Friday, September 23, 2011

Moneyball

Brad Pitt stars as Billy Bean a baseball coach of a Major League Baseball lowest salaried team. He becomes the coach after losing as a MLB player. Hence, his fear of losing in the baseball games. However, his number crunching friend Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) convinces him that he should hire based on key performance statistics that pointed to undervalued players. They manage to get a team and trained to become one of the biggest challenges in the MBL.
This show is not the conventional baseball sports show but more on strategy building and the fast and terse dialogue between the actors make it very gripping. Based on a true story, this is another motivational show for you.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Johnny English

The spy who made me laugh is back. This time he must redeem himself for the failure he made in his previous assignment. He had been honing his skills in Tibet when has been reassigned to MI-7 at her majesty's service. A group of assassins are out to kill the Chinese premier and Johnny English will employ some sophisticated gadgets to thwart the efforts. Mr English, I believe in you!
Those of you who are Mr Bean's fans will see some similarity of his antiques with the comedy show.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

The Smurfs

The blue little creatures are back! This time they are running around in New York. Clumsy Smurf was getting an ingredient for Papa Smurf's magic potion when he fell into a magical portal called the Cave of Wonders. He became friends with a family who earlier mistook him for a toy.
Back in Smurf Village, everyone looked for Clumsy Smurf and came up with a plan. At the same time, Smurfs' evil enemy Gargamel is lurking around the corner with the blue creatures in his mind.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Final Destination 5

A group of workers were on their way to a teambuilding trip on a bus when one of them had a premonition that some of them will die on a bridge. When he snapped out from his dream, he dragged his girlfriend and a few other people followed after his warning. Sure enough the bridge broke and many co-workers died except for those who managed to escape following the warning. Then one by one of the survivors met Death in their own gory terms. An eyeball rolled out, a head flew and one died under the Buddha statue. Watch the preview before your watch it for real.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows : Part 2

As it says " IT ALL ENDS HERE". This is the last of the Harry Potter movie series. And in this show, you can see lots of wands waved and magic spells cast. There are poignant moments as the whole School of Witchcraft and Wizardy defends the attack by Lord Voldermort and his cloaked Dementors. It is here too where Harry Potter has to battle individually with Lord Voldermort. The fight scene is both exhilarating and fierce. Harry Potter makes the ultimate sacrifice as he finds out he is the only one who can kill the Dark Lord. Is that the end of Harry Potter as a brilliant wizard?

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Pirates of the Carribbean : On Stranger Tides


Captain Jack Sparrow is now in London but heard someone is impersonating him to recruit members for his ship. He went in search of his impersonator and it turns out to be his old flame Angelica. He is then tricked into a ship captained by none other than Blackbeard. Blackbeard and Angelica think that Jack can guide them to the fountain of youth. So, off they go while back in England Captain Barbossa who has now made good with the English goes after them for the same elusive fountain. The Spaniard are not far behind.
The swashbuckling actions are back as well as some tragic romantic moments between one of the shipmates and a mermaid.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Burleques

The theme of the show is a small town girl whose real passion is to sing and entertain finds herself winning her way to perform in Burlesque.