When once asked why he didn’t make romantic films, Alfred Hitchcock had famously replied, “If I made Cinderella, they would be looking for a body in the coach.” Vidya Balan had made Sujoy Ghosh’s female-centric Kahaani a sleeper hit, with its climax unfolding in the dying moments of the film. Four years later, the suspense…
Frankly, the initial half hour of the film set me wondering as to which gender and age segment of filmgoers it was targeted at. Even an hour later, I was clueless! Selena (Kate Beckinsale), the death-dealing vampire, is on the run from both the Lycans (werewolves) and their traditional rivals — her double-crossing vampire camp….
After having helmed ‘Aladdin’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’, directors Clements and Musker have taken their animation legacy further in ‘Moana’. A once sea-faring nomadic tribe has now established residence on the Motumui Island, in ancient Polynesia. Moana (voiced by Hawaiian debutante teenager Auli’l Cravalho) defies her tribal Chief father’s decree not to venture beyond the…