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What ought to have been one of the most memorable nights in one’s life can, as Donna (Brittany Snow) finds out, unexpectedly turn out to be the most horrific. In ‘Prom Night’, a psychopath killer, Richard (Jonathan Schaech), who is obsessed with her, breaks out of jail and comes...
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Life as a Hollywood film producer is not a bed of beautiful women, champagne, and cocktail parties. There is another side to it. What Just Happened offers an insider’s view of the crap that Ben (Robert De Niro), a leading producer, takes in his stride at a time when...
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Some things make sense, a lot others simply don’t. And often there is no telling which, what, why, or how. In Burn After Reading, two ordinary citizens find what they believe is sensitive documents, but which looks to the ordinary eye like simple financial data. They try to sell...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...