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Sunday 17 April 2016

The Wizards of the Aus Review

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Now one of the great things about my job is that I get to see new shows and tell you about it. A few days ago I stumbled on to the trailer of “The Wizards of Aus”and I couldn’t wait to see the series. It is a six part web series. It is a show created by Micheal Shanks and it is one of the most creative shows I have seen in a long time. You may recognize Micheal from his youtube Channel “timtimfed”. He has made a lot of short movies and all of them have that use special effects to tell an unique and interesting story.

“The Wizards of Aus” is a story about a Wizard who lives in a “Lord of the rings” kind of a universe and grows tired of the everyday hustle and bustle of thewizarding life. He decides that he wants a quite life in the suburbs. So he travels to Modern day Melbourne to escape his life in the wizarding world. The series shows how he tries to settle in and make a normal life for himself away from all the magic. But eventually his past catches up to him. Now Special effects is a big part of the movie. They have used practical and CGI effects to enhance the characters and they work so well. I am a huge fan of lord of the rings and harry potter movies and so it is great to see this series where characters from your favorite movie. All of them have a hilarious and unexpected twist. It is almost like you are watching a parody of the those movies. Many of the A list Actors like guy pearce(How did they rope him in?), Bruce Spence(Last time I saw him he was beating down NEO in the Matrix trilogy yup the “train man”) and Mark Mitchellare also in the series. They add a lot to the show and make it such a blast to watch.

If you haven’t guessed I really liked it and I give it a 9/10. I highly recommend you to watch this series. It is small and you will miss it when its over.

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The Veil Review

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Starring Jessica alba, Thomas jane, and Lily Rabe and it isDirected by philjoanou

This story is largely inspired by the mass suicide that happened in Jonestown, Guyana in the year 1977. Around 900 people died including women and children. This movie borrows a lot of elements form that incident but many of the names and dates have been changed for this movie.

In the movie, members of this cult who were following preacherjim Jacobs commit mass suicide. Only one 5yr old girl by the name of sarah survives this horrible incident.

Still after 25 years, Lot of thequestions remains unanswered like how did she survive? why did they all commit suicide? Why were they following jim Jacobs in the first place?

The sole survivor of the mass suicide sarah hope (played by Lily Rabe) receives a letter from Maggie price asking her to join her. Maggie price (played by Jessica alba) is a filmmaker who is trying to investigate incident and wants to make a documentary on the mass suicides.she wants to go back to the place where it all beganand find some answers behind these mysterious suicides. Sarah reluctantly agrees to join her and returns to the scene of the tragedy.

Initially I was fascinated by the story and kind of wanted to know more about the characters and where they are going. Sarah is one of the main characters that the film focuses on but she has the biggest flaws in the movie. She is not well defined in the movie. Foreg: sarah has this premonition about one of the crew members and the next day he goes missing. Shit!!!! Why doesn’t she tell anybody? I like lily rabe and she was fantastic in American Horror story but I wish that her role was better written.

Finally we come to Jim Jacobs(Played by Thomas jane), who is the preacher and the founder of the cult. He is loosely based on jim jones the real cult leader. I won’t say much about his character but i will say this, Thomas is good in this role but the story lets him down but he owns the role quite well. The most screwed up character of the film is the Karen sweetzer’s Character. At one point in the film you are left wondering why is she doin that to her daughter?

My final thoughts on the film guys. It is a horror movie, which tries to tell a story in a new and unique way, but the film looses the “scary factor”mid way through the movie. There are jump scares here and there but it doesn’t work. The Second half of the film is not as good as the first half. The ending is very inconsistent

I give this movie a 5 out of 10 watch the movie on bluray

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The Revenant Review

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Starring Leonardo di caprio, tom hardy and domhnall Gleeson. This is a story of man in 1820s who is left for dead in the wild after a bear attack. This is not just a story of survival but it is also a story of revenge. Going into this film I knew that it was a 2 and half hour long movie but when the movie was over it didn’t feel like it. That is a another way of say it was very good. It was gripping and made me care about the characters. Director alejandroinarritu has made a gorgeous movie and it is astonishing that he shoot the whole movie in natural light and no artificial lights were used. Actors are very good in their parts and especially LEO. His character goes through a lot pain and at times you are forced to wonder if you were in his place would you have survived? No!!! I wouldn’t have

I want to say more about the movie but I would end up spoiling the movie. This Movie is a strong contender for the Oscars in my opinion.

I recommend you to watch this movie

Let me know what you think about it.

