An Unknown, Goldmine…

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The response to my previous post was pretty awesome. So here is the follow-up post with all the great unknown movies as recommended by my friends :) The Road Home (Chinese movie) – Ashwin NanjappaBefore the Rain – Thaths My Cousin Vinny – anantj In which annie gives it those ones (Watch Online) – thenitknumbskulls … Read more

Whats the best movie that practically nobody else has ever heard of?

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When pramodbiligiri sent me this link, I was pretty thrilled with a new list of movies to watch. I decided to save a bookmark of the page on Del.icio.us and that bookmark got picked up by my Friends feed page. I received a couple of comments for the link and got thinking that maybe its … Read more

The Kid…

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The one thing that is common between my sister, my cousins and me is that we all joined school a year earlier than most children. In India (atleast in the mid 80s) children joined school when they were three years old, so frankly I have no idea why my parents decided to usher me into my initial schooling when I was two. Oddly that one decision dictated a lot about what sort of friends and peers I would have for the rest of my life…

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Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince – Movie Review

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Harry Potter And the Half Blood Prince
[rating:4.5/5]

Harry Potter and his friends are back in this the sixth edition of the series. The young heroes from Hogwarts are out to stop the evil forces of Lord Voldemort as he slowly increases his grip on the Wizard world. In the movie version of the Penultimate book of the now legendary seven book series, Harry Potter is put face to face with the origins and younger years of Tom Riddle and for the first watches as his deepest fears come true…

Its never fair to compare the movie to the book it was based on, but the Half blood prince succeeds where many others have failed in the past. In the 150 odd minutes of its running the director, David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves managed to capture the essence of the 400 page book, which was easily my most favorite of the series. Along the way they took the liberty to introduce comic sequences and short cuts in the original story to fit the movie within the limits of a movie.

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