“Contact” is a very exciting movie about the search and eventual discovery of extraterrestrial life. Jodie Foster plays Ellie Arroway, a young scientist obsessed with the search. She delivers a great performance, as does Matthew McConaughey as Palmer Joss, her religious boyfriend. I mainly like the film for the storyline, however, which is based on [...]

“Tower Heist”, Ben Stiller’s latest movie will hit the screens on November 2, 2011. After Jim Carrey’s “Fun with Dick and Jane” a dozen movies with similar synopsis flocked the screen. “Tower Heist” too has a similar script. But, we can certainly expect more from Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. News is afloat that Ben [...]

FITZCARROLDO (1982) is the visually lush story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, a dreamer in the Amazon jungle who is determined to open an opera house in a small godforsaken Peruvian town perched on the banks of the mightiest river in the world. For this purpose he doesn’t mind accepting a considerable cash infusion from his [...]

It’s still many months away from being released, but fans are already getting frustrated with the Avengers movie. Whilst the movie cannot possibly live up to fan boy expectations, it wasn’t too long ago people were really excited about seeing the world’s finest superheroes united on screen. My question is, what’s changed? Similar to next [...]

The techniques to master how to write a movie script can be learned through rigorous practice and feedback. Scripts are the building blocks of movies and responsible for the blockbusters you see on the big screen. Ever since the dawn of the film industry, great movies have begun with screenplay writers. Today, script writing is [...]

Who among us hasn’t at some point in their lives dreamed of making a career in the movies. However; when most people dream of earning the big bucks in the movies, they think in terms of being a highly paid actor or actress. The truth is though that the people acting in any movie are [...]

A Beginners’ Guide The MP3 player has become one of the most popular gadgets that everyone wants to own and carry around. The latest versions of the erstwhile MP3 player that could only play music files have ensured that this small little gadget stays around for a long time. Today’s MP3 players compete with the [...]

Visually, this new Conan feels authentic, with gallons of blood spattering against tempered steel as muscular men wage war with beasts and each other alike. Yet while the action and carnage might sate the most bloodthirsty of viewers, the film feels rather soulless as the endless battles carry on with no pause for dialogue, character [...]

Movie trailers are short film advertisements of new movies that are not yet in theatres. They are previews of the film that give hints of its story line and introduce the actors and the scenery. Trailers are so named because in the early years of cinema, the advertisements for one film were shown after another [...]

When it comes to horror movies, bigger isn’t always better but less is almost always more. In The Thing, we still get a decent helping of thrills, but the changes to the creature, the revealing of its natural state and the expansion of its mythology detract from the overall terror. Seeing more of the alien [...]