Late summer movies
Compiled by
Waqas Hasan Sharif
DATED: [26TH-AUGUST-2008]
Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy II has certainly the right ingredients to be a successful and totally satisfying summer release: it's an entertaining, visually stunning romp busy with fantastic ideas and well-rounded characters that more than compensate for the flimsy comic book storyline.
Hellboy's background is explored during the opening reel and the movie picks up from there. This movie is a ton of fun, yet it also makes significant artistic strides over the original. Everything about Hellboy II looks better: the set design, the make-up, the special effects and, of course, the creatures. Set in an underground world, Hellboy and crew fight the mechanical army amid giant cogs and wheels they have to avoid getting crushed in. Despite the lightweight, comic book plot, Del Toro's script is well-written and gives his characters much deserved emotional gravitas which is explored in several smaller subplots. Relationships, fatherhood, alienation -among other themes - are tackled to a satisfying degree without the film losing its playful and idiosyncratic appeal.
Hellboy II is a film entirely of this time that speaks in timeless images of Catholic grotesquerie and pre-Christian iconography, alive in the fire of invention and flights of fancy.
The film will be shown @ Cineplex cinema soon.
Directed by The Full Monty's Peter Cattaneo, The Rocker unspools the teased-hair tale of one Robert ''Fish'' Fishman (Wilson), who 20 years earlier was unceremoniously booted from a metal band shortly before they became platinum-selling monsters of rock. Since then, he's brooded, plotted revenge, and honed his high-hat chops. So when his high-school-age nephew's emo band, A.D.D., is looking for a new drummer, they give Fish a second shot at rock immortality. Needless to say, bittersweet life lessons are learned along the way. The Rocker isn't really about rock 'n' roll. It's more about middle-aged wish fulfilment. Many scenes in the film are very funny, such as one involving Demitri Martin as a committed music video director.
In a way, The Rocker seems like a vehicle for musical wunderkind Teddy Geiger, who is apparently big with the kids. Peter brings a light touch to the material but The Rocker is clearly indebted to the blueprint laid out by Almost Famous.
Directed by Andrew Fleming, Hamlet 2 mines the rich comedy in failure. The film employs an act structure with interesting titles and a theatrically inflated voiceover to narrate the story of Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan), a failed actor-turned-high-school drama teacher in Tucson, Arizona, who is fighting to save his department and his pride.
The film is a 'no holds barred' comedy that isn't afraid to be naughty. The actual play itself shows Hamlet traveling in a time machine meeting famous characters like Einstein and even Jesus, played by Dana himself. The songs are really funny. The movie has a great opening too, starting with fake commercials that Dana starred in before he was a teacher.
Andrew Fleming's direction is pretty bland and straight forward. Not bad, just ordinary. The script is all right, but the performances are what make this better than your average comedy. This is Steve Coogan's movie. He is 90% of why this movie works.
artist Ferrukh has been making these pictures for our group 
'Numerators' for the last three years. This picture is last year's and is undoubtedly the best one to date. I could have given our original picture, but this one represents us so well that our real picture looks nothing when compared to it. These four people are my life and no matter where I am and what I do, I know they are the people I will ALWAYS have... sometimes behind me and sometimes with me :) 
about this friendship? My buddy doesn't even know me, but he surely helps me out by gracing my 'Pollutics' articles whenever I need him! Here is to our continued friendship, as I now claim the honour of being 'the friend of the friendless'!
tely, we were not able to win but hey we were the runners up! After the match we went to KFC before going back to college. We had so much fun! We annoyed the assistant manager and the waiter a lot. He would ask us to go and sit on the table and wait for the meal but we wouldn't budge from the counter. We laughed our heads off. In the end we had Rs40 left, so we had a small single scoop. It was our last year in the college and the most memorable one.
st friend, Blacky? I remember taking him out for a walk that morning when I observed a quote written at the back of a car, "The more I know people, the more I love my dog!"
(Totti), Shayan (Shane), Ali (Sherry), Shahbaz (Timmy), Umair (Bugz), Amar (Rana Sahab), Ibrahim (Ibri), Arslan (Achu), Saad (Saadi) and Humza (Doc). None of us is really sure how we arrived at this name but that is what we used to call ourselves. From our morning boys' meeting to lunch in the break time and after school we made sure that we laughed with one of us taking the humour department into his hands. We had our routine fights but hey that is part of the deal. This picture is nearest to my heart with myself on the right and Hassan on the left. We were, what I proudly say, the exact definition of perfection: Na bohat baghairat na bohat sharif :P
miles apart. We three friends Haya (Me), Nabeeha and Maria follow this very idea. Hailing from three different provinces of Pakistan, we met in USA at a cultural exchange programme. We share fun moments, joys and sorrows with each other and always make sure to send an SMS whenever anyone of us remembers an old joke, prank or story.
is with your friends. You cherish each moment that you spend with them and share all of your secrets. We believe in only one quote: A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED. Standing by your friend whenever s/he needs you is what we call 'true' friendship.