Movie Review: Shawshank Redemption

This time I am reviewing a great movie. A movie, which was ahead of it’s of time and if it would hit the theaters in this day and age it would perform well. Shawshank flopped in the box office and did not perform well when it first came out in 1994. Once the movie became available on DVD and Netflix, it performed well and sold a lot better than it did in the box office.

The movie is stared by: Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne, Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, Bob Gunton as Warden Samuel Norton and is directed and written by, Frank Darabont.

The movie is about a banker who is wrongfully accused of shooting his unfaithful wife and her lover. He is sentenced to serve two consecutive life sentences at Shawshank State Penitentiary. While incarcerated he takes advantage of his skills as a banker and helps the guards with their taxes. Its gets to the point where the penitentiary library becomes sort of an office for tax purposes. The warden of the prison notice Andy skills as a banker and decides to make him launder money for him. The story takes a turn when a new inmate joins the penitentiary and reveals some interesting facts about Andy’s case. The warden then takes drastic measures to make sure Andy stays in jail to keep the money laundering business going.

What really attracted me to the movie is that it was so realistic and how Frank shot it in a way that makes you feel you want to do prison time. Tim Robbins excels as Andy and Morgan Freeman as always makes you feel the character from every aspect. It’s evident that the movie was not easy to shoot. As you watch you will notice the great interaction between the characters and how the movie sequence was shot in a way to hook you into the story. The escape scene re-defines the meaning of the word determination. It’s so unexpected yet so realistic. 

I strongly recommended buying this movie on Blu-ray or DVD because you will love it and I am sure you will watch again.

Before I go, I want to share an interesting fact about Shawshank. Tom Cruise turned down the role because he didn’t want to work with Frank Darabont, who was a new director back then.   

For more info and the trailer, please click here.

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Nedal Atawneh

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Movie Review: The Equalizer

I saw the trailer of this movie ages ago and I really wanted to watch it and so, I did! I very much enjoyed it! I love Denzel Washington and his movies are always good.

The story of Robert McCall (Denzel) who works in a store and lives a routine quite life as he goes from work to home then to a dinner in the middle of the night when he can’t sleep. There he reads a book quietly and chat to a girl, Terry (Chloë Grace Moretz) who work as a prostitute for a Russian gang. When Terry gets hurt by the gang, Robert calls on his past forgotten skills to help her out.

From the beginning the movie has its own rhythm, one that moves with Roberts mind. We feel what he feels and see what he sees. The way he struggles between his past and present and the details of his thoughts are all reflected in the way the movie was shot. I was so hooked and mesmerized. 

The movie not what you’d expect as its not a typical fast action packed movie, no, it’s more of a Drama thriller. It focuses on the psychological aspect of Roberts personality rather than big action scenes.

Denzel was as amazing as always. I love how he acts! He was so composed in the movie and mysterious, but yet you can read his emotions that flash on his face. It was just what the character needed. And Chloë! I love her. She is so beautiful and so good in her performance. I have high hopes for her, so let’s see where she takes it from here.

So, this is what I think. I did liked and enjoy it, but be aware that the movie is a bit slow. It should be shorter, but for me, I appreciate the details and the development of the character in a movie, so I felt it was good that we got to know Robert more.

The only thing that was funny was when Robert is about to hit someone he calculate the movement and time like Sherlock in the Sherlock Holmes movies. I thought that was a repetition, but its still cool. 

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Kemz

Movie Review: The Lunchbox

 So, for today I wanted to review something different, other than my normal fantasy sci-fi stuff and in iTunes I found that the Lunchbox is the movie of the week! I heard really good things about it from my friends who watched it and it didn’t disappoint! Such a sweet deep and real movie! It’s enchanting, funny and the type of movies that never leave you.

The movie is set in India and it’s a story of a married woman who was trying to win back the love of her husband by making him the yummiest lunch he had, but by mistake the lunchbox was delivered to another man, who is old and bitter after losing his wife. When she discovered that the box went to the wrong person, she sends a letter to the guy in the lunchbox and he replies and with that starts an unexpected friendship between the two.

