October 12, 2007

A star is born

Some days ago I watched The Devil Wears Prada for the second time, and I just discovered a great actress whom I hadn’t seen at the first time. Emily Blunt, who plays Meryl Streep’s first assistant, is so stunning. She is so cold and stony at this role, and in + More...

August 18, 2006

A Boy from Bronx

"Part of Stanley's legacy on my life is that if you believe in something, you passionately believe in something, devote yourself to it completely, utterly and don't apologize for doing it." - Nicole Kidman Today I watched 'Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures' the movie. I can just say that + More...

May 06, 2006

An Iranian film in NY

Reuters: A witty Iranian film about four men who try to topple a big rock has audiences wondering about political allegory and hidden messages at a time of growing tension between Washington and the Islamic Republic of Iran. But the director of "Men at Work," Tehran-based Mani Haghighi, says sometimes + More...

August 17, 2005

Angelina Jolie in Tehran

If you live in Tehran, you have this chance to see a big scale of American actress Angelina Jolie on screen! 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' has released in Cinema Farhang and every night at 9:30 pm you can watch an entertaining movie starring Jude Law and Gwyneth + More...

May 28, 2005

Star Wars and Sin City

One of my friends who lives in United States has written about the last part of Star Wars series. He believes that the 6th part of these movies is a very bad movie, worse than an awful theatre named Rabe'e which we watched it together last summer in Tehran. [Is + More...

April 01, 2005

A night with Halle Berry

g Last night I watched a horror movie named 'Gothika' directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and starring Halle Berry as a psychologist but I have to confess that it was a bad choice to watch! I didn't enjoy and the movie was not successful to attract me. A scary movie needs + More...

February 28, 2005

And Oscar goes to...

It's the fifth time that Martin Scorsese's nomination doesn't bring him an award and he loses the Oscar match! Now he is one of the top artists who never got an Oscar directing prize like Alfred Hitchcock. This year was expected to be Scorsese's year but his Aviator with 11 + More...

February 24, 2005

Just few days

This Sunday the Oscar ceremony will be held in L.A. and I guess that the major prizes will go to The Aviator and Million Dollar Baby. BBC entertainment correspondent is writing a weblog from L.A. about Oscars... 'The world's film elite are gathering for Sunday's Oscars, when all eyes will + More...

January 27, 2005

Turtles didn't fly

Nominations for the 77th Academy Awards were announced 2 days ago and unfortunately there wasn't Iran's entry - Turtles can fly - among them. Turtles... is the first movie to come out of Iraq since last year's Iraq war. Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian director that made his 3rd movie + More...

January 19, 2005

Oh, my dear Uma!

The 23rd Fajr Film Festival will begin in 2 weeks in Tehran, and yesterday the official website of festival announced the movies that will be took part in Festival of festivals section and Kill Bill vol.2 was the best film among them. Kill Bill is a 3 hour movie in + More...

January 10, 2005

The Incredibles

Yesterday I watched The Incredibles and as I guessed before it was so better than Shark Tale and Shrek2 :D Pixar's animations and characters are so better and more interesting than the DreamWorks's ones and I think Pixar will certainly get Oscar prize again, after their last year prize for + More...

January 03, 2005

Ladies and gentlemen; we are the assassins

Few weeks ago I watched the trailer of 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity). The story is about an assassin couple (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) that their identities are a secret even from each other! 5-6 months ago I + More...

September 14, 2004

The war I love!

Shark Tale will be shown 10 October all around. This is the 3rd war between Disney (Pixar) and DreamWorks (after An ant named Zi vs. A bug's life and Shrek vs. Monsters Inc.). Last year Disney's Finding Nemo won the best animation oscar prize and two years ago Shrek took + More...

August 27, 2004

Unknown film editors!

Some days ago Iranian TV showed L.A. Confidential; a memorable movie starring Kevin Spacy, Russel Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kim Basinger about the gangsters and assassins in L.A. and Hollywood. You know, in Iran the foreign movies are censored and some scenes (specially the scenes including sex and romantic relationship) + More...