Shrek 2 carries forward the fairytale-with-a-twist idea which was first introduced in the original Shrek movie. Ok they are just trying to cash in on the success of the original, but if you liked the first movie for Shrek and his bride, you'll like this movie for the Puss in Boots - Antonio Banderas lends voice to the funny feline character in this sequel where Shrek and princess Fiona visit their royal inlaws.(Seems like it is inlaw season in Hollywood, with Fockers and Shrek2 and all that)
Jack Black is the soul of rock in this movie, he's such a natural at comedy. As a rocker chucked out of his band by his team mates and looking for work, Black lands the job(by deceit, ofcourse) as a substitute teacher at a prep school. The soundtrack of the movie could be a great preparatory lesson in rock. The movie is clean entertainment and Jack Black will give you your money's worth.
Kaazcha is supposedly one of the best Malayalam films that has come out in recent past. If this is the best, I am saddened by the state of the Malayalam movie industry. Kaazcha is directed by the newcomer, Blessy, who had served as assistant director to prominent Malayalam directors. 
What is Page 3? In a newspaper, thats where the celebrities, their parties, their gossips and their photos hang out and the first step towards celebrity-dom is to make sure your head shows up in some corner in some photo on Page 3.
Touching The Void is more of a documentary than a feature film, it charters the climb of Siula Grande in Peru(unconquered at the time) by two young mountaineers from Britian, Simon Yates and Joe Simpson. 
Troy is a good film as far as period films go, the only defect that stands out is that Achilles, the hero of the movie, played by Brad Pitt is a stereotypical contemporary American hero - arrogant, devil may care attitude and Pitt's portrayal of the character with door faced expression only made the matters worse. 
This is the first full length feature film of Charlie Chaplin's, I saw after a decade or so. Reminded me what a great performer Mr.Chaplin was. Performer is the right word, not an actor. He was a mime/circus performer/clown/entertainer all roled in to one.
Seems like Bollywood's current fancy is murder mysteries. Vaada starring Arjun Rampal, Zayyed Khan and Amisha Patel is another formulaic thriller. Acting, especially Zayyed Khan's is below par. The usual song and dance routines and the masala, just another Bollywood flick.
This is one of those rare movies where the sequel is better than the original. Bridget Jones diary was trying to give Ms.Jones a foothold in movie history, once the job was accomplished it goes all out hilarious with The Edge of Reason.
From Pooja Bhatt productions, a Bollywood murder mystery starring Irrfan Khan and a south african model, Ilene Hamann. I thought Rog had a sense of style, a kind of technical perfection unseen in Hindi movies - editing, camera and a less cliched script. The first half was sauve, although in the second half it falls in to trite situations. Suhel Seth and Shyamoli Verma are over the top whereas Ilene falls short in her acting. In the end it is Irrfan who saves the day and MM Kreem's soothing music.
A silly brainless movie which tries to capitalize on the fashion trends of the seventies. It tries to make fun of its main character, Ron Burgundy, the anchorman, but ends up being a torture in the process. I sometimes do not understand Hollywood comedy. The only scene I liked in the movie was when Jack Black appeared, drop kicked Burgundy's dog over a bridge and vanished. I was hoping he'd stay and save the film. Alas!
It'd have been one of the perfect Hindi films to come out of Bollwood in the last few years, had it been an original. For now, it'd have to satisy with the honor of being one of the best alternative remakes of The Reservoir Dogs. 
This is Gurinder Chadha doing the Monsoon Wedding thing - but Bride and Prejudice lacks the earthiness of Meera Nair's Monsoon Wedding. Adapted for Indian conditions, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, this Gurinder Chadha movie follows the lives of four sisters(2 in particular) who are from the city of Amritsar in Punjab. 
The exotic adventure of an American in the East. This is one of those films which contribute an lions's share to the common man's(in the West) idea of how the East, its people and its culture is like. It does a very "good job" of it, diverting the viewer farthest from the ground realities. 
I am not a big fan of Michael Douglas, but in Wonder Boys, as the professor/novelist he is delightful. So is Tobey MacGuire who plays his eccentric student and Robert Downey Jr who plays his agent. It is a tepid comedy akin to chicken soup you can have one of those afternoons when you curl up on the sofa with a bowl and have a go at.
As expected of Matt Stone and Trey Parker(the South Parks dudes who did their schooling at Columbine High), Team America is a riot from start to finish. Although I felt that caustic South Park humor has been diluted a bit in the film, it is kind of accurate in its portrayal of Team America. The rest, if you ask me, has been skewed to suit the humor and the perspective of its creators.