The movie just hypnotizes you into a beautiful world with amazing cinematography and colors. It shows us the smallest details we’re normally not exposed to from other cultures; like the lunchbox delivery service. It’s just men who go from home to home collect all the lunchboxes then take them to their destination. So we follow this small green box as it travels between the two.

It’s so simple, yet so deep. It shows the charming relationship growing between the two in a very charming and also funny way. It just makes you want to watch more and more of it. Not to mention as well the well structured and hooking script. It was written by the director as well, Ritesh Batra, who I had the pleasure to meet three years ago, though I doubt he’ll recall our meet hehehe.

The cast as well shined and gave great performances. I thought Nimrat Kaur is so beautiful and loved her portray of Ila (the woman who prepare the lunchbox) and of course not to forget to mention Irrfan Khan who played Saajan, the guy receiving the lunchbox.

The movie is such a beautiful melody that taps into our humanity in a sweet way. It won more than 20 international awards including Grand Golden Rail in Cannes Film Festival 2013.

The movie is what we call an “indie movie” or an Independent film, which means a movie that was produced mostly or all together outside the big and major movie studios system. Many great directors and even actors started with an indie movie and I’m planning to expand my horizon even further and review more movies from this type!  

If you know any good indie movie, please feel free to comment and mention some to us! We’d love to hear from you!

For more information and to watch the trailer, please click here.

Till again lovelies!

Kemz

Movie Review: Life of Crime

As I was planning my weekend review, I discovered that Life of Crime is released in Cinemas in Qatar, but it’s an old movie from 2013. Nonetheless, I rented it in iTunes to tell you whether to watch in in Cinemas or not. Let me tell you, it’s not worth the movie cinema experience. Don’t waste your money and only watch it by renting it or when it’s on TV.

The movie is the story of two guys, Ordell and Louis (Mos Def and John Hawkes) who kidnapped Mickey Dawson (Jennifer Aniston) in the 70s. Things don’t go as planned and they have to deal with it.

I don’t know why they categorized this movie as “comedy”, because it wasn’t funny. It felt more of a drama movie to me. I only laughed a tiny bit in the ending. The movie however was appealing. I don’t know what it was, but I kept watching and it put me in a daze, in a good way. Maybe it was the 70s theme, the beautiful outfits and music.

Daniel Schechter, the director, did a good job with it. The plot however was meh and again not funny, so it could be better.

Again this is not a movie to go to the movies for. Even if you don’t see it ever, it won’t be a loss.

Well, this is all I can say about this movie. For more info and the trailer, click here.

I hope The Maze Runner is released next week!!

Till then!

Kemz

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Quick Movie Review - نقد سريع للأفلام

Blood Diamond:

One of my favorite Leonardo DiCaprio movies! A thrilling heartbreaking story of the struggle of Diamond mining in Africa.

من افلام ليوناردو دي كابريو المفضلة! قصه مثيره ومؤلمه عن حال التنجيم وتهريب الألماس في افريقيا.

Valkyrie:

The most famous assassination attempt in history! A great performance by Tom Cruise.

قصة اشهر محاولات الاغتيال في التاريخ! تمثيل قوي من توم كروز.

Flawless:

A drama about two people stealing one huge diamond in the 60s. A good movie to watch.

فيلم درامي مشوق عن عملية سرقة لألماسة كبيره من قبل شخصين. فيلم ممتع للمشاهدة.

Smokin’ Aces:

OMG! How boring! I didn’t like this movie what so ever! I don’t know how they made a sequel.

فيلم ملل لاقصى درجه! ماعجبني الفيلم ابدا، وماعرف شلون صوروا وانتجوا جزء ثاني.

No Country For Old Men:

An Oscar winning movie that’s worth the watch! A drama directed by the Coin brothers!

فيلم درامي حاز على جائزة الاوسكار من اخراج الاخوين كوين .. يستحق المشاهدة! 

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