The Jungle Book 2016 Review

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You guys must have probably watched 1967 jungle bookmovie at least once but do you guys know that there was a TV show jungle book it was a Japanese shonen that’s right! Ok let me tell you about it.

As a child growing up in the 90’s, Every Sundays we would get to watch 2 hours of cartoons on DD channel. For the people watching from different parts of the world Inindia (it was a channel operated by the government and it was free)(Also known as Doordarshan). Now this was before cartoon network came to india and at the time, There were no 24 hour cartoon channels like you have now. Sowe would get to watch cartoons continuously, one after the other, for those 2 hours. Jungle Book would air during that time and it was one of those shows that had good characters, solid character development and the theme song still resonates with many of us who come from that generation. It was so popular here thatthey had it translated in many Indian languages. As far back as I can remember every sunday morning that was the routine.

Yes, it was a Japanese made version of jungle book that I was introduced to first, but it was almost a decade later that I saw the 1967 Disney version. I liked that too! Animation and the narrative was a little different but the main story was the same.

So as you I was excited to see the new version of jungle book

This movie is directed by jonfavreau and has an impressive cast of voice actors

Mowgli (Neel Sethi), Baloo (Bill Murray), Bagheera (Ben kingsley), ShareKhan(Idris Elba), Kaa (Scarlet Johansson) Raksha (LupitaNyong’o) and king louie (Christopher Walken)

Many of you would know the plot of the movie but I will give you a snipet of the plot. Mowgli is a young boy who is lost in the jungle after losing his biological parents. He gets adopted by a pack of wolves that look after him and train him to be like a wolf. They soon find out he is a free spirit and adventurous boy. Suddenly share khan comes to the jungle and everything changes.

The narrative of this movie is quiet similar to the 1967 version more or less. It is a little darker as well. I like the characters, especially share Khan and baloo’s. ShareKhan’s first few moments are terrifying and they did every thing right with this character. Edrisalba was perfect for this role. Even bill murray’s voice was a good choice for balloo but relationship between him and mowgli didn’t seem to work as well as it did in the 1967 version. Overall voice acting is very good.

The movie looks amazing, Visually this is how a real mowgli would look if he was living in a jungle. The CGI animals look authentic and real. The movie pulls you in and immerses you in the jungle. Despite amazing voice acting, awesome animation and good talent behind the camera this film fails to capture the same charm that the 1967 version did. That brings me to another point, Mowgli

I liked neelsethi’s work butthe 1967’s Mowgli was innocent and bit of a clueless kid but this mowgli is resourceful and sarcastic. He doesn’t even need a pack give him a few sticks and stones he will be able to defend himself. But that’s just my opinion. The balloomowgli relationship was the best part about the 1967 version but in this one we don’t see the same connection.

Even though many elements have been borrowed 1967 movie, I liked it. They even have the same songs from the movie. But it doesn’t seem to reach the same level as the previous one did. Don’t get me wrong it is a movie, which a whole family can enjoy. I give this movie an 8/10 I wish I could talk to animals. I would love that!

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Standoff Review

What you think I am a monster! Wow! I did not expect this!

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Starring: Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne and Ella Ballentine

Before I begin, Let me tell you guys that Thomas jane is one of the underrated actors in Hollywood. It may be because of the unsuccessful string of movies that he starred in or it might be movies themselves were a good whatever the case it is always good to watch him perform.

This is a movie about a girl Isabel who witnesses amurder and tries to escapes from the assassin. She winds up taking refuge in Carter’s house (Carter is played by Thomas jane). The Assassin (played by Laurence Fishburne) follows her and tries to kill her but carter thwarts his attempt. This begins a standoff between him and the assassin.Carter manages to restrict the assassin to the ground floor and holds him off. Now the Assassin can’t leave without killing Isabel and carter can’t let her be killed in good conscience. Assassin wants to get Isabel at any cost so he tries to intimidate carter psychologically into giving her up. Carter being stubborn man that he is tries his best to keep her safe.

This movie was better than what I expected it to be; it has asimple but engaging plot. It is a cat and mouse game between the assassin and carter. It has some cringe worthy scenes. The movie is entertaining throughout but that doesn’t mean that there are no flaws. I mean there are other things that the assassin could have done to end the standoff but he tries to reason with him. I think that is one of the loopholes.

The Background music in the movie it is haunting and adds to the vibe of the movie.It made the assassin more intimidating.

