Paranoia (2013) Film Review / Paranoia (2013) The Story

Paranoia (2013)

Thriller, Romance

This film stars Liam Hemsworth as Adam Cassidy , Harrison Ford as Jock Goddard and others.

Film directed by Robert Luketic,

Adam Cassidy, is an entry level employee with good skills stuck seeing his bosses take home tons of bonuses while he and his friends are still stuck with entry level salaries. He thinks gone are the days when u used to get a good degree and then get a good job easily. Things are not as easy these days when big multi billionaires make their employees stuck with low salaries for years and years.

He and his friends try to showcase a new genre mobile phone , but their proposal gets rejected. They all get fired! He finds a credit card accidentally in his stash of office stuff. That night they live it large at a pub using the credit card and Adam also ends up having sex with a girl.

Adam wakes up at her apartment. Afterwards he is called back by his boss's people who offers him a deal.
He has to work at the office of his boss's old friend ,who was his mentor too,and presently a big rival of his boss's company. This rival company was working on the launch of a new type of cell phone and Adam's boss wants him to spy on while he works in that company and get all the new technology that they are going to be using in that phone. Something like "stealing trade secret" . In return he will get paid huge, a job and also his friends' jobs will be given back. And if he doesn't , then they will be prosecuted for credit card fraud and sent to prison.

Adam who was stuck in debt due to his father's illness and no means to repay the amount he used up in the pub using the credit card , takes up the offer.

Slowly he realizes that with each day and his each step , he was getting more and more involved into a crime which even if he wanted , he couldn't come out. He tries leaving this whole thing and going to the FBI , but his house , his friends and even his girl friend was being tracked and traced every moment by his boss.

Finally he discovers that every aspect was being recorded in some way or the other between his boss and him , by none other than the women secretary that his boss had. She was actually working with the rival company run by Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford) .

Finding out both the bosses were into crimes , Adam secretly joins hands with the FBI taking help from his tech friends and unmasks both the bosses of the two companies. They are taken to prison and Adam too but Adam gets released shortly due to his co-operation with the FBI .

He and his friends start afresh a new company from scratch and he realizes that there are no shortcuts to the top.

 A very good movie , though IMDB rates it 4.9 / 10 , i really don't care! I enjoyed it. Good direction and good music too. A total thumbs up for the story!  And ofcourse , Liam is hot , :-P he shows off his body time and again in the film ;-P

I'd say a 3/5 ..

Here is a trailer but.. it's a must watch cuz u cant fig out the whole movie from the trailer! - Zinnia :)

The To Do List Movie Review

The To Do List
Cast : Aubrey Plaza as Brandy and others !
Director : Maggie Carey
Genre : Comedy, Drama

I can't vividly describe this movie in details. But i LUVED it ! It's about a girl who is kinda nerdy and then she learns that she has missed out on different sexual experiences which girls her age has already done!
So before hitting out to college , she writes down a list of "TO DO" sexual menu and sets out on experiencing them.

A very good movie, really funny and good acting.

STATUTORY WARNING  :   DON'T WATCH IT WITH UR PARENTS ! HEHE  :-D

3/5
Here is a trailer ;-)   Zinnia

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 Movie Review

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - 2

Genre : Animated , Sci Fi , Comedy
Voices : Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood and others
Director : Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn

I loved the first part of the movie and when i heard the next part has released, i couldn't wait to watch it.
The story starts with the previous story's flash backs.

In this new story when the news that an island has got burried in tons of food stuff from the skies , reached a scientist, he rushed down with his team to get the island cleared out .
While the people were away, the scientist wants to grab hold of the food making machine which was made by Flint.

The scientist , who was the manufacturer of a special kind of food bar, thinks of using the food that all fell from the skies into a new variation of an improved food bar because these food that Flint's machine was making was extremely tasty. By the time the people were away, ecosystem modifications took place and now the food machine was making food that were ALIVE!

There are huge cooked shrimps which moves like Shrimpan-zees , alive leeks , alive doughnuts, Bananas which run in herds and are known as Bananostriches (banana ostrich) ,friendly marsh mallows which float in packs, Potatoes which walk and act like hippopotamus , Pickles which fish out fishes and eat them, and Cheese spiders which are modified cheese burgers with french fry legs and sesame seed eyes and let's not forget the dinosaur head Tacos :-D . There are talking strawberries too.

So these are in short different types of characters that you will find in this movie. The evil scientist tries to kill them into making tasty toffee/food bars which he could sell for a much higher price and become rich. Flint in the mean time gets to know of his evil intentions and realizes that these new food animals are in fact friendly and need not be killed but PRESERVED!
He takes the help of these food animals , reunites with his friends and re-seizes the food machine. The scientist is eaten by a cheese spider and everyone of the food animals lives in that island happily ever after!

A very nice story for a animated film. Worth a watch with a bowl of popcorn!
3.5/5
Here is a trailer! :) Zinnia

Ender's Game Movie Review

 Ender's Game


Director - Gavin Hood

Cast : Asa Butterfield as Ender , Harrison Ford as Hyrum Graff and others .

