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Quarantine [trailer]: Cloverfield style horror flick: Oct 08
Wednesday, 9 Jul, 2008 – 16:04 | View Comments
Quarantine [trailer]: Cloverfield style horror flick: Oct 08

Seems handheld camera movies [first-person] have become a horror-norm after the successes of Blairwitch and Cloverfield. Now we have another one coming in October 2008 called Quarantine. The trailers have sprung up with Cloverfield style marketing ploy to lure the movie goers. Something in the apartment..is growling and is after the actors…hmmmm
 

 
..oh yeah its a [...]

Quantum of Solace-007 : Looks promising
Wednesday, 2 Jul, 2008 – 23:35 | View Comments
Quantum of Solace-007 : Looks promising

Quantum of Solace the new James Bond [007] movie trailer has just been released.The new flick looks very promising. Continuing from previous Casino Royale, this movie has dark tones, with tougher looking, hard hitting James Bond character. Will be releasing in November 007 08…till then enjoy the trailer..

Take120: iTunes Kuwait style
Thursday, 19 Jun, 2008 – 7:39 | View Comments
Take120: iTunes Kuwait style

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Take 120 seems to be a new service for Kuwait market offering iTunes style downloadable content from movies to music for a nominal fee. The content looks like Divx encoded and ofcourse there are no DRM issues here
There is a vast range of movies, tv shows, music in English, Hindi, [...]

Family Entertainment: Kung Fu Panda
Saturday, 17 May, 2008 – 3:07 | View Comments
Family Entertainment: Kung Fu Panda

This flick looks like a promising family entertainer with Jack Black, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie and Lucy Liu as voice overs for the various characters. All mythical kung-fu techniques like crane, tiger, mantis etc are actually portrayed by the characters from respective animal kingdom families. The movie release date [...]

Why do they play ‘Faith of Islam’ during athan/prayer time on FM stations?
Friday, 7 Mar, 2008 – 20:31 | View Comments
Why do they play ‘Faith of Islam’ during athan/prayer time on FM stations?

During the Athaan [prayer call] time, if you are tuned into any FM station in Kuwait apart from BBC, they all play Faith of Islam by Maurice Jarre from the movie ‘The Message‘. Why cant they play the Athaan itself? I mean there has to be some logical reason for this, so any ideas drop [...]

Amazing new Iron Man trailer: Beats Transformers hands down
Saturday, 1 Mar, 2008 – 2:35 | View Comments
Amazing new Iron Man trailer: Beats Transformers hands down

Official release date is May 2nd, 2008. This is one hell of a movie which will give other action flicks run for their money. Must watch on my list.
More downloadable formats here [LINK]

Bollywood back in Kuwait cinemas
Friday, 15 Feb, 2008 – 20:41 | View Comments
Bollywood back in Kuwait cinemas

Interesting..seems the dispute of Bollywood vs KNCC has been resolved. Well it was more of a dispute with distributor in UAE. Anyways Bolly-flicks are back in KNCC and the must see flick at this moment is Jodha Akbar. Only catch…KD 3.000/- per ticket!
KNCC [LINK]
Jodha Akbar [LINK]

I love the smell of sand in the morning..
Friday, 15 Feb, 2008 – 13:41 | View Comments
I love the smell of sand in the morning..

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If Robert Duval had been in Kuwait..his famous one liner in Apocalypse Now would be something like this..
You smell that? Do you smell that? Sand son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of sand in the morning.
..Say hello to spring Kuwaiti style!

RIP: Heath Ledger dead at 28
Wednesday, 23 Jan, 2008 – 7:42 | View Comments
RIP: Heath Ledger dead at 28

April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008
Australian born actor, Oscar nominated star of recent movies like Brokeback Mountain died last night. An apparent sleeping pills dosage with his health condition [pneumonia] was the cause. His death has been classified as accidental.
His last role would be as The Joker in the upcoming movie The Dark Knight [...]

What is Cloverfield? This is the Monster…SPOILERS
Monday, 14 Jan, 2008 – 15:25 | View Comments
What is Cloverfield? This is the Monster…SPOILERS

 
This is an artists impression of the monster from Cloverfield. The person had apparently been to a pre-screener of Cloverfield. More artwork from this link
Want to hear the Cloverfield monster’s scream?!
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
 

What is Cloverfield? A parasite inside humans…maybe
Monday, 17 Dec, 2007 – 14:05 | View Comments
What is Cloverfield? A parasite inside humans…maybe

..So the buzz of cloverfield is peaking now, as we approach 01-18-08 release date. The mega monster movie is creating all the good hype through viral marketing. Everyone who has watched the trailers seems intrigued by the monster. So here is my 2 cents in taking a shot at the guessing game. Well the [...]

Bollywood: No Smoking…a movie by a ’stoned’ director
Tuesday, 13 Nov, 2007 – 13:45 | View Comments
Bollywood: No Smoking…a movie by a ’stoned’ director

Rated [rate 2]
How do we put this delicately? The director [Anurag Kashyap] of No Smoking must have been eternally stoned while writing and directing this movie. Watching this movie is once in a lifetime opportunity to redeem yourself of all your sins that you might have committed by watching all the B-category C-Class movies.
The movie [...]

Bollywood movie trailers: No Smoking, Jodha Akbar, and Bhool Bhulaiya
Monday, 22 Oct, 2007 – 22:32 | View Comments
Bollywood movie trailers: No Smoking, Jodha Akbar, and Bhool Bhulaiya

No Smoking

Jodha Akbar

Bhool Bhulaiya

Remember Matrix? Wachowski Brothers? Meet sister Wachowski!
Thursday, 6 Sep, 2007 – 0:06 | View Comments
Remember Matrix? Wachowski Brothers? Meet sister Wachowski!

The Wachowski Brothers are the directorial guys behind the phenomenon of Matrix Trilogy, V for Vendetta and Assassins, and the upcoming hot ticket Speed Racer. One of the brothers Larry Wachowksi has had a sex change! Meet Lana Wachowski!!

More details here [LINK]