The casting of the movie is also amazing. All the actors in the movie are good in their roles. Laurence and Thomas do a good job in the film. Laurence especially is good in this part as a fast talking, stone cold killer. Its been a long time since I have seen him in a character like this. And I liked it . One of the first characters that you see is Isabel played by ella ballentine.You can’t help imagine yourself being in Isabel’s place. Her character has a sad past but she is sweet and innocent, Ella nails her part perfectly.

The Ending of the movie is good. Certain facts are revealed which makes you go oh crap! Things could have been worst. It is very interesting to see the plot play out. There are exciting twists and turns

I Give this movie 8/10. If you like psychological mind games then this is for you.

Spectre Review

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Characters batista, monicabelluci, Christoph waltz,

Movie is slow compared to others

This is kind of a grand finale of the Daneil Craig bond movies since this is the fourth movie.

This is in many ways different from other bond movies that we have seen in the past.

Bond is in pursuit of this Mysterious organization, which is behind the all these attacks and crimes in the world.

As all bond movies it takes him all across the globe.

Story starts off very slow but eventually picks up

There are a lot of flaws, I don’t hate the movie but I didn’t like the movie either.

Action in the movie is the same, I mean we have seen so many times in the bond movies, it wasn’t as impactful for me. The bond girls are as always are hot and good eyecandy.

Cons :

Monica bellucci’s role is very really small

For me the Main Bad guy or the villan of the movie is not intimidating enough

It is not a spoiler!!

There were couple of things that bugged in terms of the continuation of the movie “the Car from MI6 travels all the way from London to Rome ”

But of course it is a james bond movie so you could look the other way.

But As I said “This is a different bond movie” simply because we see bond do things that we haven’t seen him do before. This is a very human bond compared to the other versions bond.

Music in the movie, the starting theme which sets up the whole movie is boring and it failed to do that. Throughout the movie we don’t hear the iconic bond theme AT ALL. it was like these guys were sleeping the whole movie and in the end when everything was done then threw the bond theme……..so yeah music is a let down.

The ending of the movie is pretty unique and it is the kind of ending that you will not expect from a Bond Movie.

If you have choice between MI5 orSpectre then I would recommend MI5 over Spectre.

That was my review of the movie Spectre do let me know what you think about the movie and Which Daniel craig’s bond movie do you like the most?

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Southbound Review

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It is directed by Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patric Horvath and Radio Silence.

This is a horror anthology same as the The Twilight Zone Movie. No, not this one, yes this one. In my opinion this was one of the best anthology film ever made. I saw it, when I was 16, That’s when I started liking these kinds of films. Usually in these kinds of films, there are four to five stories and each one would have an exciting narrativeand a horrifying twist in the end. I liked these kinds of films and if you are like me then you will also like southbound. The same people who have worked on V/H/S movies have worked on this movie so I was waiting for this movie to get released. I had some high expectations from this film.

Thank god that they didn’t go for the found footage style againbecause that would have been really awful. So there are five connecting stories about people who are stuck in a desert highway. Unlike VHS, these stories are connected to each other in one-way or the other. First story is about two guys trying to go home and on the way they see some creepy creatures which are hovering in the air, second is about three girls who are passing through the desert, their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere, a creepy couple invite them to their house and offer to fix their van.Third is about a man who gets into an accident and shit goes down, fourth is about a brother trying to save his sister and the final story is about three criminals who are following a family and then they break into their hotel. I am not going to dive into details because that’s the interesting part of the movie so I don’t want to ruin it for you guys.

I liked the third one andthe final one because they where really well done as compared to the other two. Nevertheless all the stories are interesting. Things happen in this movie, which are really creepy and unnerving. It is suspenseful and fast paced. This movie is not scary, it is horrifying. It forces you to ask certain questions about the whereabouts of this mysterious desert highway. What is this place? Why is this happening? These questions keeppopping up in your mind when you are watching this movie. The more you think about the answer, the location becomes clearer. The writers and directors have done a great job of narrating and executing the film. This movie has all the qualities of becoming a cult classic.There are lots of moments that reminded me of the old Twilight Zone episodes. Another thing that I like was the music.The soundtracks including the main theme are very good, 80’s synthe rock, it works well and fits the story. in between these stories a mysterious voice over the radio would say some ominous things. Almost like he knew what was happening, it added to the creepiness of the movie. DJ on the radio was a really nice touch.

In the month of jan many horror movies came out like the veil, the forest, the boy by the way why do they all have “the” in the beginning did you guys notice that? Ok To be honest I didn’t like any them but I really enjoyed this movie.

I give this movie 8/10 for telling a truly interesting horror story.

Guys so If you have seen this movie then let me know in the comments section if you figured out where the desert is located.

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