Priyadarshan, Malaamal 2.
If media reports are to be believed, Priyadarshan’s third project in his 3-films agreement with Percept Picture Company (PPC) will be the sequel to his 2006 rip-off of Waking Ned Divine (1998) – Malamaal Weekly. Pretty soon, you will witness the second coming of Malamaal Weekly, to a theater near you, courtesy Priyadarshan.This is being written with the definitive knowledge that this expression of indignation won’t make a dime’s worth of difference to anything.
Celebrating the Razzies.
The 30th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 6, 2010, which honours the worst movies of Hollywood that had been released in the year 2009. The Razzies, which are usually held one day preceding the Oscar Ceremony stayed true to its course in announcing the ‘Winners’ for the Worst performances in Hollywood releases. Sandra Bullock became the first actor in history to receive a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year!
The Hurt Locker Effect.
Nominated for 9 Oscars, and winning 6 out of them would have looked like an insurmountable task for the makers of Hurt Locker, which is really two years old! Now, with close to 67 awards and 6 Oscars under its belt, the measly US $ 15 million-budgeted visceral statement on the Iraq war might just be unwittingly the doorway that would usher in a draft of forthrightness and honesty in making war movies.
The Oscars 2010 Winners.
Here is the complete list of the winners of the Academy Awards 2010, also called the Oscars, undoubtedly the biggest show in Hollywood, and by now the most widely watched event world wide.We have clumped the winning titles for a single entity together, which would, we feel, give a more deepened sense of respect and admiration at the toil and efforts that went in to make it to the top of the Hollywood list.
‘Crazy Heart’ gets the Oscar.
We mentioned, way back in November,2009 about this story of a washed-up country singer that held promise of this year’s dark-horse victory at the Oscars? Well, it would be prudent enough to just say that well, this Crazy Heart just won the Oscar for the Academy Award for an Actor in a Leading Role. For Jeff Bridges, the jinx of the four Oscar nominations has at last been exorcised by the resonant strains from this Crazy Heart’s guitar, and his life.
Is there anybody in charge?
The done-to-death clichéd quote from Swami Vivekananda’s Lectures,“Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar? What inference would you draw except that these Malabaris are all lunatics, their homes so many lunatic asylums and they are to be treated with derision by every race in India until they mend their manners and know better!”makes perfect sense if you have been an ardent fan of Malayalam movies.
Bourne is in Baghdad.
The Director is Paul Greengrass.Check.The lead role of the Warrant Officer aiding CIA operatives in Iraq is played by Matt Damon.Check.Its edited by Christopher Rouse.Check. Distributed by Universal.Check.But, no, Green Zone is NOT, repeat NOT a Bourne movie.t is by the same team, with the protagonist’s linear progression in the story, dangerously close to what is expected in a Bourne thriller.Make no mistake,Bourne is in the shadows of every frame.
The Maddest Wonderland.
Think Lewis Carroll, the master of logical, literary nonsense (whoa, what a combination). Add a huge dollop of Tim Burton’s fertile imagination and about an equal helping of Johnny Depp.It is doubtful if any divine force on your speed dial can save you from the ensuing madness when these three come together for a production employing every bit of technology at their beck and call to bring the fantasy alive.Lunacy meets visual brilliance.