Tuesday, March 20, 2012

New Quick Flicks for the Week of March 20, 2012

The
 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By Fincher, David
2012-03 - Sony Pictures Entertainment
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A murder mystery rife with suspense, scandal, sexual abuse, and some supremely intriguing characters, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an excellently crafted film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's equally fascinating book of the same name. …More


Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill
By Dugan, Dennis
2012-03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Jack and Jill is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jills neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jacks wife. …More


The
 Muppets
The Muppets
By Bobin, James
2012-03 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. …More


The
 Sitter
The Sitter
By Green, David Gordon
2012-03 - Twentieth Century-Fox
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Jonah Hill stars in this giddy comedy about a student whose suspension from college leaves him available to baby-sit his mom's neighbors' children. The poor guy, however, has no idea what fate and the kids have in store for him. …More


Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
By Alfredson, Tomas
2012-03 - Focus Features
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High-ranking intelligence officer George Smiley (Gary Oldman) was forced out of service when a mission in Hungary went very wrong, but rumors of a Soviet mole hidden within the agency bring him back into play. If the theory of the former head, Control (John Hurt), is to be believed, the mole is at the very top, one of four senior officers, played by Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, Colin Firth, and David Dencik (of the Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). With the help of a lower-ranking agent with a few secrets of his own (Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock) and a field agent who may be a source of disinformation (Tom Hardy, Inception), Smiley slowly draws out the clues he needs to lay a trap for the mole. …More


Agneepath
"Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) father is brutally lynched by villagers after being framed by Kancha Cheena (Danny Denzongpa), and his family is forced to flee. The young Vijay vows revenge, and grows up protecting his sister and mother by becoming a gangster himself. Eventually he works his way up the ladder until he is face to face with the men who killed his father, but by this time he is little different from them, and his actions have put his family in the line of danger once more"--IMDb.

Damadamm
In this romantic comedy, Sameer lives with a pushy girlfriend, Shikha. When she is away on a family trip, he starts a romantic attachment with his employer's sister. Then Shikha returns.

The Descendants
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.

Desi Boyz
Desi Boyz is the story of two friends, Jerry alias Jignesh Patel (Akshay Kumar) and Nick Mathur (John Abraham), who live in London and who are hit hard by recession. Jerry does odd jobs for a living as he is an undergraduate but Nick has a white-collar job. However, both find themselves jobless due to the economic downturn. Jerry has a little, school-going nephew Veer (Master Virej Desai) to look after as the child has lost both his parents. Out of a job, Jerry finds it difficult to even pay the school fees of his nephew because of which the government is on the verge of giving the custody of his nephew to a foster family.

Dhobi Ghat
Arun, an upmarket artist, meets Shai, an NRI investment banker at his exhibition. It's a chance encounter that may or may not lead to something more substantial in moody Mumbai. Meanwhile, Shai befriends Munna, the friendly neighborhood dhobi who happens to be a wannabe actor too, while Arun gets lost in the video-taped story of Yasmin, the enigmatic ex-inmate of the house he currently occupies. Will the foursome find what they are looking for in the strange metropolis?

Jo Dooba So Paar
After being expelled from high-school, Kishu returns home to work with his disapproving truck-driver father, Someshwar, who bends the law, bribes the police to transport hand-grenades packed in egg-boxes. Kishu's life undergoes a major change when he gets smitten by Houston-based Sapna, the niece of Dr. Sinha, who is on a research assignment in secluded areas of Bihar. She goes to the Superintendent of Police, Vikram Kapoor, to seek an escort to accompany her, but is cautioned that even police are reluctant to visit the areas she wants to tour. Kishu volunteers, she initially rejects him, but relents when he impresses her with his knowledge of Devi Maa Durga. Hoping to woo and win her heart, he is in for nothing but disappointment when he sees her in the arms of her Caucasian boyfriend, Mike. Then she is dramatically abducted and held for a ransom of Rs.1.50 Crores by unknown persons.

Jo Hum Chahein
Rohan (Sunny Gill) is a brash, cocky, ambitious, 24 year old MBA graduate who wants instant success and he'll do anything to make that happen! He moves to Mumbai to pursue a career as a stockbroker where he meets Neha (Simran Mundi) a no-nonsense, strong headed girl who has come to Mumbai to follow her dreams, the dream of becoming a film actor. Neha is someone who believes in love, but hasnt given any guy a chance because no one measures up to her standards, that's until Rohan comes along and her life changes completely! They go on a journey that intertwines their personal and professional lives where they touch the peaks of love, loss, longing, despair, betrayal and redemption!

Lanka
Manoj Bajpayee, a local gangster rules over the small town of Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh. He follows no law and the law turns a blind eye towards all his misdeeds. His rule of fear extends to a doctor's family where he forces the daughter, Tia Bajpai, of the CMO to become his mistress and ruthlessly exploits her. Will his own protegee, Arjan Bajwa, end up as Tia's saviour?

Rockstar
Janardan, born and brought up in a middle class locality of Pitampura in Delhi, has a dream of being a rockstar like Jim Morrison. "Rockstar" is about the journey of the boy Janardan to become Jordan, from a simple naivete to a tortured soul, from a pleasure of unaffected friendship to the torment of unrequited love, from the campus in Delhi to the international stage.

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Flamboyant and with a hair-trigger temper that more than once led to him pulling a gun on musicians, 1960s British pop producer Joe Meek makes Phil Spector look like a pussycat. From Meek's ascension to the top of the charts with 'Telstar' to his dabblings in the occult and implication in a boy's murder, the film charts the composer's tumultuous life.