentially about people, power etc - and thereby there are many resemblances to the current presidential race. Nicely made movie, with Robert Redford setting up a performance that I think inspired Bill Clinton and his style! ahem
Amongst the finest pieces of story telling that I have seen. Dont know why the phrase "cleanly made" comes to mind when thinking of how to describe a good part of the movie. 
Much like her recent movies, Jodie Foster decides that she has to take the law in her hands - and is portrayed, with no subtlety, as being justified considering her grievances with life. A long winded action movie that unceremoniously ends in a pool of sentimentality.
Venu Nagavalli's brilliant film that follows the birth and rise of communism in Kerala through the eyes of three party workers. Ushering the delivery of the political ideology are comrades Netturan (Mohanlal), DK (Murali) and Sethu (Geetha). Rather than focusing entirely on the political ideology, Nagavalli brings to the forefront the reality of politics in a politician's life. A trip down the vintage Malayalam movie lane that leaves you wondering where the Mohanlal of yesteryear disappeared...
Young hardworking Philippe (Benoît Magimel) is smitten by Flora, a stone head of the Greek goddess. When he sees the goddess's looks reflected in his sister's bridesmaid, Senta (Laura Smet), he is smitten and so is she. Sparks fly of a psychotic nature and Philippe's world changes overnight. But for the viewer it translates into an insipid thriller.
Lush photography, beautiful scenery, understated acting, flowing music: is what comes to mind after watching this movie. But I didnt get the connection between the 4 sub-chapters thats spread across some 5 characters and over 3 different locations. There is a profound linkage I believe, and would be an interesting one, if one is arsed to find it.
Been a while since one has seen Benecio del Toro in action. The movie opens with the killing of a good husband/father and Halle Berry (the wife) is left to deal with the absence. She relucatantly approaches the junkie friend of her husbands - played by del Toro - for help, by volunteering to help him. So its all "how I can help you, but you cant help me, because I cant cry, I cant feel, I cant smile; but please help us" kind of thing from thereon. Interestingly, Halle Berry doesnt smile in the movie - while its del Toro that carries the movie and his friend's family forward. Quite a well made film, but it appears to be tied to a leash of some sort.
(Emily Rios) is about to turn 15 and is revving up for her quinceañera. But things take a turn for the worse when she magically finds herself to be pregnant much to the chagrin of her pastor dad. She leaves home and moves in with her great uncle (Jesus Castanos) and gay cousin (Jesse Garcia). This unforeseen circumstance exposes her to chapters in life she otherwise would not have seen. A very simple coming of age tale that made me think again about the originality of Juno. But then again one should not comment on a film unseen.
A Madhur Bhandarkar film that tries to bring the world of corporate politics to the common man. It centers around the tug of war between two companies in the food industry with Nishi (Bipasha Basu) as the central character who uses every trick in the book to help her corporation. But finally karma catches up with her...
When Eva (Leni Tanzer) feigns blindness at school, her parents slowly come to realize that they are leading a futile and meaninglessness existence. Michael Haneke's meditative film loosely based on a true story looks at the monotonous life of a family that decides to break out of the funk and take matters into their own hands.
This is the inspiration for one of the many sub-plots of this movie - the one with a young ambitious executive letting out his apartment to senior managers in his organisation for their carnal pleasures. Jack Lemmon in his usual effervescent manner bumbles his way through the movie, while a young Shirley Maclaine appears as a stunningly beautiful lift operator. Showcases all of the complexities of life in a big city today. A reasonable watch. 
A poignant movie that captures the growing up pains of a young man ("the child"). His young girl friend gives birth to a baby and the hero decides to give up the child to move on. Seems a normal day until his girl friend throws him out of the house and reality checks in. But its going to take some doing to get back. 
About the flight that never got to its destination of intended destruction. A well made movie that captures, without any established stars, all that went on that morning. Had heard good things from the others who had watched the movie - and must say its a honest piece of film making from Paul Greengrass - maker of the final two Bourne installments.
