Category: Movies

A dialogue below, set in the medieval times, from the latest ‘Robin Hood’ movie, that reminds me of more than…

Do social networking sites make us more or less true and open? Do they make us more ready to connect…

In the movie ‘(Avatar): The Last Airbender’, one of the baddies shouts to his henchmen who capture him, ‘Do not…

‘When two paths open up before you, always choose the hardest one.’ As uttered by a monk in the film…

We missed watching “The Unwinking Gaze” earlier due to our heavy work schedule. A friend had lent the DVD to…

As shortened from Wikipedia: ‘”I Love You, Phillip Morris” is a comedy-drama film based on the real life events of…

‘Outrage’ is a recent flick, destined to be another classic, that portrays the convoluted nature of organised crime, of the…

I never really watched ‘Survivor’ until I came across the recent episodes on the tube. I think I finally found…

This is a note that from now onwards, full length movie reviews will be posted at http://thedailyenlightenment.com/category/05 (while moonpointer.com will…

I watched the 2010 version of ‘The Karate Kid’ on the plane to India. It’s better than I expected. (It’s…

In ‘Valley of Flowers’, which might appear to be a Tibetan Buddhist movie at first, there is a scene of…

A wonderful one-liner from ‘The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift’: ‘When you drift, you’re in control and out of…

Just because the lie-detector says you’re telling the truth doesn’t make what you tell the truth because you might have…

Something learnt from ‘American Pie: The Naked Mile’ is that there is no such thing as a guilt-free trip without…

I like to watch cops-and-robbers flicks – not to see the plainly good guys chasing after one-sided bad guys, but…

A friend’s experience… While shortlisting films for a Buddhist short film festival, I spoke firmly against the choice of one,…

The only lesson I learnt from ‘Au Revoir Taipei’: Don’t miss the persons before you now, who care, whom you…

In the movie ‘The Cave’, a parasite takes upon host humans, gradually taking over their bodies and minds entirely. A…

The ingenious film that is ‘Inception’ begins with the assumption that it is possible for multiple persons to enter someone’s…

The film ‘Monga’ is unnerving because it is realistic – as what featured could really happen in real life, if…