An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world–a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. The star cast in the movie are Max Records, Catherine Keener , Steve Mouzakis, Mark Ruffalo, Max Pfeifer , Madeleine Greaves.

Still from the animated movie 9. When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they’ll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them.

Movie Stills of Year One. The Star cast in the movie are Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Vinnie Jones, Juno Temple, Hank Azaria, Olivia Wilde.

Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind. The Star Cast in the movie are Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jane Alexander, Chris Browning, Beth Bailey.

Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institute in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake. The Star cast in the movie are Larry Daley, Amelia Earhart, Jedediah Smith, Kahmunrah/The Thinker/Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon Bonaparte, Octavius, General George Armstrong Custer, Nicky Daley.

A UFO expert enlists the help of a cabbie to protect two siblings with paranormal powers from the clutches of an organization that wants to use the kids for their nefarious plans. The Starcast in the movie are Dwayne Johnson , AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Tom Everett Scott, Garry Marshall, Ike Eisenmann, Paul Darnell, Bob Koherr, Chris Marquette.

Based on the popular video game franchise, female fighter Chun Li embarks on a quest for justice. The Star cast in the mvie are Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein, Neal McDonough, Robin Shou, Moon Bloodgood, Josie Ho, Michael Clarke Duncan, Edmund Chen.

Insp. Jacques Clouseau teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts. The Star Cast in the movie are Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, Yuki Matsuzaki, Alfred Molina, John Cleese, Aishwarya Rai.

If you like your sci-fi movies on the full-blooded side, Outlander should prove an experience to savour. The movie is produced by Barrie Osborne, from one of the makers of ‘Lord of the Rings Trilogy’ and is directed by Howard McCain (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans), ‘Outlander’ boasts of an estimated 580 visual effects shots and is sure going to be a treat for the audience.The movie is distributed in India by Behind The Scene.

Cast: Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), John Hurt (V for Vendetta), Sophia Myles(Underworld) and Jack Huston.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure.
Producer: Barrie Osborne (’Lord of the Rings Trilogy’)
Director: Howard McCain (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans)
Distributed in India: Behind The Scene.
India Release: 6th February, 2009

Synopsis: Humanoid Kainan (James Caviezel) tumbles down from space into the world of the Norwegian Vikings. His spaceship has crashed. Taken hostage by the local warrior clan, he tries to warn his captors that he has not come to Earth alone.

“My people call it a Moorwen. Believe me, the first time I saw one, I didn’t know what I was looking at. It was just a smudge of light in the darkness… it kills men, beasts, everything – and it smells like death.”

They dismiss his stories as “some lies about a dragon,” but when they are finally confronted with the Moorwen, they begin to understand the terror that is driving Kainan. Together they decide and plot to destry the monster. But apparently its not as easy as it seems, they learn.

“Outlander is a full-blown epic with all the trimmings; The Sea, under water flexography, a CGI creature, a Viking village, animals, children. The film was shot in the frozen north of Canada, in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.

“I really thought it was cool. For a guy like me and for my writing partner Dirk Blackman who both like genre films, Beowulf is the progenitor of all western monster movies. You look at James Cameron’s Aliens or Lord of the Rings, they all have their roots back in Beowulf. That story has become so embedded in so many ways in pop culture – this story of a mother monster, a baby monster, a Viking. Science-fiction is our way of buying into that so we gave the story the science fiction twist. Also, Dirk and I really like mixing genres. We even coined our own phrase – Sci-mythic.” says Director Howard McCain.

The movie will simultaneously release in Hindi and will be called Kurukshetra. It is also being dubbed in Tamil and Telugu.

Cast: James Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), John Hurt (V for Vendetta), Sophia Myles (Underworld) and Jack Huston.
Producer: Barrie Osborne (’Lord of the Rings Trilogy’)
Director: Howard McCain (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans)

Synopsis: Humanoid Kainan (James Caviezel) tumbles down from space into the world of the Norwegian Vikings. His spaceship has crashed. Taken hostage by the local warrior clan, he tries to warn his captors that he has not come to Earth alone.

“My people call it a Moorwen. Believe me, the first time I saw one, I didn’t know what I was looking at. It was just a smudge of light in the darkness… it kills men, beasts, everything – and it smells like death.”

They dismiss his stories as “some lies about a dragon,” but when they are finally confronted with the Moorwen, they begin to understand the terror that is driving Kainan. Together they decide and plot to destry the monster. But apparently its not as easy as it seems, they learn.

