vc on May 4th, 2009

Often we complain, after being subject to torture like Sagar alias Jackie and Love  in Singapore, that why don’t we make some decent movies? Apparently we do still make decent movies. At least 10 Malayalis can vouch that Bhoomi Malayalam is watchable.

Bhoomi Malayalam is good, fast, at times a little too ‘painkili’ emotional(that would be [...]

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vc on May 12th, 2008

When you associate Srinivasan with a movie, you know at best, it would be a watchable one. Debutant scriptwriter- director Leo Thadeus has done to Srinivasan what Ranjan Pramod did to Mohanlal in Photographer.
Ram writes
The problem with Pachamarathanalil is its script- there is no cohesiveness to it and it meanders aimlessly between characters. The [...]

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vc on November 15th, 2007

Only fools analyze movies like Immini Nalloral and Pulival Kalyanam. Some others dump the story and write a few lines, “actor x did well, camera was good, costumes were good etc.” Real reviewers don’t write pages of story, but offer some sort of analysis which enhances the knowledge of the reader. The worst ones are [...]

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Movie Mazaa on November 3rd, 2007

(Cross-posted at Movie Mazaa)
Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s tribute to Thakazhy Shivasankara Pillai – Naalu Pennungal (Four Women) – chronicles a journey of womanhood across assorted backdrops; a classic amalgamation of source matter and technique that splendidly spans frames and times.
Of the four disjoined narrations The Prostitute is by far the best; Kunju Pennu, the street hustler (Padmapriya) [...]

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vc on August 3rd, 2007

The heroines who had migrated to warmer climates are coming back home for the monsoon season. Navya Nair has two upcoming movies, Ali Bhai and Kichamani MBA. In both the movies she is not the lone heroines and she seems to have no problems with that. Meera Jasmine, after going all way till Hyderabad will [...]

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vc on May 24th, 2007

 
Average, Watchable, time pass etc are some of the words used by the reviewers to describe Shaji Kailas-Suresh Gopi’s latest offering.  Beating the same theme again and again, this duo’s movies are becoming indistinguishable from one another.  And Suresh Gopi must be on his way to Guinness Book for doing most number of cop roles.
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vc on May 16th, 2007

 
Writing preview for a Shaji Kailas -Suresh Gopi movie is a very easy task. We can check our archives and copy paste from earlier previews and no one will note the difference. But to give our readers value for money we thought that we will do something different this time.We’ll try to find if Time [...]

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