The final harry potter

Yes harry potter dies, ok sort of(actually he doesnt really die.....read the book for further explanations) This is the darkest and most disturbing compared to the previous books. buts alls well that ends well....voldemort dies, but so does ...dont read ahead if you havent read the book yet.....fred, lupin,snape and to my greatest dismay, tonks. everything is wrapped up nicely, except for luna. we never know how her life turns out to be...although seeing the predictable happily ever after. she also would be living somewhere nice, married and with kids going to hogwarts. a lot of history is explained and a lot of people turn out to be not so bad after all.

Not that im complaining about the "happily ever after" if it had ended with any of the trio being killed...i would have been emotionally scarred for life...or atleast emotionally scarred for a month or maybe two.

Gravediggers Daughter - Joyce Carol Oates

It tears you apart but you cant tear your eyes off the pages. The chronicle of a girl born in New york harbor, on a ship from Germany, filled with fleeing refugees. This is as real as life, not a tale of conquests or rising against the odds, but a story of pure survival. Her father's job as a gravedigger and her mothers not so gradual decline portrayed with heartbreaking clarity. She grows up, becomes a wife - albeit a battered one, a mother and then a fugitive,. hiding from her past and herself. It even got me thinking (a rare occurance, i assure you) if she had been given the gift of her history, the story of what she could be if she wasn't the grave diggers daughter, an understanding of her past, she would have got the dignity to face life a little better. But then that is the beauty of this book, it shows human frailties without apology.

minority report

When criminals are caught before they commit the crime, are they accountable or do they have a choice when their destiny is already predicted?? This Steven Speilberg movie has Tom Cruise as a policeman in the precrimes division. When he is accused of a precrime, to what lengths must he go to avoid his destiny and can he avoid it? Superb vision of the future and nailbiting sequences make this a movie that has speilberg written all over it.

blades of glory 2007

Will Farell all the way. crude jokes and unreal people take center stage. A world where Will Farell is a sex god with women throwing their underwear at him is a skewed world indeed. The confused teenager from Napolean dynamite plays a confused man and arch rivel of our will in what else but figure skating. when they are banned from the sport for fighting in public, they combine forces to compete in the figure skating competition which is currently ruled by will arnett and sis.

i was watching this movie in texas and the crowd laughed out aloud for every joke in the movie...even the not so funny ones, but when an old president and his forbidden love joke came along, nobody laughed, except yours truly!!! is texas more patriotic or was it because that particular dear president was killed in this state. anyways leave your brains behind in order to enjp this movie.

Born into brothels 2004

Sometimes there comes along a movie that moves you so much that you realise the true power of the moving picture. Here is a movie that leaves you in love with the characters. Zana is a photographer in calcutta's red light district, she befriends and teaches photography to the kids. And what kids!!! you fall in love with them from the moment they come on screen. Their hopes, their life and ultimately their shattered dreams.

I was moved and even worse ashamed, every person trying to do good in this documentary was a foreigner. the people running the schools to the photographer trying to showcase their plight. Please watch it...you might be shaken enough to do something or at the least be thankful for the little things that you took for granted.

the shooter

Well it is a testosterone filled movie with Mark Walberg and Danny Glover. full of sniper shooting and a teeny weeny bit of 'oil is evil' preaching. Its not one of the best of is genre but its ok watching. it falls down somewhere in between being an action flick and a preachy action flick. Watch it if you dont have anything better to do..

The savage garden- Mark Mills

It was a book i took out of the library without knowing anything about the author or the story, and i was pleasantly surprised. Its a murder mystery with history. It was easy reading and the visualisation was great. Although the story tended towards the over dramatic at times, it was welcome breath of fresh air into my usually blood and gore filled choices. Set in Italy with a century old murder and a beautifull garden with a bloodthirsty beginning.

Well if you didnt understand what the heck i was talking about in the previous paragraph.....an italian guy murders his wife and builds a garden in her memory with clues to the murder. cool plot aint it..thats not all, his descendants also have some blood on their hands, plus there is a mysterious grandma and the beautifull scarred woman. all of this is solved and romanced by an english student. And it has a happy ending!

Possible side effects - Augusten Burroughs

If you have read Running with Scissors, you will be familiar with Burroughs method of making horrendous life experiences sound funny (atleast i think so) This book is a series of experiences (filled with his special brand of sarcastic masala ofcourse) not in exact chronological order. Since i have a teeny weeny bit of advertising experience, his chapters on those were relatable and hilarious. Plus ofcourse his mad mother, his dog, his messy(understatement) apartment, his partner and his hatred for dolls (which i share with him) Read it on a rainy afternoon and you will be laughing out loud and getting horrified in succesion.

PS: his writing does have gay written all over it, that certain brand of sarcastic, cruel humour that unfortunately i relate with them (is it a form of defence i wonder). which is good in a few books but will not keep him in the writing business for long. at this point i would like to say i am not homophobic or dislike homosexuals. people who know me will know its just the opposite (wink wink)

leon (1994)

If you want to see the brilliance of Natalie Portman this is the movie to see. She steals every frame she is in. Luc Besson manages to combine action and a controvertial love story, that between a 12 yr old and a hired assasin. (can it get wierder?) Jean Reno is more comfortable in the action scenes managing to convey some emotion in the other scenes, but is overshadowed by the fiesty natalie portman. watch it for pure timepass purposes.


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