San Andreas

Rating : 6/10Release Date : 29th May, 2015Time : 114 minutesDirector : Brad Peyton; Writer : Andre Fabrizio, Jeremy Passmore; Music : Andrew LockingtonStarring : Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino, Paul Giamatti, Archie Panjabi, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Art Parkinson, Ioan GruffuddWatch it for an adrenalin rush, super special effects, the reassuring presence of Dwayne Johnson and the lovely persona of Alexandra (of Percy Jackson fame).Don’t watch it if you like your films to be totally logical, things to make sense, be neatly tied up and you don’t like the main characters becoming almost super-heroes.Right from opening sequence its clear tha

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Welcome 2 Karachi

Rating : UnratedRelease Date : 29th May, 2015Time : Walked Out At Half-timeDirector : Ashish R Mohan; Writer : Vrajesh Hirjee; Music : VariousStarring : Arshad Warsi, Jackky Bhagnani, Dalip Tahil, Lauren GottliebThere is something that will make you laugh every fifteen minutes or so. But its bearing the intervening period – full of ludicrous plot situations, insanity and bad PJs that really takes its toll on you.Arshad Warsi is a disgraced Navy commander. Pilots a ship (yacht, really) for rich businessman Dalip Tahil, who rents it out for parties. Whose son, Jackky, has got to be about the most foolish, stoned out guys possible. Both Arshad and Jackky

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Review: TOMORROWLAND

NOTE: This review is brought to you in part by The MovieBob Patreon. If you like it and would like to see more, please consider becoming a Patron.Despite the fact that I believe "pure objectivity" in criticizing films, entertainment or anything else is impossible, largely useless as a pursuit and shouldn't be of primary import either to critics or people reading them; I do worry about times when my own biases might get in the way of things. Not because I might violate some nimrod's vision of "ethics" (whatever the hell that means anymore) but because I don't want to write anything I'll be embarrassed about a year or so later.So, if nothing e

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Here's Some Crazy Guessing About CIVIL WAR, HULK and RAGNAROK

NOTE: This piece brought to you in part by The MovieBob Patreon. If you liked it and want to see more, please consider becoming a Patron today :)Hey! Haven't done one of these in awhile, and now is as good a time as any. We're between Marvel Cinematic Universe movies right now, and while it's possible that ANT-MAN is going to drop some kind of important Universe-altering plot point, I wouldn't call it likely. Whatever really got between Edgar Wright and Marvel, everything about the production of this I've heard is that a big part of Marvel's solution to "what do we do with what pieces are already assembled from this movie?"  w

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In Bob We Trust: BLURRY ROAD

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"Chocolate with SPRINKLES!!!"

All the world is gasoline, and Eli Roth is the guy who just can't stop flicking his cigarettes...So it's FUNNY GAMES if FUNNY GAMES wasn't pretentious self-fellating bullshit - color me onboard.The hook this time is that Roth is (supposedly) dialing back on the gore in favor psychological torment, which I don't think the radical prospect it'll likely be treated as by mainstream critics: Roth's secret has never been his willingness to spill blood, but his willingness to spill it in defiance of audiences' expectations of narrative "rightness." The notorious blood-bathing sequence in HOSTEL II isn't just horrifying because of what's happening, but becaus

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Tanu Weds Manu Returns

Rating : 7/10Release Date : 22nd May, 2015Time : 120 minutesDirector : Anand L Rai; Writer : Himanshu Sharma; Music : Krsna, Tanishk-VayuStarring : Kangana Ranaut, R Madhavan, Deepak Dobriyal, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Jimmy Shergill, K K Raina, Rajesh Sharma, Swara Bhaskar, Eijaz Khan, Dipti Mishra, Rajendra Gupta, Navni Parihar"Bas karo yeh havas ka nanga naach !"A crackling first half deteriorates quite badly midway through the second…becoming unnecessarily maudlin, sentimental, and ruins the overall message of the film…There is still much to admire in the film, though, especially the situations woven (incl the tantalizing intermission point) and the

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Pitch Me, Mr. B: CAPTAIN PLANET

NOTE: This piece and others like it brought to you in part by The MovieBob Patreon. Want to see more? Please consider becoming a patron.Really, guys?Okay, you're in charge. I just really didn't expect this to be the second most-request thing to see written up. But, okay. Here's how I'd pitch a hypothetical re-invention of CAPTAIN PLANET to a movie studio.To be fair, this one presents a different challenge from MEGA MAN: Instead of trying to stretch a plot out of a fairly simple (storywise) set of video games, the goal here is not simply to turn a superhero cartoon into a feature film but to "retool" the mythos of the franchise itself from the gro

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It's Fun To Dream

What can I say - sometimes I just can't let a good pun go to waste.

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Review: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (VIDEO)

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REVIEW: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

For the first time in a long time, I feel like I’ve been derelict in my duties as a Generation X film geek. Oh sure, me and my kind have done a fine job making sure that STAR WARS, RAIDERS, GOONIES, EVIL DEAD, RAMBO the collective John Carpenter and even fucking TRON remained at the ubiquitous forefront of pop-culture to such a degree that our Millennial ascendants couldn’t have avoided absorbing their supposed import if they wanted to… but I now realize we kinda forgot to tell you how great the MAD MAX movies were. Which means a lot of my audience probably only knows legendary Australian filmmaker George Miller as the guy behind… eh, well, a string a

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Bombay Velvet

Rating : 3/10Release Date : 15th May, 2015Time : 151 minutesDirector, Writer : Anurag Kashyap; Co-Writers : Vasan Bala, Gyan Prakash Thani; Music : Amit TrivediStarring : Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Karan Johar, Siddharth Basu, Manish Chaudhary, Satyadeep Misra, Kay Kay Menon, Vivaan Shah, Denzil SmithRecipe for Bombay Velvet, a nouveau-riche cocktail…➢ Take assorted good-looking characters – Ranbir, Anushka, Kay Kay, Manish Chaudhary - and do your best to make them unrecognizable➢ Add oodles of inspiration from every famous American gangster movie & a few film noir classics – Scarface, Once Upon A Time in America, Chinatown – leave nothing ou

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