“Outlander is a full-blown epic with all the trimmings; The Sea, under water flexography, a CGI creature, a Viking village, animals, children. The film was shot in the frozen north of Canada, in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.

“I really thought it was cool. For a guy like me and for my writing partner Dirk Blackman who both like genre films, Beowulf is the progenitor of all western monster movies. You look at James Cameron’s Aliens or Lord of the Rings, they all have their roots back in Beowulf. That story has become so embedded in so many ways in pop culture – this story of a mother monster, a baby monster, a Viking. Science-fiction is our way of buying into that so we gave the story the science fiction twist. Also, Dirk and I really like mixing genres. We even coined our own phrase – Sci-mythic.” says Director Howard McCain.

The movie will simultaneously release in Hindi and will be called Ek Aur Kurukshetra. It is also being dubbed in Tamil and Telugu

Worldwide Release: 23rd Janurary, 2009

Just when you thought that Madagascar was a roller coaster ride with Alex (the lion) and his bunch of friends entertaining everyone by dancing and doing a rock n roll, DreamWorks got you Madagascar 2- Escape to Africa. We give a brief idea for people who (unfortunately) haven’t seen Madagascar

1. The movie saw these four animals (lion, giraffe, hippo and a zebra) spoiled by their upbringing with no idea what real life looks like. The four of them escape from Central Zoo, New York, smartly assisted by four absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar among a bunch of merry lemurs which leaves the story in Madagascar itself paving its way for Madagascar 2- Escape to Africa.

Director: Eric Darnell, Tom Mc Grath
Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schuwimmer, Jade Smith playing the voice of lion, zebra, giraffe, hippo
Rating: 4/5

The movie kick starts with Alex and his friends taken for a ride on the plane by (again the absconding penguins) and end up crash landing in the continent of Africa. Africa, the den of the wild where Alex and his friends actually discover what life is beyond the Central Park Zoo, New York.

Coincidently, Alex meets his parents in Africa and becomes popular as the ‘The King of New York’ there. Unfortunately, Alex’s increasing popularity and fame is not well digested by a fellow lion (Makunga), who has his eyes on capturing the alpha throne. He outsmarts Alex and henceforth becomes the new king of the jungle.

Everything then goes gala-gala where Alex and his troop have a ball of time. Everyone has his share of peace and fun; Melmen enjoying his new job as a doctor, Gloria getting all possible attention from the male hippos, Marty with all his fellow zebras racing away here and there and Alex getting all the pampering he required from his parents.

The penguins too aren’t left much behind. They manage too fool (again, what’s new) few people who came to enjoy the wild nature. The penguin with the help of monkey try to fix in their plane so that they could go home.

The movie then takes a turn and a series of events and mishaps happens like Alex being banished after being fooled by Makunga, Melman (giraffe) left heart broken by Gloria (hippo) who fell for Moto Moto (a big size male hippo), who boasts about his name (Moto Moto) saying, “the name is so nice, that you feel like saying it twice”. Next in turn is Marty (zebra) who feels that Alex and his friendship are fading away, because Alex never gives Marty a chance to say about his side of problems.

Now comes a situation where Alex could prove himself. The jungle has started drying up, the animals are almost on the verge of dying and at that moment they remember their kind former king, Zuba (Alex’s father). When Alex comes to know about the drought he decides to go off the reserve in search of water, which was the only way to prove himself. The lemur (King Julien XIII) as he is called (with a strange ascent) suggests that a sacrifice should be made for the Gods in the volcano, so that they will be happy and bestow water for everyone.

Alex, later joined by his father find them selves trapped amidst few people, lead by an old (but strong) lady who felt like having a lion for supper. Alex then delivers a mind blowing dance performance, shaking his booty, saying that this is the only thing he is good in. The father and son manage to woo their audience and ultimately succeed in escaping as well as bringing water from there for their jungle and henceforth Alex once again proclaims his title as ‘The King of New York’.

The movie ends in a ‘happy ending’ way, with Marty and Alex becoming best buddies again, while this time (for a change), Gloria realizes her love for Melmen and also saves him from becoming a sacrifice to the Gods in volcano. Zuba once again is proclaimed the pride’s alpha lion throne. The Adelie penguin finally gets married to his doll (irritating) and leaves Africa, in a half constructed plane.

