Blue Sky (1994): Good drama movie: 1 academy (oscar) award winner

Posted by maneesh On November - 22 - 2010

Cast: Jessica Lange
Tommy Lee Jones
Powers Boothe

The movie is about the story of a military guy who's having a hot wife. The story revolves around his family. Good movie. Lange won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Ed Wood (1994): 2 academy (oscar) award winner

Posted by maneesh On October - 8 - 2010

Cast: Johnny Depp
Martin Landau
Patricia Arquette
Sarah Jessica Parker
Jeffrey Jones
Bill Murray

The movie is about a film maker who signs up a horror movie star and makes movie. I did not like this movie. Kind of boring. Martin Landau won academy award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Cast: Brad Pitt
Anthony Hopkins
Aidan Quinn
Julia Ormond
Henry Thomas

The story is about 3 brothers who go for fighting in World War 1. One brother dies there and other starts taking revenge on the Germans. The story is good and Brad Pitt has acted nicely. The movie won one academy award, for best cinematographer John Toll.

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Cast: Keanu Reeves
Dennis Hopper
Sandra Bullock
Joe Morton
Jeff Daniels
Alan Ruck
Glenn Plummer

The movie is about a man who is a specialist bomb maker and plants bombs in several places for ransom. The action sequences of the movie are top notch. I liked the theme music of the movie. The movie won two academy awards for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing.

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Cast: Nigel Hawthorne
Helen Mirren
Ian Holm
Amanda Donohoe
Rupert Graves
Rupert Everett

The movie depicts the life of a mad king George. I found the movie boring. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

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Bandit Queen (1994): Great Hindi art biographical movie

Posted by maneesh On July - 13 - 2010

Cast: Seema Biswas

The movie is about the life of a dacoit Phoolan Devi. It shows the childhood and the adulthood of the dacoit. It also depicts the various social problems of women at that time ion the villages. Great direction and the location to shoot is really amazing.

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Cast: Tom Hanks
Robin Wright Penn
Gary Sinise
Mykelti Williamson
Sally Field

The movie is about the life of a Vietnam veteran. The movie starts from his childhood. They have captured all the minute details and that makes the movie special. Sometimes, you will laugh out loud and sometimes you will have tears in your eyes. Great acting by Tom Hanks, hats off. The movie won 6 academy awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Tom Hanks, Best Director: Robert Zemeckis, Best Film Editing: Arthur Schmidt, Best Picture: Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, and Steve Tisch, Best Visual Effects: Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Allen Hall, and Stephen Rosenbaum     , Best Adapted Screenplay: Eric Roth. The music by Alan Silvbestri is a great one.

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Leon: The Professional (1994): Good action movie

Posted by maneesh On June - 17 - 2010

Cast: Jean Reno
Gary Oldman
Natalie Portman

Jean Reno acted brilliantly. The story is like a girl's family was killed by the dirty cops and she wants to take revenge. Jean helps her to do that. The movie has some great scenes and sequences. There is a Hindi movie based on this one: Bichhoo.

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