Don’t let them in

Jaaved and Shreyas stuff oranges down their vests,paint their lips,and become the ‘wives’ (the other two are the ‘husbands’),because that’s the only way landlord Jhonny Lever will let out rooms. Each of the guys has a girl,naturally,and some of those girls have pesky dads,and bad attitudes.

Crying wolf

Film: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Hugh Jackman,Liev Schreiber,Danny Huston.
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Almost every superhero has spawned multiple sequels. And the story of Wolverine’s past is begging to be told,given that this mysterious and most-popular of the mutants doesn’t remember any of it. So,screenwriters David Benioff and Skip Woods had a big leeway—they could have gone anywhere and everywhere. But nowhere do we get an idea how Wolverine becomes what he does.When the film starts,Wolverine is a rather sickly child called Jimmy Logan,fighting another bout of cold. His friend Victor is keeping him company. Within minutes though,Victor’s Dad has killed Jimmy’s. As Jimmy strikes out at him in anger,he finds long,wolf-like nails growing out of his knuckles. In his dying moments,Victor’s Dad says it is he who is Jimmy’s real father,and Victor runs away with the boy,telling him they have to look out for each other. We watch Victor (Liev Schreiber) grow more and more violent and out of control,and Jimmy (Hugh Jackman) more and more skeptical.Rather than focusing on the two brothers who are similar but narrowly apart,too much time is expended on Major William Stryker (Danny Huston),who has none of the menace of the villains of the previous X-Men,including the Stryker played by Brian Cox. Schreiber,on the contrary,is terribly good,evoking a whiff of unpredictability in his every screen moment. With Jackman his proficient self (just doing that much for his fourth Wolverine appearance),this could have been an altogether different film if it revolved around the two of them. It doesn’t help that rather than natural power or innate goodness,what eventually puts Wolverine along the path of uniqueness is a scientific experiment. (A hero with an unfair advantage… what were they thinking?)

The filmmakers also have a puzzled Wolverine chasing a mystery involving mutant experiments,an impressive-sounding meteorite component,a Weapon XI,the first hint of the “X-factor (giving the X-men their name)”,an island,and a frozen child somehow connected to all of this.In the midst of all this,Logan finds time for a brief romance in an isolated cottage atop a hill,staring at the moon,an episode from which he gets the name Wolverine. And we thought it had something to with his facial hair.