The name sounds so cool. But the movie is a total waste of time. The story is about an alien invasion, where u don't really see any aliens. Even if you do , it's just one and it looks like a dragonfly or a mantid and it turns out to be friendly.
It's like to save the earth teenagers are trained in a simulated environment and Ender (yah i thought it means something else, it's actually the name of a boy )  turns out to be a complete fighter who thinks he can communicate with the aliens and stop them from invading because he keeps getting dreams and images in his tablet games.

In his last round of game after which he will become qualified for battlefield ( he is 15) he hits the total planet at it's core and destroys it. He thinks it's a simulation, until he is told that it was all real. He really destroyed the alien planet. He breaks down thinking if they wud have communicated , then may be he would have been able to stop the destruction and become friendly with the aliens.

He rushes out into the destructed planet, and saves a Queen alien who's mother communicates with him saying that she is dying and she wants the next queen alien to get a new home. He promises to seek out a new planet and give her a new home because he thinks it's his duty now since he unknowingly destroyed their planet and it's population.

He sets out on his journey to find a suitable habitat for the alien queen child and thats the end !

i'd say 2/5  not a movie that lives up to my  expectations at least !
Here is a trailer!  - Zinnia

The Lone Ranger Movie Review

The Lone Ranger

Genre : Comedy , Action
Director - Gore Verbinski
Cast : Johnny Depp as Tonto  ,Armie Hammer as John Reid and others 
Run time -149 mins

Johnny Depp is an exceptional actor without a doubt. Armie Hammer also shows off his nice comedy timing in this movie. This is a American Western Action Comedy Film.  This movie in itself is exceptionally directed. Johnny depp's acting is breath taking. In short this story revolves around Johnny's Depp (who is playing a red indian ) and his thirst to seek revenge out of a few old american English men. These men tricked him by giving him a cheap watch and luring him to tell them about a secret mountain which had silver. These men not just got to the place of the silver but also so that no one else knows about this place , they killed johnny Depp's full tribe who used to live in that area. Wen Johnny returned home , he finds all his people dead, and a dead crow too in the water. He carries this crow on his head for years as a symbol of the incident.

For years Johnny seeking revenge tried to find out about these 2 men. At last he meets a Ranger , who was very much inclined on to law. In time the Ranger's brother gets killed and he comes to know all the high official railway people were involved in it. He leaves the side of law and joins hands with Johnny Depp. They take revenge in the most awesome of ways.

It's in short about the story. But the full flavor lies in watching it with your own eyes. So i'd not go into detailing. Anyone can watch this movie, and there is obviously a lot of action scenes.

i'd say a hands down 4/5  really good movie and a movie which will last for years to come ! -Zinnia
Here is a trailer

Mean Girls Movie Review

MEAN GIRLS :

This is one of my very favorite movies under the comedy drama genre. This movie might be old but still stands so special for all pretty girls out there. I was searching for more women based movies to watch in Hollywood and Bollywood and I got this (y). Recently I got a bit crazy over girls teen comedy movies more than the horror stuffs :P may be like, I am becoming a girl at last :D :D  And this movie is based on the book QUEEN BEES AND WANNABES by ROSALIND WISEMAN which talks about high school girl’s gang and their life in high school and also its effect on girls!

This movie has got an IMDB rating of 6.8/10 which is pretty good and has got 83% of Rotten Tomatoes.

DIRECTED BY: MARK WATERS

PRODUCED BY: LORNE MICHAELS

DISTRIBUTED BY: PARAMOUNT PICTURES

STARRED BY: LINDSAY LOHAN, RACHEL McADAMS, AMANDA SEYFRIED, JONATHAN BENNET.

The movie starts with Cady’s parents advising her about how to be safe at school. I seriously thought it is a 5 year old standing in front of them :P but then it was 16 year old Cady. Because she has been Homeschooled all these days in Africa because her father was on a research trip for 12 years there and she had never studied in a real school before, so her parents were cautious. They all returned back to America now. She went to the school and befriended Janis and Damien on the first day.  They tells her a lot about the school and every girl’s gang out there in the school and one of it were the most famous clique called “Plastics”. Every clique has a Queen Bee whereas Regina George is the Queen Bee for the plastics! Janis warns Cady to stay out of plastics particularly Regina George, since she had a bad flash back with her, where Regina on their 8^th grade started a rumor that Janis was a Lesbian :P :P

On the lunch hour, Plastics called Cady and asked her to sit with them, when she was little hesitated Regina comforted her talking about Cady’s mother made bracelet. They invited her to befriend them, hearing all these Janis made a plan against Regina using Cady and she dint agree at first. She started falling for Aaron Samuels who is a classmate with her on Math class and later comes to know that he was Regina’s eye-candy and she broke with him lately for no reason. One of the plastics Gretchen Wieners who is with Regina for a long time, and who is jealous of Regina’s relationships with her other girlfriends, comes to know about it. She promises Cady that she won’t say a word about Cady liking Aaron to Regina but later she encloses it to Regina and she promises Cady that she would talk about it to Aaron since they are still good friends and help Cady on the Halloween’s party. But instead she gained back Aaron out of jealous and told Aaron that Cady is trying to do some African Voodoo on him to get him as her boy friend. Cady saw Regina and Aaron kissing at the Halloween’s party and out of rage accepted Janis’ offer to buy a tit for tat on Regina.

