Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman prominently play the movie leads. An aristocratic lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) comes to Australia to catch her husband cheating but finds him dead and discovers a deep-rooted conspiracy to take over her land called the Faraway Downs. The villianous landowner neighbor wants to maintain a cattle supply monopoly to the army with her land and cattle.

A woman that comes to sell her property and take her husband back to England decides to stay and fight the corruption with the help of Drover (Jackman), a cowboy of sorts, who though initially relectant, later agrees to fight by her side!

Thenceforth starts a love story that goes through ups and downs and tests their bond in failure and success!

My take on this movie: Worth a watch on DVD. Nicole Kidman is a sight to behold for the guys and I guess the women would want to see Hugh Jackman, the People magazine’s 2008 sexiest man alive! But, the movie is slow and tedious in many parts and lacks the “epic” feel.

My rating: 

Rating: ★★★☆☆ 

Genre:   Historical, Romance

The gigles, screams and adoration in the theatre from all the teens present were what made me write a better review for this movie. If I had seen it alone, I’d probably called it an average movie…but obviously a section of our society (teens) feel it’s worth watching and for once I need to look at it from their point of view too.

Vampires have varied in structure and form since centuries of depictions and though the basic things remain the same, the peripheral qualities change. Our hero has eyes that turn colors (and at one point they are golden!!) He has cold hands, pale skin, runs fast, climbs trees even faster and has superhuman strength. Innocent, rebellious Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), who studies with her in school in Forks, Washington, where she has been sent by her mom to live with her dad.

A slow and tedious love story follows. I think it was pretty slow in a lot of places. Many a times I kept hoping they would kiss or make love…but nothing happens (sorry to disappoint you people.) Of course, no story can be complete without some villains and here they’re a set of three “bad” vampires that threaten to disrupt their love and make a meal out of Bella. I would’ve expected to see some scary, frightening scenes to follow but it was pretty lackluster. Happy ending. Everyone goes home!!

I guess most teenage girls went to see Robert Pattinson. I can’t see any “handsome-ness” in that man but the teen girls all do…so I guess he is. The teens boys probably just went along…I doubt Kristen Stewart was really that much of a motivation!!

Our rating:  

Rating: ★★★☆☆ 

Genre: Romance, Teen

Since Daniel Craig took over as James Bond the series has taken on a new and exciting turn for the better. After multitudes of similar Bond movies, we are finally watching a new revolution. And, it’s important to see this one because I think this begins Bond’s new nemesis, Quantum.

James Bond heads out to find the people that blackmailed Vesper Lynd (Bond’s lady love who went to her watery grave in Casino Royale) and makes the battle very personal. In doing so, he discovers a larger-than-life evil organization hidden from the top intelligence agencies in the world and one particular member of this organization, Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) who is plotting to control an essential ingredient of every day life in South America.

The difference with Daniel Craig is that he has gone back to the old glorious days of Sean Connery and the “rough and tough” James Bond that is not dependent on gadgets but gets down and dirty and I personally LOVE IT. This is the quintessential James Bond the way I grew up reading Ian Fleming’s books.

Adding to the list of 83 official Bond girls are Olga Kurylenko (on screen as Camille Montes) and Gemma Arterton (on screen as Strawberry Fields)…both possessing the requisite to be a Bond girl…being HOT or HOTTER!!

There you have it…So go out there and ENJOY the movie! Have fun!

Our rating: 

Rating: ★★★★☆ 

Genre: Action

GHOST TOWN MOVIE

Now, this is an unexpectedly funny movie….not in a LMAO kinda way but pretty funny. Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a dentist whose inter-personal skills are much less than desired as is his habit of not being a very friendly person. In fact, he goes out of the way to avoid helping people to the extent that everyone around him knows him as an annoying and nasty little man. Then one day he dies for seven minutes and starts seeing ghosts. All these ghosts want him to help them and as they all gang up on him, Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) steps in and makes a deal with him to help him get rid of the man in his wife’s life in return for making all the ghosts disappear. What follows is hilarious as well as manages to strum your heart strings ending in a tranformation that even Bertram is suprised by. Ricky has a funny sense of humor and a way about him that you will find funny. Greg Kinnear is fairly decent as he has always been….average. And, then there’s Te’a Leoni, beautiful as ever, playing the role of Frank’s wife. She does a pretty good job acting.

Directed by David Koepp, who has the unique experience of being a screenwriter and director for blockbuster hits like Jurrasic Park, Panic Room, Stir of Echoes, Mission: Impossible, Spiderman etc.

Our rating:

Rating: ★★★☆☆