LATEST STILLS : Adventures of Tintin

Spielberg's first animation (rather motion capture) The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn is slated for an year end release. Jamie Bell plays Tintin, Andy Serkis is Captain Haddock with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost donning the roles of the Thomson detectives. Three high resolution stills from this movie are out and the rendering looks pretty neat. Check them out. (CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT)

FIRST LOOK : X-Men: First Class Teaser Poster

The teaser poster for X Men First Class is making rounds on the net. The image looks cropped from a wider image and therefore I have my doubts on its authenticity. The scripture on the shield is cut out which would ideally have been a real teaser. It is probably a fan made one, but enjoy it anyways.

LOONEY LIST: My Top 5 coolest characters of 2010

I know I am late for the year end party, but better late than never right! So, here is my list of top five characters that I found ultra cool last year. It can be their attitude, looks or their charismatic presence that reserved them a seat in this list. These are the kind of guys that you root for, whether they are morally good or bad. The characters listed are only from the movies of 2010 that I have seen, and there are many that I haven't. So there you go.

5. Metro Man (MEGAMIND)

Its been quite a while since Brad Pitt has looked this cool in a movie. His Metro Man is stylish, arrogant, a big show-off and keeps the proceedings interesting as long as he is on the screen. I terribly missed the encounters between Metro Man and Megamind and wish there was more of him in the movie.

4. Ree Dolly (WINTER'S BONE)

Ree Dolly has the responsibility of the whole house on her shoulders and she can go to any length to protect her younger siblings. To save the only shelter they have she starts on a quest to find her missing father, even if it means dealing with the most powerful and dangerous men of the town. Played by Jennifer Lawrence with great intensity, Ree Dolly comes across as one of the coolest characters seen on screen last year.

3. Arthur (INCEPTION)

Arthur is the point man, the one responsible for getting all the details in place before the job. He is loyal, dependable and extremely professional. Joseph Gordon-Levitt nails down the role with his looks alone and gets to do the gravity-defying sequence that also happens to be the coolest action piece of the movie.


2. Hit Girl (KICK ASS)

Hit-Girl played by Chloe Moretz is a sweet little school girl who can kick some real ass. She has been training with her dad Mr.Big Daddy since infancy and turns out to be the best superhero of the movie. 

1. Mark Zuckerberg (THE SOCIAL NETWORK)

Jesse Eisenberg's impression of Mark Zuckerberg is a person who talks to the point and rarely smiles. He will not impress you with sweet talk but his extreme attention to details. He doesn't mince words and can insult you with his sharp statements. But underneath that persona is a person who will always root for his friends. The character being based on a real person makes it the coolest of them all.

Who according to you was the coolest character of 2010?

BOLLY REVIEW : Tees Maar Khan (2010)

Tees Maar Khan, Farah Khan's third directorial venture, starts interestingly with a voice-over of Sanjay Dutt and a very innovatively amusing, James Bondish title sequence involving a baby Tees Maar Khan(TMK) learning the trades of con from his mother's womb. This, unfortunately is the singlemost comic sequence in this wannabe comic caper gone completely haywire.

Based on Peter Seller's After the Fox, TMK tells the story of Tabrez Mirza Khan a.k.a. Tees Maar Khan (Akshay Kumar), a self-flattering con artist who takes pleasure in bragging about himself with not-so-funny one liners. He is surrounded by his incompetent assisstants Dollor, Soda and Burger (if these names are meant to be funny then I don't get it) and has a girlfriend(Katrina Kaif) who is dabbling in the Z-grade exploitative cinema to make it big as an actress. Aatish Kapoor (Askhaye Khanna) is a big Indian star actor who is obsessed with the Golden statuette ever since Anil Kapoor has made it to the Oscars. Then, there are the Siamese twins, the Johri Brothers (played by real life twins Rajeev and Raghu) who want to rob the antiquities that the Indian Police is transporting from Mumbai to Delhi in a heavily guarded non-stop train. The brothers seek the help of TMK who apparently is the only mind which can plan the great heist. And what does Mr.TMK do? He concocts a plan to shoot a fake film in a small village though which the train would pass and use the villagers as the cast. And this would provide him with enough men to stop and rob the running train. He also cons Atish Kapoor and convinces him to act in the film by posing as the great Hollywood director Manoj Day Ramalan. So much for the greatest con.

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (2010) : A Review

What does a movie that blends the genres of action, romance, musical, fantasy and comedy remind you of? Definitely Bollywood for me. But, Edgar Wright has managed to put all these elements into a crazy Hollywood movie which is not even remotely Bollywoodish in nature. Based on the graphic novel series by Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is a fantasy-musical-action-comedy along the lines of Stephen Chow flicks which are mad, energetic but also extremely entertaining.

The movies revolves around Scott Pilgrim(Michael Cera), a bass guitarist for the band named "Sex Bob Ombs". He starts dating a Chinese high school girl Knives(Ellen Wong), but one fine day when he meets Ramona, he falls head-over-heals in love with her. From that moment, he starts ignoring Knives and begins wooing Ramona. But little does he know that to gain Ramona's love he has to fight her seven evil exes.