Found: We'll Always Have Paris.
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A slow guide to wandering, dining, shopping and staying in Paris like a
local.
Black Swan (2010)
Like I said before, Such a Brilliant movie after Such a Long time. A Beautiful Screenplay, Exquisite Visuals and Brilliant Acting makes this One of the Best Movies of 2010. While Mila Kunis was the much needed Spark in the movie, Deliciously Dark at times, the movie really rested on the shoulders of Natalie Portman. She’s one Star Actress who deserves more recognition. From playing a fragile girl to a malicious woman, she plays it all with such ease. Frenchman Vincent Cassel was great as the manipulating dance director. Barbara Hershey too was perfect as Portman's mother. The ballet was elegant and the use of special effects apt and justified. This is also the kind of a thriller movie which pretentious people can enjoy too without terming it ‘bourgeois’, as every other thriller gets branded otherwise. While some questions do remain unanswered, it’s a must watch for every other reason!
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
A Brother and a Sister born to a Lesbian Couple by Artificial Insemination try to find out their Biological Father. As the father gets more and more involved with the family, the dynamics of the happy house gets more and more disturbed. I liked this movie, even though *someone* seemed to hate it. Gah. Anyway, Superb Acting, no Stereotyped Lesbian Couple and a non-Hollywoody Ending. Even though Julianne Moore is great in her role as the Lesbian Counterpart of a Stay-At-Home-Mom-Wanting-To-Do-Something-More, she seems a bit uncomfortable in the kissing scenes. It was a Pleasant Surprise though at seeing Mia Wasikowska from Alice
Ragini MMS (2011)
You take The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, with a sprinkling of REC plus a bit of amateurish sex-scenes and you get Ragini MMS! Simple as that! It’s not that the movie was bad, but it was of a genre that has been Done to Death now elsewhere, even though it’s the Pioneer of its kind in Hindi cinema. The actor, Rajkumar Yadav, seems to’ve taken a Pledge to do only that kind of roles where he’s the Lusty Grey Character who has to make a sex-tape of some overtly trusting girl. In LSD, he succeeds to make one, here, the Bhootni-who-wasn’t-a-Chudail’s interference prevents him. The Bhootni isn’t the good kind, though. She bangs Miss Ragini left, right and centre. Also, she’s the kind that the Thackeray family’d approve of; she speaks shuddh Marathi only. Not a must watch, this is though the Perfect Date Movie, as the makers claim. It has plenty of silent moments which’d allow our daters to do exactly that only which our cinema halls’re popular for! :P
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Okay, I’m 60 years too late to see this classic, but in my defence, I began existing only 19 years ago. Cutting back to the movie, Vivien Leigh plays Blanche DuBois, a woman Too Primly Dressed for every occasion and who is haunted since and by the Suicide of her husband. She comes to live with her sister Stella and her working-class husband Stanley Kowalski, played by nonetheless Marlon Brando. The fact that Blanche and Stanley can't stand eachother is made apparent in the beginning only. Blanche is obsessed with the fear of Growing Old and is delusional more than half the time. Reality and Imagination mixes frequently for her as she tries to hide her Mucky Past from all. And then something Wrong happens to her in the end. This is one Psycho-Thriller that I’d recommend to everyone. Leigh over-acts with too much Frilly Movements but this is a character which well requires the Over The Top Mannerism. Kim Hunter is perfect as the loving sister and so is Brandon
Ah, I have been mentioned.
I'll take bow =P