The Tourist

Year : 2010
Runtime : 103 Min.
Genre : Thriller, Romance
Director : Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Movie Stars : Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff, Rufus Sewell, Christian De Sica
Country: USA
Language : English, Italian, French, Russian

Not as bad as pretty much all the critics say it is. It's entertainment! Not art! I don't think I can stress that enough. The director may have intended for this to be "the" romance thriller of the year and a wonderful film. The film was wonderful (I say that loosely) but it wasn't the best of the year. Vienna and Paris was a nice setting for the movie. It's pretty and interesting.Anyone will love it, especially if you have never been for yourself.

I sensed some chemistry between Johnny and Angelina... it wasn't much. Angelina played the role of the upper class well mannered woman well. Johnny played a very convincing dumb American tourist (speaking Spanish to the Italians... WTH). The match wasn't made in heaven but it was close enough for me. Ultimately this movie was a nice way to burn an hour and thirty minutes. It was entertaining, laughable,  and quite enjoyable for those you know how to sit back, relax and shut the fuck up about  all the things wrong with it.It was not the best, but most definitely not the worst.

Bridesmaids

Year : 2011
Runtime : 125 Min.
Genre : Comedy
Director : Paul Feig
Movie Stars : Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne
Country: USA
Language : English

Why are they wearing different dresses in the poster than they do in the movie? Just asking...

This story is very well written and acted out. Hilarious and female ruled film filled with hilarious shit (literally), heart warming moments, "friendly" competition, and tons of laughs. This may look like a chick flick but trust me your guy (or if you are a guy) will love this movie. It's just funny!  The characters, even Helen, are just absolutely lovable. We have the rich uptight girl, the dysfunctional, the weird but adorable, and many other sides of people. Plus a cute Irish man and annoying Brits. How can it get any better?

Yes I know the review is really short, but hey it was a good film for everyone with any sense of humor and maybe relationship problems. Just stop reading this and go see for yourself if you have not already.

True Blood: S4 E2

Show: True Blood
Season: 4
Episode: 2
Original Airing: July 3, 2011

WOW! The season picks up in just the second episode. True Blood Episode Two is where things begin to tie in and the drama is building. Gosh, I wish I could watch all the episodes in one night. Forget that one episode per Sunday. I'm eating my words about the "loosely" part of my episode one review.

I know this review is early, but if you seen the True Blood commercials on HBO you know that they had a special viewing for the second episode on their itunes app and various HBO websites. Luckily for you guys that are reading this I embedded the episode at the bottom of this post. It's uploaded at Megavideo so it's free to watch. Enjoy. As usually I make the plot review short and to the point, as many of you are going to be watching the episode yourself in just a few minutes if you have not seen it already.

True Blood Season 4 Premiere

Show: True Blood
Season: 4
Episode: 1
Original Airing: June 26, 2011


Last night I watched the season 4 premiere of HBO's hottest show since the Sopranos. The season is supposed to loosely follow the fourth book of the Sookie Stackhouse series.  So far I don't see any resemblances to the book besides the coven of witches.  But I digress, this season is sure to be full of surprises, twists, plenty of blood, and the sexy vamp Eric Northman.  I'll try and keep the episode summary short and to the point. 

The fairy world is everything you would think it sure be, right- magical people, beautiful woman, golden fruit, and goblins.... wait? Did I say goblins? The fairy world is not what it is supposed to be as Sookie soon finds out. The queen fairy is set on sealing off the fairy world from the human and she will not let Sookie escape. Good thing Sookie didn't eat the golden fruit! Sookie finds her long lost grandpa who is supposedly dead. At first he does not recognize her, because according to him Sookie is still a seven year old girl.  The Grandpa realizes that what seemed like hours was 20 years.

Neo Ned

Year : 2005
Runtime : 97 Min.
Genre : Drama,Romance
Director : Van Fischer
Movie Stars :Jeremy Renner, Gabrielle Union, Sally Kirkland, Cary Elwes, Ethan Suplee
Country: USA
Language : English

A good story played out by awesome actors. Jermy Renner (Ned) plays a very convincing Neo Nazi. Although I don't believe his character was a true racist. It's more likely that he just wanted some where to belong due to his lack of supporting environment.  Gabrielle Union looks so much older without all the makeup and glam. This movie came out in 2005 and Gabrielle looks younger in later film Daddy's Little Girls  which released in 2007. All in all this was an surprisingly pleasant and bit funny movie that deals with the sensitive topic of race and interracial relationships. 


PLOT: They say opposites attract. What about a misguided neo nazi who falls for a Black woman in a mental institution? What starts out as an impossible connection of opposites slowly turns into a wild, emotional story of love, romance revolving around two people who shouldn't be together, but after meeting them you'll know they should never be apart.

"A Family that commits suicide together stays together"

Beware of the Pedophile!

This is what we call tripping out

Hey its the dude from those two other racial movies

From this angle Gabrielle looks like a man

Money see. Monkey do.

