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The next Dan Brown mystery thriller after The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons again tells of an adventure by Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks). This time, it seems an ancient enemy of the catholic church – the Illuminati – have returned with the plan to destroy the Vatican with antimatter stolen from the […]

Rebooting franchises has become fashionable (see Superman, Batman, James Bond), and if there was another big franchise in dire need of a reboot, it was Star Trek. And reboot it did J. J. Abrams – with a bang. Arguably the best of the big screen-appearance of every geek’s favorite starship Enterprise, Abrams’ Star Trek should […]

In which the origin story of Wolverine is told, at which was already heavily hinted in the X-Men Trilogy. It begins rather interesting, with Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and his half-brother Victor/Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) growing up and fighting together in any American war from the Civil War through both World Wars and the Vietnam War. In […]

Fifty years ago, a time-capsule was buried at a school in Massachusettes. The children have drawn pictures of their visions of the future. But one of the envelopes does not contain a drawing – strange girl Lucinda Embry’s (Lara Robinson) message to the future is a piece of paper covered with numbers. The receiver is […]

How did Jamal K. Malik (Ayush Mahesh Khedekar/Tanay Chheda/Dev Patel), a boy from the slums of Mumbai, reach the last round of India’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (A) He cheated, (B) He’s lucky, (C) He’s a genius, (D) It is destiny. Gameshow host Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor) is convinced Jamal cheated […]