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[15 May 2012 | No Comment | Schayan Riaz]
Movie Review: The Hunger Games

As with the case of many book-to-film adaptations, The Hunger Games does not quite live up to expectations.

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[18 Apr 2012 | One Comment | Schayan Riaz]
Movie Review: Kahaani

Sujoy Ghosh’s thriller Kahaani is perhaps one of the best Bollywood films of the year.

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[17 Apr 2012 | Comments Off | Schayan Riaz]
Movie Review: Trishna

Michael Winterbottom’s cinematic adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles is good but not quite as good as it could have been.

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[7 Apr 2012 | Comments Off | Schayan Riaz]
Pakistan Snags Multiple Awards at Tongues on Fire Film Festival

Pakistan emerged on top at the Tongues on Fire London Asian Film Festival 2012, with the likes of Humaima Malick and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan winning awards.

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[25 Feb 2012 | Comments Off | Schayan Riaz]
And the Oscar Goes To…

The 84th Annual Academy Awards is scheduled on February 26 and everybody’s wondering which movie will win the Best Picture Oscar. Here are this year’s nine nominees plus a look at the Oscar-nominated Pakistani documentary, Saving Face.

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[21 Feb 2012 | Comments Off | Schayan Riaz]
Movie Review: Hugo

Hugo is partly adventure and partly a film-history lecture, but the stirring treatment makes it a winner all the way.

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[21 Feb 2012 | Comments Off | Schayan Riaz]
Movie Review: The Descendants

This coming-of-age story of a 50-year-old man is high-quality cinema and shouldn’t be missed.

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[21 Feb 2012 | Comments Off | Schayan Riaz]
Movie Review: The Artist

The direction in this film is so authentic that the movie could pass as an actual film from the 1920s.

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[11 Nov 2011 | Comments Off | Schayan Riaz]
Movie Review: Drive

The latest film in the car-themed action genre is the edgy Drive, a thriller brimming with tenderness and brutality.

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[8 Nov 2011 | Comments Off | Schayan Riaz]
Movie Review: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is both engaging and entertaining in equal measures.