April 2009

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

When it’s an Adam Sandler production, you’ll know what to expect, right?
Yes, but not exactly.
After Hitch and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Kevin James now gets his own movie in which he co-wrote. And like what Sandler is so fond of doing, he too has his pals in his first starring endeavour.
At some [...]

Marley & Me

Following The Devil Wears Prada, director David Frankel together with his team created a close resemblance of the characters as described in the memoir of John Grogan, but also characters that would work on a big screen.

Marley was played by 22 dogs, including his puppy years and spanning over more than a decade’s transition. There [...]

Knowing

The ultimate movie experience is to enter into a cinema not knowing what the movie was all about and then get swept on a journey filled with thrills and spills and then leaving the cinema as if you just got sent back to Earth by a UFO.
This was what Knowing did to me.

Right from the [...]

Fast & Furious

The tagline reads, “New model, original parts”. If you search the fine prints, you might find, “Half the fun.”

This franchise was never about work. It was all about fun. Who doesn’t like cars? Boys like them, girls like them. And throw in hunky blokes and sexy chicks along with the slickest cars and hippest music, [...]

The International

The International comes at an opportune time when the world is in an economic crisis and banks all over are barely keeping afloat from the result of shady investments and risky hedge fund deals over the past years. Making banks the villain should be an easy sell at this time but apparently not so [...]