Cady comes to know about the Plastic’s “Burn Book”, which has most of the school people’s pictures and below that some scribbles, may be like rumors, secrets and all dirty secrets about the person. Janis showed Cady a plan which makes Regina nothing, by snatching her eye candy Aaron from her, separating the other plastics from Regina and spoiling her physical figure which she literally adores. She came to know that Regina have been cheating on Boy friend through the in secured Gretchen and says that to Aaron at his home, when she showed up like so weak in math and asked for his help and he agreed to teach her math at his home. He then broke up with Regina. Cady tricked Regina into eating weight gaining candy bars saying that it helps to loose weight and she gains a lot of weight and got disfigured. And also she turned out the sweet, stupid and rich Karen and Gretchen against Regina at a point and now Regina’s main resources are all cut off. Now Cady had become the Queen Bee of the plastics and in this process she almost forgot Damien and Janis who got irritated by her activities of herself becoming a plastic.

On a party arranged by Cady, Janis and Damien broke up with her since she doesn’t invite them and she became a total plastic and Aaron broke up with her since she revealed that she is very good at math and just to spend time with him she showed that she is weak in math and requested his help and throwed up on him :P Regina came to know about her all tricks Cady did to bring her down and holds a grudge against her. Regina then used the “Burn Book” against Cady by pasting her own picture and scribbles and showed it to the principal of the high school saying the only people who are not there in the book were the plastics so it has to be created by them. The principal gathered all the girls in the school auditorium for the enquiry, where the math teacher who was mentioned as a drug dealer in the book, because she insisted Cady to join math league since she is good at math and Cady got irritated by it, started the enquiry with the principal;. She asked all the other students who are mentioned in the burn book to accept and apologize their secrets and rumors so that the burn book wont be a big deal!

When Janis’ turn comes she apologized every plan they had to bring down Regina with the help of Cady.  Cady went to apology Regina but she bursted out at her and walked on the street just to get hit by the School bus Land broke her spine. Everyone started distrusting Cady and now she is all alone. Math teacher have been called to local police enquiry and they got search warrant since she was mentioned as the drug dealer, before the cops could do anything about it, Cady took the whole responsibility of the Burn book and have been grounded. And the math teacher requested her to join the math league and this time, Cady agreed! There she had to compete with an ugly girl at the final stage and realized that there is no use in irritating the girl with her appearance, she would still beat Cady. The only solution to beat her is to solve the problem. At the final minute, the other girl told the wrong answer and the answering opportunity came to Cady and she answered right and won the Mathlete.

The same day they had the prom and spring fling dance where Cady had been elected as the Queen, but she broke the Tiara and gave all girls including Regina a piece and declared, she don’t mind about the Tiara anymore and after all, its just a plastic JThen she reconciles with her friends Janis and Damien and apologized to them and Aaron patched up with her looking at her change.    

By the start of the next year, things have been changed, where Regina joined the Lacrosse team, Gretchen joined the “cool Asians” gang, Karen became the school weather reporter and Aaron got admission in Middlesex University and moving there for higher studies. Janis started a relationship with Kevin, from the Mathlete. But this new plastics from the juniors have been evolved and while crossing the road got hit by the school bus. OOPS…. It was just Cady’s imagination :P :P

This was the story and I just loved the cinematography JI personally rate it 8 out of 10

I recommend this movie to aLl teens and particularly to girls who loves high school teen movies like me.. This one is yet another good movie in my list! Have a nice day! Do give a thumbs up if you like the review and leave your comment below J Love you all <3 Take care ! -Suchitra

Here is a trailer of Mean Girls 

Krrish 3 Movie Review and Story Gist

Krishh 3 -Movie Review

Director - Rakesh Roshan
Runtime - 152 mins
Genre - Sci fi
Cast : Hritik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra , Kangana Ranaut, Vivek Oberoi, and others

  Hope all of u had a safe Diwali ..

 Well i dont really do Bollywood movie reviews, but this was a big budget and very talked about movie for the Diwali .. so i watched it and here is my review :-D

Krishna(Hrithik Roshan) and priya ) Priyanka Chopra) are happily married and Rohit Mehra works in a lab as a scientist. Rohit's mother ( played by Rekha ) has passed away already. In the meantime there is a virus outbreak in Namibia ,and the one who made it is Kaal ( Vivek oberoi) .Kaal creates viruses and does the outbreak in countries till a certain amount of population dies so that he can sell the antidote . This is his policy of making money . His next target is India. He sends mutants ( one of whom is a frog man and one is a lizard which can change it's form which is played by Kangana Ranaut) .

