Director: Matt Reeves
Cast: Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David

With the slew of disaster films being made in Hollywood, the tendency to produce assembly films is abound. But thankfully, Cloverfield is anything but that. Released in January 2008, it is one of the highest grossing January releases.
The movie has an unconventional and a captivating style of storytelling, wherein a tape of the protagonists, Rob and… Read More

Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Francesc Albiol, Gonzalo Cunill

Movies that venture into the darker side of storytelling are a rarity and Perfume-The Story of a Murderer is one such happy rarity. Released in 2006, this Tom Tykwer directed German thriller, which received mixed critical response initially, traces the life of Jeaun-Baptiste Grenouille (played by Ben Whishaw) in flashback mode.
Born and abandoned in a French… Read More

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney

Say Sylvester Stallone and one immediately conjure up an image of John Rambo. The first of the John Rambo series till date remains one of the most intense movie watches and far ahead of the subsequent Rambo films.
Released in 1982, this post Vietnam psychological war thriller is often regarded as the most authentic portrayal of a… Read More

Director: Taylor Hackford
Cast: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Pamela Reed, David Caruso

You can be called alive only when there is proof regarding it, right? Your whereabouts are unknown and people go up to your folks informing them about your death. But you’re alive, only your people know not much about it.
This is the dilemma faced by Alice Browman (Meg Ryan), in the 2000 released Proof of Life,… Read More

Director: Brian De Palma
Cast:Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia

Drugs, crime, murder… sounds typical right?! After all every second Hollywood movie revolves somewhere round these lines. Scarface, the cult classic also revolves around these, but don’t mistake it for another run of the mill, almost assembly line crime drama. This 1983 movie, starring Al Pacino was way ahead of it time. Probably due to this reason,… Read More

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast:Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright

Science fiction is one of the favorite genres of Hollywood and ‘The Invasion’ is another product of it. The film was initially directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, but later the rewritten scenes were shot by James Mc Teigue.
Released in August 2007, this science fiction alien horror, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, tells about the dreadfulness caused when… Read More

Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valeri Nikolayev, Henry Goodman

Irony is always interesting to contemplate. The Saint somewhere falls in this line as from the title to the end of the movie; the undertones of irony are attractive. Sadly, only these undertones manage to be attractive as this 1996 released movie in totality fails to be so, negative critical reviews only adding to this point.
The… Read More

Director: Kevin Bray
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Michael Bowen, Neal McDonough

Imagine coming back to your beloved town where you grew up and had one of the most beautiful time of your life, with the hope of finding everything just the way you last saw it, but instead, the sight that greets you now is anything but beautiful and neither does it remind you of that lovely, homely town.Read More