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  • A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet

    A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet

    What better day than today to write about something that has been one of my long time loves, Movies! With the Oscar on the screen I can’t stop remembering all the great movies that I have seen all these years. Which would be the best movie for me, thare are many, but if you were to ask me to name 5 without thinking here goes my list The Big Kahuna Schindler’s List Memento Machinist Scent of the woman Why has [...]

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  • Sholay – An Indian Movie Pride

    Sholay – An Indian Movie Pride

    Sholay is one of the greatest Bollywood movies of all time. Though inspired by Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai; Sholay brings to screen a similar theme with all the bollywood ingredients including songs, dance and action. Sholay brought to Bollywood a totally new genre of action, what Magnificent Seven had bought to Hollywood. A set of very capable but misfits and outlaws uniting to fight a greater evil and in the event embracing heroism and Martyrdom. Sholay also brought to the Indian [...]

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  • Secret Ballot (Raye makhfi)

    Secret Ballot (Raye makhfi)

    Movie needs a variety, I believe that the fact of being stereo typed is not just for actors or directors or script writers, we as avid viewers also should not be stereo typed in what we pick to see. Be it the theme or language, so today’s treat for your eyes is the Farsi movie by the Iranian/Canadian director Babak Payami, Secret Ballot (Raye makhfi) Released in 2001 Secret Ballot tells a day in the life of a young female [...]

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  • The Big Kahuna

    The Big Kahuna

    Sometime you go to the store searching for a movie you want to watch and end up taking something just because you like the actor, or you like the plot or just because you felt so for any unimportant reason. Unaware of how long the interest is going to hold on, you get home, switch on the TV put in your DVD or VHS and start watching and then as you progress in the movie a kind of WOW feeling [...]

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