Django Unchained

Dir: Quentin Tarantino
Year: 2012

QT does Bollywood & how. Nearly 3 hours of the legend of Seigfried meets Westerns meets Rajneekanth meets B flicks, this is the complete potbolier. Lots of blood is splattered, beautiful & delicate damsels in distress wait to be rescued by knights in cowboy boots, & the ultimate triumph of the underdog over the evil oppressors. What more could one ask for?

The Mothman Prophecies

Dir: Mark Pellington
Year: 2002

A story about supernatural phenomena that links one man grieving the death of his wife with the people in a small town, this is quite an interesting plot if you are into that kind of stuff. It disappoints in the end with an abrupt and quite predictable climax. Boasts a good cast but cinematography is reminiscent of movies from 2 decades ago.

A Serious Man

Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Year: 2009

I found it hard to keep up with this film at first, it starts slow, boasts all of the Coen's brand of bland, almost square cinematography, and the story isn't anything that gabs you by the balls, but let me assure you that your balls will be grabbed & twisted, albeit gently, by the time the film ends. It is funny, with the typical Coen brothers' humor, just leaves you with a smirk & maybe shifting uneasily in your seat, and is full of irony. The screenplay is brilliant & the acting is very good, what else do you need. And let me correct myself for saying that the cinematography is all bland, it is not, there will be sudden bursts of almost surreal sequences to just break the monotony. In fact the film starts off with one such sequence, which has practically nothing to do with the rest of the film, apart from maybe act as a pointer towards what to expect. The climax is worth waiting for.

I give it:  7.5 on 10