Lots of people get affected in mumbai but Rohit sees that Krish , Priyanka (who was carrying krish's child at that time ) and he himself were not affected by the outbreak. He understands that their blood can create the antidote. So he injects Krishna with the virus and creates the antidote. The outbreak gets under control.

Kaal is surprised at this that the antidote which could only be created by his blood , how did that go down to mumbai? He sends his mutant team down to check this out. They find out Rohit's home address and priyanka gets hit on the head and looses senses. When they try to kill rohit , krishna appears and saves him.

From the hospital it is reported that priyanka has lost her child and in the meantime ,kangana changes her form to priyanka's form and takes her place in Rohit's hosue to find out how they made the antidote. The real Priyanka is taken hostage !

Rohit has already created a pen which can use solar energy in it's magnified form with mirror reflections and can bring dead things back to life. This was in experimentation stage and he was still testing this on plants. But due to excessive energy the plants would blast before totally coming to life. It needed an absorber to use only that much energy as was needed .

Rohit goes to singapore to find out abt the virus outbreak in mumbai. There he gets to know that when Dr Arya captured him , he used his DNA to make a boy child who would have his brain powers . Unfortunately the boy turned out to be a totally handicapped boy , brain and only 2 fingers working. He couldnt even move his body. So they finding him useless, left him at the door of an orphanage . From here he got adopted by a rich man. He turned out to be Kaal , who could do anything with the  power of his brains.  But he coudlnt move any other muscle of his body. He would roam around in a wheel chair. He was searching for that specific bone marrow which could make him walk and move his other body parts because then he would become immensely powerful. So he has been creating mutants with animal DNA and his own blood , bt till now he has not found one mutant to have that bone marrow that he wants ,

Meanwhile Rohit is taken hostage and he faces his biological child , Kaal. Kaal threatens that either he will take his bone marrow or his grand child's . In the meantime , kangana falls in love with krishhna, and Krishna finds out the truth about kangana . Kangana shifts sides and decides to help krrish.She  takes him to priyanka.

Krrish saves priyanka and brings her back home . He then goes back to save Rohit. Kaal has already taken his bone marrow and he was very powerful .Bending and breaking steel plates he has also created a new suit for himself.

Kaal and Krrish come face to face and Kaal kills kangana and then smashes Krishh. Krishh Dies. While Kaal sets out to threaten the world, Rohit uses his pen to magnify solar energy and brings Krrish back to life. So that Krishh's body doesnt become dust due to excess heat , Rohit sacrifices himself acting as an absorber of excess heat and dies. Krrish comes back to life.

Krishh heads out towards the city to save the people and priyanka . There is a face off between Kaal and Krrish until Krrish drives a few iron bars into Kaal. When he thinks Kaal is dead, Kaal drives an iron rod through Krishh. While Krishh is injured and dying , he takes that solar pen out and flies off towards the sun. Now standing up in the sky , he uses the glass windows of the buildings as mirror and uses their reflection to magnify solar energy from the sun using his pen. He points the high energy beam at Kaal and since there is no absorber between the rays and the object (Kaal) , Kaal gets burnt to dust.

Well thats about the story , mumbai is saved once again :-P

Quite a good story , but kind of clumsy.. the things i found faulty and funny
1. The mutants didnt have enough space to play around and show their powers.. it could have been more fun..

2. The frog man stealing ice cream scoops from ice cream cones of the local public and getting caught by Krrish , was TERRIBLY STUPID.. guess Kaal didnt feed his mutants ICE CREAMS :-P

3. Songs are good but mixed with old songs of the prequels ..so nothing special..

4. Film may seem good to ones who don't really watch much of Hollywood stuff , but for people who watched X-Men, transformers ,Resident Evil- Retribution , Spiderman (New) , etc they will find GRAVE SIMILARITY between those films and Krrish 3 .

 (Kaal is like Professor X moving in wheel chair, and mutants , are somewhat X-men copied ) , Transformers -3 ( Collision of buildings , etc . ) , Virus outbreak resembled the virus outbreak simulation of Resident Evil Retribution, How Rohit made the antidote spread with air blast missiles ( watever they were :-P ) resembled Similar DNA modification control of The new Spiderman movie..and so on..

5. Kangana's falling in love with Krishna knowing Priyanka is his wife , was stupid.. and then suddenly changing sides.. was kinda awkward..

6. There could have been more comedy input with Rajpal Yadav in the film, but it HEAVILY LACKED it !

7. Kaal's SUIT WAS SOOO STUPID .. ok.. it sorta represents "destruction" all that broken pieces of materials.. stuck on his body.. but it looked STUPID...especially the front helmet .. :-D like he became Kaal and came running from some baseball game.. :-P hehe

8. The dialogues .. LOL  !!!!! SERIOUSLY BOLLYWOOD ..  "insaan hona meri kamzori nahi , meri taqat hain , kioki mere paas hain har baap ka ashirwad aur har bachhe ka pyaar " :-D really funny :-P but yes then again , normal Indian audience luves it :-P

Here is a trailer.. good movie, worth a watch definitely but ....Not upto my expectations may be because i watch too much Hollywood movie but yes definitely a breakthrough for Indian Cinema
I'd rate it 4/5

i'll go get some ice cream :P hope no frogman steals it ;-)  Zinnia

Gravity (2013) Movie Review

Gravity (2013) movie review

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Running time: 91 minutes

Budget: 80 million USD

Cast: George Clooney, Sandra Bullock

Screenplay: Alfonso Cuarón, Jonas Cuaron

Genre : science fiction , adventure , thriller 

 

A breath taking space adventure. It depicts some stunning outer space real like visuals which words fail to describe. This is one film which is like something that you have never seen before. A must must must watch for all of you out there.

