The Wolf of Wall Street

Language : English
Country    : USA
Year          : 2013

Genre       : Crime | Drama | Biographical | Comedy
Duration   : 3hr

Director    : Martin Scorsese
Actors       : Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Kyle Chandler

Leonardo DiCaprio .... just when I thought 2013 cudn't be any better than "The Great Gatsby", he hits us with an even bigger tsunami with "The Wolf ". Absolutely brilliant movie. His acting skills aced pretty much every slide of the reel. Though its 10% story telling mode, the 3hr movie is 90% pure awesome. The story centers the life of Jordan Belfort, who rose to fame with his company in stock marketing, then following his abuse of money and involvement in crime, corruption, fraudulence, sex/alchohol/drugs addiction and eventualy leading to losing it all. So much for the story, but my God what an act. You gotta see it to believe it :)

Captain Philips

Language : English
Country    : USA
Year          : 2013

Genre       : Crime | Drama | Biographical | Adventure
Duration   : 2hr 10 mins

Director    : Paul Greengrass
Actors       : Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman,
Faysal Ahmed

Tom Hanks... I dont remember a time where Ive gone for a movie of his with huge expectation and came back dissapointed, and this movie here is no exception. Captain Philips, is a based on the real life story of Captain Richard Philips who was captured by the Somalian pirates in the waters of Somalia. The story is based on the book written by Richard himself, "A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea". Tom Hanks did a wonderful job being the captain, although there were allegation from some crew members that Philips wasnt that much of a Hero as its shown in the film. But thats whole another story.
           The movie is well paced, plenty of suspense and that anxiety factor playing in, the crew and Hanks were brilliant. But what deserves more appreciation here are those who played the Somalian pirates, especially Barkhad Abdi who played the lead of the 4 member pirate crew. He was a chauffeur in the States and had no dream of becoming an actor, but the talent that he showed portraying the charater Muse (pirate lead) was just exemplary. The other supporting actors who played the other pirates were good too. Stand up applause for that. All in all, this is a really good movies. Highly recommended :)

A Good Year

Language : English
Country    : England
Year          : 2006

Genre       : Romance | Comedy | Drama
Duration   : 1hr 57mins

Director   : Ridley Scott
Actors      : Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard

    This is a pretty old movie that I picked up while I was lazing around in IMDb. Was quite interested by the plot really.. a successful investment broker from England (Russel Crowe) who is on the top of his game, receives a letter to inherit his uncles chateau in France. He has a faint memory of the place as he grew up there fr a while, he decides to go and have a look around and sell it off at the best deal he can get. Apparently, he gets to stay longer at the chateau and slowly began to recollect his childhood memories .. Meets a beautiful women in the small town of theirs but the question is, a business man living in a fast paced world of stock marketing, dealing millions of pounds in a day does not fit in the picture all that well... Or doest it ?? .. Going otherwise is giving up all that he did to reach the top of his career ... Will he follow his heart or will he more likely have his businessman brain work its charm .. Well, that's then one to watch.. :)
     Warm cosy atmosphere ... Beautiful small French town .. Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard and Abbie Cornish acting brilliantly along with Ridley Scott direction and a touch of French-ness in this movie makes it quite attractive ... Great movie .. loved watching it .. :)

Eden

Language : English
Country    : USA
Year          : 2012

Duration   : 1hr 30mins

Director    :  Megan Griffiths
Actors       : Jamie Chung, Matt o'leary, Breau Bridges

Based on a true story happened in 1990s in Washington, USA  - the movie centers the struggle of a Korean American girl Young Jae who was abducted and thrown into sex trafficking. The movie paces up with her plot to escape from the captivity guarded by guns and muscles. Movie throws quite an insight into the sex trafficking industry and the lives of the young girls who have no choice but to smile for the clients. Movie feels special having female director Megan Griffiths involved to help write the scripts for the movie and later steer it exactly the way the person involved experienced it.

Interesting movie with  brilliant acting from Jamie Chung and a warm background scores make this movie, quite a watch.

Innocence is not Lost. Its Stolen