This is one movie you shouldn't watch if you still believe in the concept of parenthood or simply put, if you believe in the goodness of your child(children). The age, is thirteen, the location is the extremely competitive world of junior high, the subjects are two girls - one is a wannabe and another one is the queen bee(of the school, ofcourse). 
There were glowing tributes proclaiming it to be "one good love-story atlast" and comments in the similar vein. Feels like I have become too old for love stories, it was ok without hearing the cliched love talk, but when all is said and done, it is just another love story(atleast to me). Baah.
John Travolta and Jouquin Phoenix are two of my favorite actors, who portray firefighters in Baltimore Fire Dept, in this movie. I think this is a long overdue film that is in a way dedicated to the firefighters who perished trying to save lives during 9/11 disaster.
Roman Polanski's Oscar winning directorial presentation about the real life story of a Jewish pianist in Warsaw who escaped the holocaust. Every other Jewish holocaust movie I watch turns my opinion in favor of Israel despite their descipable human rights record in West Bank and Gaza - man, these people were tortured worse than hell, it is a wonder that some of them escaped alive, as the Polish Jewish pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman played by Adrien Brody did.This film made Brody the youngest ever to receive the Best Actor Oscar.
Had read this novel by Tracy Chevalier some time back. It is filled with paintable scenes, but found it a bit too dragging for my patience.
This one is for all the metal fans and it is a good documentary even if you are not a big fan of heavy metal, as I found out. The documentary charters the course of one of the greatest metal bands in all history, Metallica, during a tumultous period from early 2001 to 2003. It is a behind the scenes look at the band, which at the time seemed to be coming apart at the seams because of interpersonal conflicts between the band members and also under the pressure to produce a new album.
Another one of those movies banking on Dileep, but a refreshing story although it falls in to a cliched story line towards the end. Navya Nair plays Dileep's wife who gets a government job at Trivandrum and the jobless husband(Dileep) is forced to tag along with her. Most of the movie is concentrated around Dileep's tricks and antics to make Navya leave her job and return to their village. It is a timepass comedy which holds together somewhat till the end.
The Fog of War : Eleven Lessons from the life of Robert McNamara, the former US Secretary of Defense during the early part of Vietnam war, under President Lyndon Johnson. It is insightful to know what super powers think when they start wars in foreign soils, what the head honchos had in their heads when they went on a murderous mistake as Vietnam. McNamara is good, a good politician and a better strategist. Although not contraversially attractive as F 9/11, because Vietnam war is a long forgotten botch-up, there have been many more interesting ones since, the Fog of War is a serious documentary, explains a lot about the reason for wars in our time, from the mouth of one of the main men himself.
An epic Swedish family story seen through the eyes two siblings - Fanny & Alexander, from Ingmar Bergman. The film starts off slow, set on a Christmas Eve, gets entertaining as it progresses. I'd not call this Bergman's best among what I have seen of his, though this film did win four Oscars including the Best Foreign Language Film(1983).
If this was a Hindi movie, they could have quashed the Vols 1 & 2 in to a single movie 3 to 3.5 hours long, but Hollywood is more intelligent. It makes you pay twice for what you should not even have paid once and thus the two volumes. Kill Bills are definitely not Tarantino's best, as far as I am concerned, and the volume 2 is worse that vol 1. Well, the bride is happy, Tarantino is happy, lots of viewers are happy to have Killed Bill, I wish we had some more of that pulp fiction.
In America, the film by Jim Sheridan did create a lot of Oscar flutter. It reminds me of the emotional, goody goody Malayalam movies, where the successful run of the movie depends on how much tears the director is able to jerk out of the audience and in the end everything ends with a happy family union. 
An edgy grainy thriller with Jamie Foxx as the cabbie and Tom Cruise as his passenger with some dangerous plans. It has a different role for Cruise, but it is Foxx who outshines him with his acting. Its not the usual Hollywood thriller, good for a night"in" with friends.
It is a bit confusing, a bit slow for all the suspense it has and follows the French filmdom's rule of not ending happily - the end is always a compromise, not too sad but not a fairytale ending either.
I can forgive Tarantino(not that it matters) for Kill Bill series just because he made Pulp Fiction. The movie is a classic, one of the all time greatest movies to come out of Hollywood ever - the man certainly deserves some respect. John Travolta and Samuel.L.Jackson are amazing in their roles, truly deserve the boost the film gave to their careers later on. But the coup de grace of this film is its dialog - a dream come true of a script writer. 
A love story set in the background of civil war. The coup de grace of the movie is not exactly the lovers - played by Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, but Rene Zellweiger who plays a supporting character named Ruby.
"They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death. Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams?" - the final thoughts of Paul Rivers played by Sean Penn in the film 21 Grams. And I had thought 21 Grams was a movie about drugs! Well, it is not. 
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