Man huge

A quick escape

Make it more obvious

Do you own another shirt

Brindavanam

Year : 2010
Runtime : 152 Min.
Genre : Action, Romance
Director : Vamsi Paidipally
Movie Stars :NTR Jr., Kajal Aggarwal,Samantha, Srihari, Prakash Raj
Country: India
Language : Telugu

I'm going to completely honest here. So all you people that are die-hard Tolly fans or NTR/ Kajal fans may just want to scroll down and look at the awesome screencaps that I have for you guys. This movie was completely annoying. Very annoying! Between the over dramatic music every single second something a little bit dramatic happened, Kajal's crying, and the over the top action scenes that make no sense I almost went insane. This is not my first Telugu movie so I am no stranger to over the top action; anyone remember Mahesh Babu taking on over 100 men and winning in Okkadu. Guess what, Okkadu is one of my favorite Telugu movies so it is not that I mind the zany  action. Brindavanam's action just didn't fit well in the movie and it was wayyyyyyy over the moon (yes more than taking on 100 men). South Indian films are dramatic. Just putting that out there. But I swear to you the film editor became too happy with the sound effects. Every single cry, laugh, hug, smile, fight, monologue, and soliloquy there was the same three dramatic sound effects playing.  

I know this is a cultural thing.  In this cultural I know it is not cool, okay, or acceptable to stand up to your elder, especially when its your father and you are a female. I accept this fact but Kajal and Samantha's characters just stood by without saying a word as their friend/boyfriend just beat up unjustifiably. SPOILER! I didn't expect them to step in and stop the fight between their fathers and Krish but they could have explained what happened (the deal they made to allow Bhoomi to borrow Krish) and tell the fathers that everything Krish did was for Bhoomi only. No! They just stand by and let him die for their sins (so to speak).  You guys know I can not stand damsels in distress... not in this century. 

Ajay, the cousin and antagonist, please get a new facial expression. That creeper smile that you had was just too  much and so where the Gemstone Green Freshlook contacts. They made you look like a rapist. There is not wonder why Bhoomi did not want you.  

I AM NOT saying that this was a bad movie. No, the story/script was sound and very entertaining. Kajal, whom I've liked since Magadheera, was perfect for the role especially when paired with Samantha Prabhu.  Both are very beautiful actresses who will go far in this business, especially Kajal (who know you love Kajal). I didn't like NTR as much. This is the first movie I've seen of his and from this I understand that he is an okay actor. No offense to his fans, but something just doesn't sit right with me. I think Allu Ajrun could have bought a funnier (and sexier... shush I didn't say that) character. If you can look pass the dramatic music, crazy action, and crying women than based on the story alone I would recommend this movie.


IMDB: Krish (NTR) is the son of a billionaire businessman (mukesh Rishi). He has a girl friend Indu (samantha). Her friend Bhoomi (kajal) wants to pursue her higher studies and lands in trouble when her father (Prakash Raj) wants to marry her to his nephew (Ajay). Her grandfather (Kota Srinivasa Rao) convinces her dad, saying that she already likes someone in the city so her dad asks her to bring her lover home. Indu asks Krish to go as Bhoomi's Lover. Meanwhile, Bhoomi's uncle (Srihari), and her father (Prakash) live apart in two adjacent villages. The two families are feuding with each other. Krish is hated by Bhoomi's entire family and he has to overcome many things in his attempt to get everyone to love him. 

No one I know has every said that

Some dude named El Diablo

If thats possible...

No one noticed...

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Kaavalan

Year : 2011
Runtime : 152 Min.
Genre : Action, Romance
Director : Siddique
Movie Stars : Vijay, Asin, Rajkiran, Mithra Kurian, Roja Selvamani, Vadivelu
Country: India
Language : Tamil

Tamil: காவலன்
Translation: Bodyguard

The first half of the film focuses on Boominathan (Vijay) being a bodyguard for Meera (Asin). As the film progresses Meera begins calling Boomie and pretending to be his secret admirer. This admiration turns into love for Meera. At this point of the film it doesn't matter that Boomie is her bodyguard because the movie makes no reference to this fact. Boomie goes from wearing an uniform and following Meera everywhere to barely paying her any attention. If you had missed the first half of the movie you would not know that he was her bodyguard and thus would be patting your head because the title means Bodyguard. Why does this matter? Kaavalan does a complete 180 and turns into your average secret admirer romance stories when that was the not the purpose in the beginning. I sort of feel like the whole "Bodyguard" thing was just a smoke screen for something else and didn't stay true to beginning-middle-end.

The ending got me. ;D The ending was the best part because its kind of a shocker and it's that little twist that Kaavalan has been needing for a long time now. I feel like it tied everything up nicely but while leaving a little cliffhanger.

^This movie will also be remade into Telugu and Hindi^.

PLOT: Remake of Malayalam filmBodyguard, Kaavalan is about a man who becomes the bodyguard of Muthuramalingam (Rajkiran) after he receives threats from heart broken family members of a deceased girl who was involved with Muthuramaligam's son. Soon the family threatens the daughter of Muthuramlingam, Meera. Boomie becomes Meera's bodyguard and receives unknown calls from a secret admirer (Meera). Boomie falls in love with his secret admirer and the rest of the film is about Boomie growing love.

There is a rat on his lip

Money see, Monkey do

Look at all that white chest hair

That's gonna hurt

NO! It's all pain.