It shows strive for survival after a space shuttle wreckage in outer space. The whole film has two known stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. Both of their acting is marvelous. 

Imdb has rated it 8.7 out of 10

My rating out of 5 would be a 4.9/5  

The first 15 minutes were kind of boring , but then the real action starts and there not a single moment when you can shift your eyes from the screen. 

a total thumbs up :) - Zinnia

Here is a sneak peak of the trailer ..

Dark Skies Movie Review

DARK SKIES 2013 - Movie Review and Full Story

An Alien abduction kind of movie after a long time, I would say. It is a scientific horror kind of movie with a very good twisted ending which mainly attracts horror lovers like me more. The main thing about this movie is that it is not a stupid alien movie. It’s based on scientific techniques which makes the movie stand out in the crowd of other alien based movies.

Written and Directed by: scott stewart

Produced by: JasonBlum, Couper Samuelson, Jeanette Brill

Main Cast: Keri Russel, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, Kadan Rockett

Released on: February 22, 2013

Trailer :

The Story :

The movie shows about a family of 4, a mother Lacy, father Daniel and their 2 sons Jesse and Sammy living together. Lacy and Daniel’s marriage was on rocks because of their financial situation and they always used to fight due to that. Lacy is a real estate dealer and Daniel don’t have a job but trying to get one. Whereas Jesse and Sammy used to talk to each other via walkie talkie from their room, in order to console Sammy who gets upset due to their parents fight. Jesse tells him the horror stories about the Sandman who throws dirt on children’s eyes and makes their eyes fall and collects and feeds it to his children. When Sammy got frightened and asked his brother, if Sandman comes to collect his eyes, he consoled Sammy by saying that Sammy’s eyes were pretty small so he would come and collect his own instead.

Daniel attended an interview but he was never selected. But he said a lie that he might get select to Lacy which later she comes to know and that triggers another fight. They both were very stressed due to their financial crisis and even were thinking about cutting some extra bills out of TV cable and burglary alarm. But then very weird incidents started to happen in their home, such as all the kitchen stuffs were arranged as a stack and a weird symbol was projected on the ceiling as the reflection. Lacy saw that and asked Sammy if he did it, but Sammy replied that the Sandman did it before meeting him. But Lacy thought he must have been speaking about a dream.

The next day an officer visits their home to check on it and confirmed that no forced entry has been made, so it must have been done by someone in the house itself, particularly the kids. But advised Daniel to set back the burglary alarm as it is worth the money. Lacy takes her clients to the home she supposed to sell to whom she talks about his first son Jesse, who used to be very sick when he was a kid and all right now. That night when Daniel and Lacy were fighting the burglary alarm rings but Daniel received a call saying that it must be a false alarm. But they noticed that all the pictures from their show case frames were removed and empty. The officer again said it must be the work of kids, but when Daniel and Lacy talked to the kids Sammy said that was the Sandman again but the Sandman asked him not to tell anyone about it, later Jesse tells him that the Sandman is an illusion not real. When Daniel mistakes that Sammy took the photos and in order to cover up his guilt he is using the name of Sandman he goes and searches for the photos in Sammy’s room but never get it. Lacy was worried about Sammy and asks Daniel to take him for a psychiatric therapy session but he denies talking about their financial situation.

The next day Daniel takes Sammy to a park where in the midst of other kids Sammy pees on his pants and starts screaming without his knowledge. Lacy at home, was informed about it and she sees a drawing of Sammy about a child holding hands of a humanoid, when a group of birds came and attacked their home like they were pulled towards their home and died. People came and collected those birds, and informed that they were three different flocks from three different directions. Came and hit the home as if they were pulled towards it. That night Lacy went to Sammy’s room listening to him talking to someone, but saw a humanoid figure beside his bed but when she switched on the light she found no one there and she started searching for Sammy and Daniel joins her. They found Sammy outside their home and he says he don’t remember about coming out of the house.

