Articles Written by Gopal
Tartarus (2004) Movie Review
To fairly review a micro-budget horror film, one must approach it with a different set of standards than those reserved for the typical studio production. Nit picking over production values and special effects quality would be a waste of print, since budgetary constraints preclude such luxuries. Rather, we need to see if the film brings [...]
July 23rd, 2006 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Proposition (2005) Movie Review
“Australia . What fresh hell is this?” So ponders the grizzled Captain Morris Stanley (Ray Winstone, “Sexy Beast”), a British Colonial Marshall, as he casts his gaze over the uncompromising and barren wasteland we now know as the Australian Outback. After a nasty gunfight, Stanley has managed to capture two members of the infamous Burns [...]
June 13th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005) Movie Review
Documentaries should always be approached with a grain of salt already in hand. While they always purport to tell ‘the truth’ about their subjects, they invariably choose a side and rely on generous helpings of embellishment to make their point. The crazy genius has always been an easy target for such films, as a quick [...]
April 29th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreSilent Hill (2006) Movie Review
Over the years there have been many movies adapted from other media such as cartoons, comic books and TV shows. The latest alternative media format to get the Hollywood treatment is the video game. Popular games like Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, House of the Dead, Resident Evil and Doom have all [...]
April 25th, 2006 | Gopal | 1 Comment | Read MoreV for Vendetta (2006) Movie Review
The year is 2020 and the world is in turmoil. The US has collapsed into civil war brought about by plague, while across the pond Great Britain has fallen under the iron grip of a fascist, Christian conservative regime led by the domineering High Chancellor Sutler (John [...]
March 20th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreCapote (2005) Movie Review
Truman Capote was already a household name in 1959, having written “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” when he boarded a train to Holcomb , Kansas to investigate the brutal massacre of a farm family by two drifters. What began as research for an article for New Yorker magazine turned into a [...]
February 22nd, 2006 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreMemoirs of a Geisha (2005) Movie Review
Seeing a movie after you’ve read the book it’s based on is a dangerous proposition for a viewer. Similarly, making a movie based on a popular book is an equally dangerous proposition for a director. Such is the case with reviewing “Memoirs of a Geisha,” based on Arthur Golden’s bestselling novel of the same name, [...]
February 1st, 2006 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreNeighbor No. 13 (2005) Movie Review
Bullying is an ugly reality of growing up that most of us can relate to, either as culprits or victims, but we usually grow out of it when we finish elementary school, or for some others, high school. However, in some cases the harassment extends beyond the schoolyard and into a person’s adult life, resulting [...]
January 8th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreAshura-jo no Hitomi (2005) Movie Review
There’s something to be said for the power of the imagination, and never is it more necessary to appreciate the visual arts than when watching a stage play, where, when well performed, the action on stage spurs the viewer’s imagination to fill in the details that the props leave out. Now what would a fantasy [...]
December 23rd, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read MoreSyriana (2005) Movie Review
After a major US oil company loses a lucrative bid for the rights to virgin oil fields in Kazakhstan , an unknown upstart oil exploration firm swoops in to snatch up those same rights at bargain prices. Shortly thereafter, the major oil company buys out the upstart, [...]
December 14th, 2005 | Gopal | 0 Comments | Read More
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