Sunday, March 1, 2015

Popcorn evenings

Theory of Everything - What a movie to start the Oscar season with! I said this last year for Silver Linings Playbook and I reiterate - Portraying emotions is the most difficult act. Eddie Redmayne has done a killer job with ample support from Felicity Jones....to top it all it shows us not just how strong a theoretical physicist Hawking is but also how strong a man he is.

The Imitation Game - a treat for all Cumberbitches (read: Benedict Cumberbatch fans), the narrative itself is captivating...another fantastic biopic on an eccentric professor who changed the course of World War II...with the underlining that normal people can't accomplish the fantastic!

American Sniper - if you take the politics, strategy and reason out of war it is just a mindless, abhorrent hell that nobody wants to be a part off. This film displays how much war affects a soldier, more so psychologically than physically, that he gets sucked into it with an over-zealous sense of duty and an insatiable addiction! Something which was portrayed in the movie Hurt Locker too. A sniping good watch.

Birdman - its very difficult to make a black comedy that ticks and this one is just that. Very well made with killah performances from Michael Keaton and Edward Norton.

Foxcatcher - story of a wrestler who tries to come out of the shadow of his popular wrestler brother and in the bargain falls for the 'money and fame' carrot dangled by a whimsical psycopath billionaire. If anybody thought Rosamund Pike and Jake Gyllenhaal psyched you out in Gone Girl and Nightcrawlers, then watch Steve Carrell in this wink emoticon bet u'll get shocked by the climax

Kingsman : the secret service - mix half a glass of James Bond and half a glass of Jason Bourne..shake well..add a generous pinch of humour. U get this movie...and what's a spy thriller without Brit humour in it supplemented by Samuel L Jackson's cocky presence....a real fun watch.

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