The next day Daniel fixes surveillance camera throughout the house in order to make sure what is wrong. He wakes up near the computer and rewinds and plays the video captured by the surveillance camera but saw some disturbance in between. The next day Lacy went out of mind when she was with a client and banged her head on the glass door and wakes up in her home and found that she lost 6 hours. She was asked to stay at home till she becomes all right by her higher official and this makes her upset. There she started to search on the answers for all these weird incidents happening to them on internet and got an answer as they have been visited by the Aliens. At the same time Daniel gets a job and they both celebrate it, but that night Daniel goes out of mind and stood in the middle of their backyard with his mouth wide opened. He saw it all on the surveillance camera but says he don’t remember anything. Then Lacy tells him what she found but he did not accept it and says it was crazy. She also tells him about a 5 year old kid who drawn a picture of him holding hands with an alien along with 2 other aliens just before he vanished. And also showed another picture which resembles the same but was drawn by Sammy. Daniel was not convinced and promised her that he will take care of things and asked her not to panic. The next day when Sammy was with Lacy’s friend Karen’s family went to swimming with them but she notices marks on Sammy’s body at the same time Jesse had a nervous breakdown when he was playing with his friend Ratner. The doctor found some marks on Jesse too which they mentioned as some marks applied with a brand.

They informed the Child protective service as a precaution. Daniel beats up Ratner thinking he did those marks to Jesse and everyone started thinking that Daniel is going psycho. Daniel notices that the disturbance in the video, when played slow shows 3 humanoid figures standing beside the bed of each person of the family and started believing Lacy. They meet Edwin Pollard who is a specialist, and talks about their problem. Edwin says that the aliens visiting them are referred to as ‘The Grays’, and many had already been visited by them and all these resulted in abduction. Edwin asks them several questions and tell them that they must probably already have implants through which the Humanoids controls them, makes them see which is not true and alarm ringing in their head kind of stuffs. Lacy sees a wall full of missing children’s pictures due to alien abduction on Edward’s home and worries about her children. Edward also tells them that the Aliens would abduct the one with whom they first made contact with and asked them all to stick together which is a way to avoid abduction, which have succeeded in certain cases.

Daniel buys a gun and covers up all the windows and doors where Lacy buys an aggressive dog as a prevention measure. It was on the Independence Day night and when the kids wished to see the fireworks Daniel switched on the TV and they were all talking about the kids’ first experience on the Independence Day. And suddenly all the lights started flickering and the dog starts to bark at the main door aggressively. The Daniel pulls up his shotgun and asks Lacy to be safe with the kids upstairs, where she takes a knife and guards the kids after she puts them both in Jesse’s room and asked him to protect Sammy. When a humanoid diverted her and locked her in another room. The main door was opened with a bright light, and Daniel shoots at the light asking the humanoids to leave them alone and goes upstairs and saves the kids and they all lock them up with Lacy.  Where 3 Aliens comes and everyone started to shout out of fear when Jesse blackouts and sees an illusion of his brother running through the hallway and runs behind to catch him, Daniel crying after shooting Lacy saying that he ruined everything and shoots himself, his friends watching tv in a room and calling him too. But suddenly hears his parents calling his name and comes out of illusion where he sees his parents standing with Sammy, and the grays comes out of nowhere all of a sudden and surrounded Jesse and abducted him.

Edwin includes Jesse’s picture on his wall along with other missing children. Three months later, Daniel and family moves to another apartment where they sets up a room for Jesse on a hope that he might return. Daniel speaks to the lawyer since he and Lacy was the suspects on Jesse’s disappearance case when Lacy gives Sammy some of his dolls and stuffs where he got his Walkie Talkie. At the same time Lacy was going through Sammy’s old stuffs where she found more drawings of grays and a drawing such as him holding hands of the humanoids, which indicates it was Jesse who was contacted by the Aliens at first, Lacy remembers that Jesse used to get sick always when he was a kid and understand it was because of these Aliens implants. Whereas in walkie talkie they all started to hear some noises and disturbances and when Sammy starts to speak in it Jesse screams at his name. And there it ends!

This movie has got 38% of Rotten Tomatoes and 51% of popcorn, whereas IMDB rated it 6.2/10. According to me this is one of the Alien abduction movies and could be seen once for sure.

My personal rating for this film would be 3/5. Thank you J- Suchitra

The Internship- Movie Review

The Internship 2013 - Movie review


Drama ,Comedy

Director : Shawn Levy
Written by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern
Produced by Vaughn & Levy

Cast : Vince Vaughn , Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne and others..

The story starts with 2 salesman Vince and Owen who's wristwatch sales business gets shuts down cuz apparently people are more hooked on to their tablets and cellphones for time tracking. They become jobless with "less skills" but they are awesome salesmen. They sign up for an Google internship program which " may" lead to a job. However there is no guarantee whether they will give them the job or not. In the campus these 2 old guys meet 4 other young interns , 3 guys and 1 girl who are apparently quite intelligent.These two salesman get to make their way into the internship program with the deciding vote of the head of the program (who probably was quite impressed by their free spirit answers in the first place and saw there were some limitless possibilities in these two old interns , but we get to know he was the one to cast his vote for them only at the end).This guy was quite a hard working man himself with not much educational skills ( thus he found these 2 men to be quite like him) however he is cold as hell all the time. They loose some competition and win some while one last competition remains where they have to get hold of a good amount of sales and franchise for Google.

