Hungover over 'The Hangover'

Still hungover and raving about this delirious and nutty comedy. Three men, one Vegas night, that's enough to get your stomach roaring. Celebrating their friend's last days of bachelorhood, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) & Alan (Adam Galifianakis), set out to give the best bachelor party to the soon to be wed Doug (Justin Bartha). In the midst of their adventure they lose track of events & awake with no memory of the previous night. Soon after which they come to realise that the groom is missing. In an attempt to retrace their steps and find Doug, there unfolds a series of misadventures that lead them to one revelation after another of what transpired. Alan's eccentric yet innocent character outshines the rest of the cast, despite his attempts to emulate Phil. The suave and know it all, Phil, is bemused by Alan, who's recurring attempts to impress his new friends are met with condescention. Stu, the nerd, living under the oppressive regime of his girlfriend, experiences a sense of emancipation with this short but self-annihilating journey. Each character paints a vivid picture (with the exception of Doug) of the different perceptions of life and surviving it.

Shooter

Disillusionment riding on the shoulders with the guilt of a friend's death, Mark Wahlberg (The Big Hit) airs a good show, true to his character. With the cinematography being an asset for the film, along with the plot of treachery... the film could be a gunners paradise with its surge of gun laden jargon.
A dual conspiracy laid three years ago, leaves this patriot short of motivation and will to return to his profession, landing him as a hunter in the woods. Political Influentials caught in a dilemma of the Presidents assasination, recruit this wounded soldier to tackle the impending danger. This is where his journey begins to unravel the truth behind his friend's death. An action oriented film with some brilliant gunnery, the film is a must watch for action lovers and Mark Wahlberg fans.
This actor has come a long way from being a Calvin Klein model to a movie star...are the Indian models listening???

Eragon

A curio of a kind that adds up nowhere to the Dragon stories... rendered useless..
The story of a boy, destined to fight evil and retrieve the days of the dragon and the dragon rider. The amalgam rides short of its depiction, making this 'fantastical journey', into a babble of cliches. The story indeed falls short of a flow and has a rather hap-hazard line to it.
Even the costumes for that matter, are not in tandem with the context of the film, where Eragon is seen in well-finished leather pants and contemporary styled cotton shirts.

An amateurish representation, that wastes the talent of John Malkovich and Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty). The archetype of fighting evil and good winning the battle however is due to get extended to a sequel, which is an intolerable proposition. Hence my suggestion: Don't even think of watching it!

The Namesake

A drama unveiling with the family caught at the corssraods of cultures. A son's compulsive need to traverse the path of life with his own identity.. Jhumpa Lahiri's telling tale is beautifully encapsulated in this back and forth transition from Calcutta to New York.
"Gogol" played by Kal Penn, is an American born desi, who often wonders about his peculiar name. Presuming that Gogol being his fathers favorite author, had bewitched him to name his son the same, always presented him with an eccentricity beyond comprehension. Until the mystery is unfolded in two stages. The first, dawns at the behest of his fathers account of the train journey that brought him to the realization of travelling and seeing the world, rather than viewing the world from an author's eyes. He carried with him Nikolai Gogol's "The Overcoat" that serendipitiously enabled him to make sense of the events that followed later in his life. " We have all come out of Gogol's overcoat" stated Ashok Ganguli(Irfan Khan), carrying the memories of that night and the course of incidents that proceeded it. The second being his fathers death coupled with a conquest over his obsession (his name).

Mira Nair's adaptation of this vivid tale, takes a different turn, with an emphatic core of the fathers death, diverging from the namesake's namesake.