The movie is picturized in a very beautiful way showing the wild side of Africa. All the characters, needless to say where mind blowing. The penguins got a better role this time (their leader is worth watching). The lemur or in a better way, King Julien X III was someone whom you will feel like watching a thousand time (do note his ascent).

Director Eric Darnell and Tom Mc Grath have done a terrific job. The voice lenders, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schuwimmer, Jade Smith and others have simply been outstanding.

The movie is better than the original as the fun mania has been doubled this time. So enjoy this amazing stuff delivered by Alex and his team who have entertained us right from the Central Park, to Madagascar, to Africa. A must, must watch.

-Pratik Maheshwari

Mo has the special talent to bring characters out of books. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta, two villains, and Dustfinger, a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Meggie discovers the truth and it’s up to her to escape Capricorn’s evil grasp. The Star Cast in the movie are Brendan Fraser, Sienna Guillory, Eliza Hope Bennett, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Matt King, Steve Speirs, Andy Serkis, Tereza Srbova

If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. After his eccentric teacher casts him as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe hidden within the script to create the play’s magical, purple love-pansy. Armed with the pansy, Timothy’s fading spirit soars as he puckishly imposes a new reality by turning much of his narrow-minded town gay, beginning with the rugby-jock of his dreams. Ensnaring family, friends and enemies in this heart-wrenching chaos, Timothy forces them to walk a mile in his musical shoes. The course of true love never did run smooth, but by the end of this moving musical comedy of errors based on director Tom Gustafson’s prolific award-winning short film, Fairies, the bumpy ride comes to a heartfelt conclusion. With vibrant imagery, a first-rate ensemble cast and innovative music rivaling the best of pop/ rock and contemporary Broadway, Were the World Mine attempts to push modern gay cinema and musical film beyond expectation. The Stars in the Movie are Zelda Williams, Christian Stolte, Ricky Goldman, Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Judy McLane, Nathaniel David Becker

The tale of three unlikely heroes – a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears – whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle’s princess. The Voices behind the animated characters are Emma Watson, Dustin Hoffman, William H. Macy

WALL-E is one of the best animated movies to be released in a very long time. At times it manages to be almost poetic and lyrically beautiful in its exploration of the all too familiar subject of love. As expected from Pixar Animation Studios, the movie is dazzlingly beautiful in its animation, but it’s also sublimely anchored in the central love story. The emotional arc of the story unfolds as gently as flower petals.

Film: WALL-E
Director: Andrew Stanton
Voices: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, MacInTalk, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy and Sigourney Weaver
Rating: 4/5

Despite being a children’s film, it has the audacity to have virtually no dialogue at all for almost the first third of the movie. The robot Wall-E and his cockroach friend communicate through sounds and tics that are not quite words.

Wall-E is a robot left behind by humans to clean up earth in the far future where there is no life at all. Wall-E goes about the task of meticulously arranging the heaps of scraps in the shape of skyscrapers. He also collects remnants of the life lived by humans and tries to make some emotional connection with all that has been long lost. But his life changes entirely when a sleek, more advanced female robot named Eve is assigned to search for life on earth.

Pixar manages to dazzle with some cutting edge graphics and at times gets carried away. The plot doesn’t necessarily require loud chases but seem to be thrown in there to amuse the kids. The movie seems to be afraid to be too adult.

The first half of the movie is audacious in its melancholy. The genius of the movie is its emotional core. It manages to make a connection with the youngest of children to the eldest of adults. The love has a soft glow that warms even in the midst of cold metal and high-tech wizardry.

Director Andrew Stanton, who also worked on “Finding Nemo”, and his team succeed because they understand the importance of putting the story and emotions ahead of computer gimmickry. The movie also makes some poignant comments on humanity in general. Humans and their dependence on technology is mocked. The power of love to transcend even the limitations of humanity is respected.

Pixar racks up another achievement and their repertoire is one of the most impressive in movie history. “Wall-E” fits majestically in that canon. Children are going to be attuned and adults are going to see deeper themes explored. The eyes and the heart of all are satiated.

The only flaw of the movie is the way it swerves awkwardly into a neat, fuzzy idea of a happy ending. It started off bravely with its slightly cynical view of humanity. For half the movie it looked like it would push towards an unsettling end. But the film makers strive to please audiences and not disturb too much.

All age groups will find something to like in “Wall-E.”