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Harry Potter movie series down the line- evolution or devolution Article by zulfi             When Harry Potter sprung onto the scene of Hollywood in 2001, it was an age when there were a lot of possibilities for VFX movies. VFX was quickly evolving and in fact turning the corner. In fact the whole decade of 1990’s was influential in taking the next step in making movies concerned with graphics. Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park were path-breaking in this genre. The former still looks like a fresh piece of sci-fi movie. Its authentication was mostly relied on its originality and James Cameron’s visionary approach. Same was the case with Jurassic Park. Many such movies resulted in this epoch. Notable offshoots were ‘Independence day’, ‘Anaconda’, ‘Godzilla’, ‘Hollow Man’, ‘Species’ and what not. Kids and elders were especially entranced with this new slew of visual presentation. And when the decade ended and a new one star...

Fargo (TV Mini series)- season 1. Review by Zulfi             (spoilers ahead)             There is an introductory line before the start of every episode in the TV series Fargo (both season 1 and 2) that the events depicted in the show have actually occurred in real life. The best thing that happened to me while I watched it was that I took the line as had been stated. I really thought the events were based on true events while they weren’t. I came to know they were pure fiction at the start of the second season. My ignorance in the earlier stages added to the awe, I had for Fargo. There are so many perfect coincidences and thrilling cruxes in the storylines, which makes Fargo, one of the best mini-series on telly in recent times.             The series is produced by Coen brothers, Noah Crawley (who did ...

24 Review by zulfi Rating (1.5/5)             Vikram Kumar’s ‘24’ (telugu dubbed tamil movie) is amateurish at the best. Since the start of the movie, he treats us to a mindless gimmick of time travel, which I can’t help but criticize. The concept isn’t novel, neither is the treatment. This isn’t the first movie on time travel and as it is the time of to and fro moving screenplay, he tries to create some inquisitiveness regarding interplay of sequence of actions, which he fails miserably.             In addition to that, the performances of the actors aren’t something to write home about. Suriya’s scientist performance depicts a very docile persona with compensated overgrown intelligence. He doesn’t foresee his brother’s villainous moves when he is on the verge of creating history in time travel. The foolishness comes when his smart son decides on his father’...

King Kong Movie analysis by Zulfi             At the end of the movie, a character announces, ‘it wasn’t airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast’, looking at the giant fallen hero, Kong.             Peter Jackson’s ‘King Kong’ is an out and out romance movie. It may drip with pulsing action sequences, deep, dark forests of lost world and forgotten prehistoric reptiles, cascading one after the other over gorges and valleys, but everything is underplayed by Kong’s attraction with Ann Darrow. And underplaying Jackson’s well crafted action sequences is done by only one man, Jackson himself. You may argue that half the movie is saturated with brutal set pieces of thrashing and falling, splintering and breaking, but it won’t change the fact that it is a romance movie. Why? I will come to that point in a moment.         ...

Captain America : Civil war Review by Zulfi                 Captain America civil war is a misnomer. You can call it avengers extended or avegners recruited. The number count for avengers has risen to the largest in this movie and by the looks of it, it may even increase. There is some section of fan on the internet who have been lamenting over the exclusion of spidey from avengers. Their agony will be sated as the little fella gets a look in and a decent look in that too. There many other fellows like Black Panther, Winter soldier, Vision, Falcon, Antman and who knows, even Sharon carter. You never know.                 You may think that the screen time won’t be ample for the whole characters to properly introduce and establish them. And probably there Anthony and Joe Russo score well. You could see all these char...

Batman Begins Review by Zulfi             As much as many consider ‘Dark Knight’ to be a timeless classic, ‘Batman Begins’ deserves its due credit and consideration to be rated as one of the best superhero movie of all times. While dark knight is more about the strong psyches of three different morally opinionated people, ‘batman begins’ has the best plot of the trilogy. It is not only a budding stage for the evolution of the next two movies but also the spirit of the whole franchise. As much as batman was one of the popular comic characters, Nolan’s fusion of his psychological take on the caped crusader made him the most loved one of the comic world.             Every superhero has pathos. It becomes the pivot for his turning into his alter-ego. It is so easy when you have some deficiencies in the character which makes him motivated to become a vigilante. Some ot...

The Revenant Review by zulfi                 The evolution of man has taken place against all the odds. The fragile physique of a human had been shielded from a lot of external agents to get to what it is now. Weather, the cruel and biting of all these agents, had been fought by a human body to survive itself into this epoch or era. Early man in his fur clad exterior to a modern person wearing technologically virtuous custom made shoe for meeting all the quotients of comfort had taken a giant leap. ‘The revenant’ describes this giant leap. But in a retrospective way.                 In its heart, Revenant is a survival movie. This survival instinct hadn’t just been limited to the physical angle but had been extended to include the psyche. The movie is loosely based on a frontiersman struggle to make it back to the civilizati...