Haunting of Winchester House Movie Review | silentcritics.com

Movies that belong to the horror genre tends to be of two types wherein the first one will be really spooky with some scary stuff and the second one will be such that the intended horror will neither terrify you nor jerk you out of your seat. Movies in the first category would be worth the money but the major spoiler would be the ones that fall in the second category and that is where this “Haunting of Winchester House” falls in. The movie from the beginning fails to scare the viewer and also the sequence of events are quite predictable. If the director Mark Atkins thought that the ending might be a surprise to the audience he has got it all wrong as such endings have been repeated in lot of horror movies before. Read More

Moon Movie Review | silentcritics.com

“Moon” directed by debutant Duncan Jones is a collection of imagination pertaining to the future where earth’s required energy source helium-3 is extracted from moon and sent across for humans to utilize it. This movie set in the genre of sci-fiction stands out from the crowd by virtue of sheer imagination and exemplary acting in the character of a lone man played by Sam Rockwell stationed in Moon to oversee the mining of helium-3. Director Duncan Jones has to be applauded for his spectacular effort in this “Moon”. Read More

500 Days of Summer Movie Review | silentcritics.com

“500 days of summer” is a movie which moves in a chronological order back and forth describing the romance between Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) a failed architect turned greeting card writer and Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) a new office associate at Tom’s office. Both Tom and Summer are different from each other but at the same time both get attracted after a few meetings. Tom is an average built person who has hardly any luck with love while Summer who does not believe in love but doesn’t mind being intimate with the person she likes. Read More

2012 Movie Review | silentcritics.com

Roland Emmerich has his unique way of story telling and he has been brilliantly handling subjects that needs lot of imagination and creativity. The man who gave the blockbuster “Independence Day” in the year 1996 followed it up with Godzilla (1998), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and the not so successful 10,000 BC (2008). The good thing about these movies are that they have been successful and at the same time it unleashed to the world the disasters that man had brought to mankind and also the pace at which these imaginative disasters could strike. Read More

This Is It Movie Review | silentcritics.com

On 25th June 2009 the entire world was shocked by the sudden demise of Pop legend Michael Jackson who was just 50 and that too at a time when his huge fan base were eagerly looking forward to his comeback concert in London. People world over couldn’t control their emotions when they came into terms with reality that their Iconic Michael Jackson can never be seen again. Read More

17 Again Movie Review | silentcritics.com

“17 Again” directed by Burr Steers is a fantasy tale which begins in the year 1989 when high school basketball sensation Mike O Donnell (Zac Erfon) who is about to play a match that could change his life forever with a scholarship that is waiting to be offered basis his performance in the match. Minutes before the start of the match Mike’s girl friend Scarlett (Allison Miller) meets him and informs that she is pregnant. Mike then decides that Scarlett is important does not play the match but decides to give up the lucrative scholarship to get married to Scarlett. Read More

A Thousand Splendid Suns Movie Review | silentcritics.com

‘There is a way to be good again’ wrote Khaled Hosseini, the resounding refrain that gently suggests redemption, in the Kite Runner. Redemption, he has no need of, as thousands of readers will agree, but he sure has lived up to that statement with his second novel ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’. Is it good? Yes. Is it splendid? Most definitely. It could’ve been a story about two struggling housewives during a war. And it is. But Hosseini has teased out the various layers that carefully make the housewives and their struggle so finely, that you cannot but feel that this is a story of valiant heroism, silent matyrdom and the infinite love the human spirit is capable of. Not that they require it, but the backdrop of the war only make them starker. Read More

Adhe Neram Adhe Idam Movie Review | silentcritics.com

Jai after a career enriching “Subramaniyapuram” and not so successful “Vaamanan” had to come up with something different and special to keep his career heading upwards and he chose this “Adhe Neram Adhe Idam” (Same Time Same Place) which has Vijayalakshmi of Anjathey fame for company. The movie from the promos tends to confuse you on whether this belongs to the thriller or romance genre and the confusion prevails almost for most part of the movie. Read More