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These pretzels are making me thirsty: Not a Review - Mad Max Fury Road
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. Monday, May 18, 2015. Not a Review - Mad Max Fury Road. A desolate man stands with a heavy bag atop a sand dune, looking at the vastness of the desert sprawled in front of him. The sky is swathed with the heat of a thousand suns. He’s thirsty, his canteen is almost empty. ‘My name is George Miller’, the man’s husky voice reverberates, ‘I trawl this desert named Hollywood’. And Mad Max The Road Warrior. He loathes himself, and ever since the box office of Happy Feet 2.
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These pretzels are making me thirsty: Thoughts on Margarita with a Straw
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. Monday, May 18, 2015. Thoughts on Margarita with a Straw. Most times, it’s a case of a ham-fisted endeavor to extract sympathy from audiences. There’s either a blaring song to wrench your guts or sobbing faces breaking the fourth wall. Even the good films fall into this trapdoor. Take for example Taare Zameen Par. As good as it was, it had both of those aforementioned elements. Can you imagine the film without the ‘Maa’ song? Laila, a college girl has cerebral palsy ...
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These pretzels are making me thirsty: February 2014
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. Friday, February 28, 2014. Movie Review: Shaadi Ke Side Effects. Every once in a while there comes a film that is mostly clichéd and utterly predictable, and is yet difficult to hate because its leads are so darn likable. Shaadi Ke Side Effects. Is one such film. Starring Farhan Akhtar and Vidya Balan as a young married couple dealing with the arrival of a new member in the family, Shaadi Ke Side Effects. Sure, there are a few things in the film that paint marriage i...
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These pretzels are making me thirsty: Movie Review: Piku
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. Monday, May 18, 2015. Having already watched and being disappointed by Finding Fanny. Last year, the thought of seeing another modestly budgeted Deepika Padukone quirky road trip comedy didn’t inspire much confidence. It’s rare for expectations to be smashed to smithereens and even rarer for a Bollywood film to do this with so much confidence. Shoojit Sircar’s Piku. There’s a lot going on in Piku. Is it noble to consider moving out of the house and giving your invali...
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These pretzels are making me thirsty: Movie Review: Upstream Color
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. Saturday, May 18, 2013. Movie Review: Upstream Color. Back in 2004, a young man named Shane Carruth created Primer,. A groundbreaking science fiction film that dealt with a storage unit and time travel. Carruth is back, with a sci fi story that is even more complex, engrossing, innovative and thought provoking than his previous effort. And just like his first film, Upstream Color. Crushes the mainstream competition from Hollywood. Most importantly, Carruth doesn̵...
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These pretzels are making me thirsty: Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. Monday, May 18, 2015. Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron. A lot of things changed when the original Avengers. Hit theaters in 2012. Marvel’s ambitious plan of slowly building a ‘cinematic universe’ actually worked. Clubbed together, the mediocre Iron Man 2. And the Captain America. After the post Avengers. Films and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Titled Age of Ultron. The thing with Age of Ultron. Regardless of the Man of Steel. The lack of Ultron’s motivation is ma...
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These pretzels are making me thirsty: December 2014
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. Friday, December 12, 2014. Review: Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Two years ago the first Hobbit. Is the best of the three prequels, but that’s not saying much. And it probably feels like a better film mostly because the expectations from this movie were very low. Gaffes aside, The Battle of the Five Armies. Is a harmless action movie. It’s fun in a few places and does a lot of fan service for those who’ve read the books. It’s just f...The only way this scena...
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These pretzels are making me thirsty: June 2014
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. Friday, June 27, 2014. Movie Review: Transformers Age of Extinction. If you thought Michael Bay has lost his touch, fear not, because Transformers: Age of Extinction. Has all the elements that made the first three films memorable. And I’m not talking of just the misogyny, racism or the blonde butt shots. I’m talking of literally every single plot element. The story of Transformers 1. The story of Transformers 2. The story of Transformers 3. An American kid struggles ...
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These pretzels are making me thirsty: Movie Review: Bombay Velvet
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. Monday, May 18, 2015. Movie Review: Bombay Velvet. Few films have the ability to get your attention right from the opening shot. In Bombay Velvet. Anurag Kashyap, jumping from ‘sort of mid budget indie’ to full on mainstream mode does this exceptionally well. As the opening credits roll a nostalgic surprise from the 90’s greets you to the backdrop of Amit Trivedi’s Jazz, and the world of Bombay Velvet. In the second half of Bombay Velvet. Hat wink, and neither of the...