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For most part of Drive,Gosling’s unnamed protagonist glides along in his car in silence,observing,waiting,watching.

Mausam starts like a dewy-fresh spring morning,where everything is familiar yet new.

Underdog Canadian-Sikh sportster. Overbearing Sardar father. Ice Hockey.

This is a crucial film for Taylor “Twilight” Lautner,requiring him to show that those biceps pack enough punch for him to carry a movie on his own.

“With age comes wisdom,” a monk tells Johnny English in this film.

Know what’s crazy and stupid,and won’t get you any love? Wearing sneakers to a fancy restaurant when you are in your 40s and have Julianne Moore for a wife.

How different can a movie about a superhero be? Try this one.

You have seen this film before,in various versions of that one question: “Can a boy and a girl ever be friends?”

With swine flu just two seasons old and bird flu only a little older,an outbreak of an unknown virus that kills fast and wide is an easily comprehensible nightmare.

For a film which dots every single I and crosses every single T,there couldn’t have been a better title. Me,My Brother,His Bride. Got it? Okay then.

Bol is a throwback to the well-crafted Pakistani TV serials that used to be hugely popular at one time,in which the girls were achingly lovely.

Just the fact of having a real girl with real motivations at the heart of a film makes you want to celebrate.

Bodyguard can also safely be called “In which Salman Continues to Give Us Those Ones”.

Okay,I wasn’t sure I could share this film with anyone else,such a scabrous experience the watching of it was.

There’s a Poor Boy,whose father dwells in a chawl and lives out his football dreams through his talented son.

Divorcee. Archaic word,denoting a divorced woman,appearing in a certain kind of matrimonial ad.

Circa 2011,this is how Conan the Barbarian is born: In the middle of battle,his mother is attacked and her stomach cut open.

So did you really believe vampires were romantic creatures who communicated in soft undertones?

Cameron Diaz can make a good thing out of most things. But as much as you may smile at Bad Teacher here and there.

How desperate is this that the fourth edition of what began as an entertaining story is being sold on the strength of a sniff card?

Spoiler alert! I am about to tell you the story of this film!! Wait.

So a girl who helps her boyfriend chop up a temporary lover is one of those headlines which slap us in the face of a morning,and tell us that truth is,indeed,stranger than fiction.

This film is based on the “true account” of an Iraqi soldier who was forced to fill in as the double of Saddam Hussein’s elder son,Uday.

Amongst the lessons I learned while watching Phhir was this: that old skeletons smell.