September2013

  • Outsourced

    Understandably, the Americans haven’t always been too pleased with the idea of having their valuable jobs being outsourced to India. But, like Todd (Josh Hamilton) in Outsourced, there was hardly much that they could do about it. Sent to India to train local call center executives, he is greeted...
  • Surrogates

    When people are ashamed or afraid of facing reality, they are known to create fake avatars and live a plastic, introverted life. In Surrogates, everyone sits at home the whole day and sends good-looking versions of themselves as remote-controlled androids out into the world. The concept based on a...
  • Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus (God’s Own Cleetus)

    Sins of the past can be washed off with a heavenly character and a good story. Painfully, though, Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus (God’s Own Cleetus) is crucified through bad execution. A priest discovers Cleetus (Mammootty) in a pious pose, and tempts him with a sufficient amount of cash to play...
  • Up in the Air

    Pink slips have a devastating effect, more so because it cuts people off from something to which they feel closely associated. In Up in the Air, Ryan (George Clooney) is a corporate downsizer who flies around the US firing senior employees of various companies, and conducts lectures on the...
  • Dan in Real Life

    Happiness is a virtue that wholly belongs to them who genuinely love and understand and are good, to themselves and to everyone around them. If you don’t deserve it, you can only fake it and fool people for a while, like the protagonist in Dan in Real Life who...
  • Code Name: The Cleaner

    Some people just may not be who we think they are. In Code Name: The Cleaner, someone whom many recognize as a toiler cleaner believes that he’s an undercover agent who’s been assigned the task of cleaning up more important things. The opening is nice. A fat, funny man...
  • Milk

    Way back in the 1970s, homosexuals marched down the streets of conservative San Francisco, and shortly afterwards, created history when their leader, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), became the first openly gay person to be elected to political office in the US. Milk is a factual account of the defining...
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    Icon worshiping can be a dangerous obsession. If you ever get to know your idol on a personal level like the insecure antagonist in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, you’d realize that they are very different from the storybook character that you grew up...
  • You don’t Mess with the Zohan

    What is the point in warring all the time? Why can’t we all just live in peace? Israel’s deadliest counter-terrorism commando, Zohan (Adam Sandler) asks, in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. You can see he’s had more than enough of this degenerate enmity that isn’t doing anyone any...