In the challenge before this was all about helping customers out with Google, as in sorting their problems out , deleting cookies ,why they can't access something ..and all of this needed studying and not "weirdness" .  Vince not willing to loose the competition , started to study till late in the hall of the campus where he met a nerdy weirdo who always wears a headphone. The chubby weirdo seeing his hardwork and that he ain't has much of an educational skill, teaches him everything he possibly could .Unfortunately next day he does quite good with customers but forgets to click one simple button in the previous customer service challenge which is why the team lost that challenge,and he considered himself to be the reason  and he left campus. Owen Wilson finds him out and explains to him that the last challenge is all about sales which he is best at and this was when he can really prove himself to those 3 young interns too. Vince comes back and hits the pizza joint which apparently had a loving chain of customers who desperately seeked some more branches. He convinces the pizza chain owner for google franchise.They arrive really late at the ultimate challenge decider but prove that Google meant "Googliness" and "endless possibilities" and a little " weirdness" .The chubby weirdo walks out in front of them and people gets to know he was actually the head of the programming dept. of Google. The franchise that Vince Vaughn and his team got had low sales count than the other team but what they had grabbed meant lots of future possibilities and helping people out by making information and service reach to them.which is what is the ultimate Google goal.Thus they win the challenge and also are offered jobs in google, all 6 of them.The team leader of the other team also gets a parting punch right at his nuts by his "fat" team mate who took revenge for a punch he landed on him saying "man down" at a previous challenge.

Overall this is a very simple movie but with great acting and great direction which makes the movie stand out. A total treat to watch. Just luved the movie.Grab a bucket of popcorn and watch it. It's a very spiced up  movie! :-D

3.5/5 :) -Zinnia

It's a must watch , really will be a breather for u all and the trailer is not gonna give a full view of this film , still .. have a sneak peak at it.. ;-)

The Embrace Of The Vampire 2013 - Movie Review

Embrace of the Vampire 2013
Director Carl Bessai

Starring

Sharon Hinnendael, Tiio Horn, C.C. Sheffield, Chelsey Marie Reist, Victor Webster n others

I am a big fan of vampire stuff.. be it Twilight , or the tv series Vampire Diaries.. I find Vampires to be very sexy.. the good looking ones.. sexy.. fast.. wild.. strong.. mmmmm :-P  

This movie started out on a very new and fresh vampire concept.. how to transform the offspring into something like a slayer unless that person gives oneself up readily...without bite and with the blood of a vampire.. something so.. then there is an old vampire created by the Maiden Vampiress who can either be made mortal again with the original blood line only if she readily offers herself to him or has to be slayed by that original blood line holder..  This original blood line holder was a girl who has recently joined a university program on fencing.. on scholarship .. and who's professor was the vampire. She falls in love with him too and also a coffee shop boy who gets killed by the vampire.. because the vampire just wanted her for himself..

The moment he thought she was gonna give herself to him (which means he will become mortal and she will become the vampire) ,she drives a stake thru his heart and kills him. The vampire before dying had already bitten her :-P The story however ends after the vampire gets killed and burnt by sunlight,

So is there a new vampire slayer who is immortal on the block no
 ;-) That's left for the audience to conclude..

This story started out on a fresh and really very different concept.. but it took soo long to explain the whole events of the past that there couldnt be more spice at the end. It just fell flat!

If it would have been a tv series.. it would have been better than Vampire Diaries with more stories to tell.....
i am Disappointed :-|   i wanted to see more..  oh and there are some Lesbian scenes.. of which i found no significance .. and it was quite odd to see those cuz am too much straight..  wish there were some straight sex scenes instead.. -_-

2.5/5
Here is a trailer of the same ..  -Zinnia

The Butcher Boys - Movie Review

The Butcher Boys 2013 - Movie Review

Direction- by  Justin Meeks  and  Duane Graves

This movie is form the writer/director of Texas Chain Saw Massacre . This is not a horror movie.. there are no ghosts in this film.. it's about a bunch of psychologically disturbed hooligans who believe in this tag line "u are what u eat" ..  but they are not referring to veggies and pizzas...hope u got my point .....

A total psychological thriller. Not much to tell about the story because the more u hear the more u'll get confused. It's best to watch this movie to squeeze the full flavor out of it.

It contains some disturbing scenes.But those "some" disturbing scenes are TOO DISTURBING TO WATCH. Definitely not for the weak hearted people.. I watched and when i recall , i feel uneasy myself..      -_-

However the gang leader of the so called "butcher boys" was very hot looking.. :-P ..  as below

It's worth a watch if u like psychological thrillers..

i'd say 2.5/5 .. as a rating .. and this creepy tag line "u are wat u eat"  .. O_O freaks me out every time i think about it..


These guys need to learn about normal human diet plan which doesn't include human flesh.. :-D

 take my advice.. stick to fresh veggies and chicken.. LOL :-D hehe

-Zinnia

Here is a trailer...

Upside Down- Movie Review

Upside Down- Movie Review

It's a French-Canadian romantic science fiction film written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas

Cast - Kristen Dunst , Jim Sturgess , and others.

