X-Men : Days of Future Past

Rating : 7/10Release Date : 23rd May, 2014 Time : 131 minutesDirector : Bryan Singer; Writers : Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn; Music : John OttmanStarring : Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, Shawn Ashmore, Omar Sy, Evan Peters, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen This one has it all…great set-piece action sequences, super visuals, enough logic to keep you engaged and some good one-liners for that all too important dose of humour to prevent things from getting too dark or heavyIn a bleak, dark future, humans have created Sentients…machines wh

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Kochadaiiyaan

Rating : 5/10Release Date : 23rd May, 2014 Time : 110 minutesDirector : Soundarya Rajnikanth Ashwin; Writers : K.S. Ravikumar; Music : A R RahmanStarring : Rajinikanth, Deepika Padukone, Jackie Shroff, Sarath Kumar, Nasser, Shobana, RukminiThe miracle of this film is that it makes its 110 minute length seem like over three hours…a weak story line, songs for every occasion, weakly etched, uni-dimensional characters and above all, animation that is very good only in minute parts and highly caricature-ish in most others makes for a movie that is barely watchable...if I didnt know better, would say they ran out of money & time to make it as it should

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Godzilla

Rating : 4/10Release Date : 16th May, 2014 Time : 123 minutesDirector : Gareth Edwards; Writers : Dave Callaham; Music : Alexandre DesplatStarring : Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, Carson Bolde, Sally Hawkins, Juliette Binoche, David StrathairnAlternate, more apt titles I can think of would be…Godzilla vs MUTOsAndheri raat mein… kuch kuch hota hai…The Alpha PredatorThe SaviourNuclear Trigger-Happy HumansIt all happens in the dark. You identify with none of the human characters, who all come across either boring, wooden or psychotic. There is shock & awe level of destruction in several cities around the Pacific

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Mastram

Rating : 6/10Release Date : 9th May, 2014 Time : 121 minutesDirector : Akhilesh Jaiswal; Writers : Akhilesh Jaiswal, Gunjan Saxena; Music : Yo Yo Honey Singh & OthersStarring : Rahul Bagga, Tara Alisha, Akash Dahiya, Istiyak Khan, Vinod Nahardih, SagarA sweet portrayal, if something like this was possible, of one of the premier, most prolific writers of Hindi porn in the good old daysParticularly endearing is the author, Rahul, struggling through his bank job, desiring to be a writer, aspiring to write lofty novels and poems…and eventually getting suckered into writing porn by his publishers…Even his porn, inspired by little things / incidents he

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Million Dollar Arm

Rating : 6/10Release Date : 9th May, 2014 Time : 121 minutesDirector : Craig Gillespie; Writers : Thomas McCarthy; Music : A R RahmanStarring : Jon Hamm, Pitobash, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal, Aasif Mandvi, Darshan Jariwala, Lake Bell, Alan Arkin, Bill Paxton, Gregory Alan Williams, Tzi MaFeel good, fun film, very predictable but still manages to hold attention thanks to its Indian flavor and the self-discovery some of the characters go through, particularly Jon Hamm.Jon is a sports agent down to his last throw of dice when he convinces a Chinese entrepreneur (Tzi Ma) to fund a search for new baseball pitcher from India’s vast pool of cricket bowlers

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The Amazing Spiderman 2

Rating : 8/10Release Date : 1st May, 2014 Time : 142 minutesDirector : Marc Webb; Writers :Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner, James Vanderbilt based on the Marvel comic by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; Music : Johnny Marr, Pharrell Williams, Hans ZimmerStarring : Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Sally Field, Felicity Jones, Colm Feore, Campbell Scott, Marton CsokasOh ! What a delicious tangled web they weave…Andrew Garfield wants to know what happened to his parents.Dane DeHaan, the younger Osborn, has just been handed an unwanted legacy by his father.Emma Stone just wants a peaceful life with her boyfriend but her father’s p

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