Lessons in Forgetting is based on a book written by Anita Nair. It won the National Award for best feature film in English. The movie is a story of redemption and forgiveness. It is a story of a single father, JA Krishnamurthy (Adil Hussain), and his attempt to find a closure to the comatose state of his daughter, Smriti (Maya Tideman). JA Krishnamurthy follows clues to find out what happened to his teen da ...

This past weekend’s box office receipts war was won by G.I. Joe Retaliation, with a three-day total estimated at $41 million. The movie opened on Thursday with a one-day figure of $10 million, which brought its domestic four-day total to more than $51 million. The first version of G.I. Joe opened in the summer with a total of $54 million its first weekend. It proceeded to earn just over $150 million and the ...

President Obama hopes that his appointment of Julia Pierson to run the Secret Service eases some of the criticism he has received that his inner circle is lacking in diversity. Pierson’s appointment makes her the first female to be in charge of the Secret Service. Pierson, who is 53, is a career veteran at the Secret Service and is currently the chief of staff at the agency. Her appointment to be Director a ...

Spring Breakers brings sex, violence, and the loss of innocence featuring Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine in Day-Glo bikinis. The four hour of the movie shows the aggression behind the four friends’ embrace of trash culture. They might look good in swimwear but you don’t want to meet them in a dark place. Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine), and Brit (Ashley Benson ...

Upside Down has a lot working against it. It is supposed to be an Adam and Eve story but the strong idea is burdened by its execution. In the beginning, Adam (Jim Sturgess) explains about the two planets that are bound by gravity but citizens are not allowed to interact with each other. Up Top people are rich and powerful. They are the total opposites of people from Down Below, where every day is rainy and ...

For perhaps no surprise to many, sworn testimony in the divorce case between NBA player Kris Humphries and reality start Kim Kardashian by one of the producers from the Keeping up with the Kardashians show, indicates that several of the show’s scenes were actually staged and not real. Some producers of shows that are unscripted occasionally have scenes re-done for a number of different reasons. However, a d ...

The Call is an intense thriller that delivers that it promised to the viewers. It can easily scare girls and make them cling on their male companions. It is directed by Brad Anderson who is recently praised for his work on cable dramas, including Treme, The Wire, and Boardwalk Empire. The Call is a suspenseful movie about a teenager’s fate in the hands of a madman. It manages to make the concept fresh. The ...

If there was any doubt that Tiger Woods has returned to form, it should have been erased after watching him perform this weekend. The former No. 1 player in the world and current No. 2 dissected the golf course at the Trump Doral Resort in Miami to win by two strokes. Woods’ two-stroke victory was deceiving, as he was in complete control the entire last round and only a bogey on the 18th and last hole of th ...

South Dakota is the nation’s first state to pass legislation explicitly authorizing employees of schools to have guns while on the job. The measure was signed by Governor Dennis Daugaard into law Friday afternoon. The passage of the controversial law comes at a time of passionate debate nationwide over arming schoolteachers following the massacre of 20 students and six employees of an elementary school in C ...

Emad Burnat, the Academy Awards nominee for 5 Broken Cameras, was detained for a brief period at the Los Angeles International Airport while en route to the upcoming Academy Awards show. Officials from U.S. Immigration briefly detained the Oscar-nominated Palestinian director after he arrived at the airport. Burnat said when he arrived from Turkey accompanied by his wife and their eight-year-old son on Tues ...