So sometimes you come across certain movies which bring forth a totally new concept , something u have probably never seen or thought of before but may be u had it at the back of your mind..that what if something like this happened.....how would things be then?....Now let's come to this "something" ...that this movie is about......

This movie speaks of a different solar system which has one sun (the usual ) and two planets with exact opposite gravitational forces on the exact different planes like twins revolving round the sun (like usual) .

There are 3 universal laws here , 1- People from each world are drawn by it's own gravity and not by the other twin planet's. 2-You can use trans materials i.e materials from the opposite planet to reverse the gravity.  3- These trans materials become heated very fast and can burn the object wearing them over some time..like an hour or so..
 Good concept right? But not an awesome story...it's a very good movie but not like u can say omg it's fucking awesome..

One of the two twin planets is rich, the other one is poor. A boy(named Adam) from the poor planet falls in love with a girl (named Eden) from the rich planet. As teenagers , they meet at the highest of points on a mountain and try to seek ways out to get to each other via a rope ..One day police officers shoot the boy at the arms while he was sending his girl back to her grounds .He lets the rope loose for which the girl falls and hits her head. Then there is a long 10 years gap. Next this guy discovers a secret anti aging formula (which was a secret to flying pancakes of his aunt Becky who used pink pollens from pink bees to make pancakes fly) .Pink bees were the only creatures who would make pink pollens which consisted of pollens from both the worlds. This pink pollen was the secret ingredient in the anti aging cream that the guy was making. He acquires a job on trial basis at the trans office (a link b/w both the worlds but only the highly qualified or people testing new innovations could join there) .He had reportedly seen Eden (his child hood love after 10 long years in a tv show and found out she was working at the trans office) .He while testing his anti-aging cream started to steal bars of trans materials (steel , iron etc) and stored them up at a secret place in the washroom. One day when he had enough weights he put those on and went to meet Eden working on the 7th floor. Now he thought she would immediately recognize him but she couldn't. He finds out that from that accident when she fell down as a teenager she had a case of amnesia and she can remember very less.However over time he gets her to know him by a different identity of his fellow old colleague (who gets fired soon after). He uses his id cards to get to the other world and to the 7th floor. One day Eden finds out the truth about Adam. During this time she remembers her dreams had some meaning and finally recalls events that she had forgotten of her teens that how she used to meet with Adam at the mountain top. They find other ways out with the help of that colleague of Adam who makes him a heat resistant jacket so that he wont burn with transmaterials during his stay on the other planet.

Here there are some fun scenes where they are climbing on one another's back , hanging, flying , etc.  And they ended up having sex ( nah.. no sex scenes are there in this movie .. -_- ya i know boring........buzzzzz)

One day again the police chases Adam out of the planet and Eden has to let him go.Soon after with Adam's formula of mixing liquids of two planets with pink pollen , they find out how to stay on another planet without transmaterials..

Eden tells Adam she was Preg that too with twins O_O ( can u believe it? this was soo stupid.. LOL..They can't even stay for more than an hour with each other and they are having sex .. OMG.. that was soooooo freakingly funny :-P  and like the planets are "twins" ..Kristen Dunst was preg with "twins" now that was quite a FUNNNNNY COINCIDENCE :-D )   So..  Adam and Eden keep on meeting , though only for a few hours and keep hoping to extend the time of stay with newer innovations .. but that's another story...( ya and i bet u Adam is still trying to figure out how to stay longer with Eden..but may be Eden is already busy sending her twins to school .. or may be she has forgotten whom she had sex with ..( she has amnesia remember? :-D looool ) and i bet u the sex was for such a short time, she couldn't have enjoyed enough to remember :-D .. cuz Adam can't stay for long on another planet ... .. lol .. :-P .. these bits made the film appear soo funny ..atleast to me.. thats my mind which started to think .. mmmm... n think....n think.... :-D ..oh another thing.. did u guys see these names?? LOL Adam and Eden.. it sounds like garden of Eden and Adam n Eve ... lol they could simply name the girl Eve ..instead of Eden .. it would appear a bit less funny :-P )

Anyways.. those weren't criticisms ..just bits of my thinking.. thats all ;-) and it's still making me laugh :-D and if there is a next part to this movie (i hope not :-P  LOL ) it would be about two inter planetary creepy twin kds ..OMG scary :-P

So this movie is very good when it comes to the concept but there are stupid tit bits in the movie which was kinda ......."stupid"  :-P    but yes definitely a very good watch if u are looking for something fresh and new..

3.5/5 and 3 is all for the concept..and point 5 for the storywithin..because  the story isn't exceptional .. but the concept is bang on!
Till next review ...i'll go buzzzz around and catch some pink bees to get some pink pollens , may be i can too galaxy travel then........  :-P ..... and guess what.. i just found that the site ive subscribed for delicious recipes has just sent the recipe of an "upside down" pineapple cake into my mailbox ..Oh Gosh this is soo weird and freaky and FUNNYYYYYY LOOOL :-D  -Zinnia

A trailer of the film for u guys..