Get to Know About The Best Movies Of All Time

Trying to categorize the best movies of all time according to genre can be a nuisance. Each year comes with its own movie which always seems to be better than the previous year. However, in spite being released several years ago, there are those movies that captured the imagination of the world and moved millions to tears. Most of these often tend to revolve around true stories that shaped the lives of millions.
Herein I will look at some of the movies that turned the attention of the world to Africa. Thanks to these films, the heroes of these videos can rest in peace that the world got to know what was happening in the land.
Tears of the Sun
Tears of the sun, is one hell of a movie that will get you wondering how beastly some leaders can be. In a bid to keep power to them and ensure that their enemies are vanquished, they will not care how many lives are lost in the process. The story revolves around an American soldier who is sent to evacuate a missionary group deep in the heart on Nigeria. Sticking to their mission and refusing to rescue hundreds of others who when caught by the army will definitely be slaughtered, they take the woman only to return for the others after flying across her former mission and seeing the blood trail left behind. This is a true story of an American soldier who went against orders to see hundreds of lives saved. Tears of the Sun is one movie that will never bore you no matter the number of times that you have watched it.
Sometimes In April
We all remember what happened in Rwanda, a genocide that the world has never seen and wishes not see again. Sometimes in April is a movie that tells the story of a Hutu married to a Tutsi. When the Hutu turns against the Tutsi, he is forced to choose between his family and the army. After realizing that his name and that of his family is on the list, he entrust his family to the care of his Hutu brother who runs a radio station spreading hate speech. Later on, the family dies. What happens thereafter and how he gets to meet the brother in Arusha, is for you to find out.
Hotel Rwanda
The setting is the same, i.e. Genocide in Rwanda. One Hutu man goes against all odds to try and save thousands of lives in the hotel he works.

7 Khoon Maaf Movie Review

Expectations always make it harder and especially if you happen to be Vishal Bhardwaj. Since Maqbool, every Vishal Bhardwaj film has been looked at with great expectations and to be honest the filmmaker hasn't really disappointed. But nothing lasts forever and perhaps for the first time really Bhardwaj lets you down with 7 Khoon Maaf.
Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes (Priyanka Chopra) has been really unlucky in love but while people move on Susanna knows only one way to end a relationship. Susanna marries Major Rodriques (Neil Nitin Mukesh) and hopes that life on her farm with a maid (Usha Uthup) along with two men Friday and Amar (Vivaan Shah), an orphan she practically adopts, would be a bed of roses but life doesn't end up the way one imagines. Tired of her possessive husband who becomes worse after losing a leg in the line of duty, she along with her bunch of cronies kills him in accidental circumstances. During Edwin's funeral she notices Jimmy (John Abraham), a singer in the choir, and before she knows it Jimmy becomes husband number two.
She helps Jimmy to become a rock star but her beau's persistent drug problem and roving eye becomes too much to handle. So once Jimmy dies in strange circumstances she moves to Kashmir. She meets the soft hearted poet Wasiullah Khan (Irrfan) and becomes Sultana but bad luck seems to be her constant partner. The shy poet happens to be one big sadistic freak who beings out the 'Susanna' in Sultana and you know what happens when Susanna gets going.
She reluctantly gives love yet another chance with Nocolai Vronsky (Aleksandr Dyachenko), a Russian scientist, who lies about his family and children and what follows is a regular day for Susanna at work. Life comes a full cycle and Keemat Lal (Annu Kapoor), the investigating officer who suspected foul play with Jimmy's murder, is now a high ranking official who yet again saves Susanna from the gallows but in the bargain becomes husband number five.
He dies of a heart attack while making love to his wife and finally Susanna decides enough is enough. When Amar walks out of her life as she tries to seduce him, Susanna tries to end her life only to be saved by Dr. Modhusudhon Tarafdar (Naseeruddin Shah). Life's not fair to Susanna as she realizes that the shy doctor is prescribing death and then...you know what ensues. Finally fate shines on her and gives her a second chance but can Susanna change?
Loosely based on Ruskin Bond's short story, this should have been familiar turf for Bhardwaj as he's very comfortable with adaptations but 7 Khoon Maaf ends up being highly disjointed. Right from the moment it takes off the blocks, the film's ponderous as if it's prepping you for some interesting juncture but sadly that point never comes. Bhardwaj compels you to keep looking at the drama that unfolds on the screen with baited breath hoping for some sort of an aha moment but there's no real payoff. The somber mood that he creates helps generate the viewer's interest levels but with each murder you just stop caring.
The interesting thing about 7 Khoon Maaf is how Matthew Robbins' screenplay tries to root such a fantastical tale in reality. The production design, the costumes and a whole lot of detailing makes 7 Khoon Maaf visually a very convincing exercise. Also the manner in which the passage of time is shown- Edwin being decorated for his bravado during Operation Blue Star, Jimmy's dealer tells him that just as the world has moved on from the Berlin Wall and VP Singh government he should move on to bigger drugs and Nicolai being around her at the time India becomes a nuclear state, etc.- is nice touch to show the 45 year period in Susanna's life.
One wouldn't think that with someone like Priyanka Chopra killing seven husbands that include the likes of Irrfan and Naseeruddin Shah, a film could be boring but that's what a major portion of 7 Khoon Maaf ends up being. Chopra sinks her teeth very well into the character and systematically checks the boxes with skills that one would expect of such a chameleon but it's the script that lets her down. Irrfan with his poet is the only surprise in the lot and as one's not expecting Wasiullah to be a sadist the segment is by far the best. Naseeruddin Shah for some strange reason plays Tarafdar as Amitabh Bachchan would; Annu Kapoor gets the laughs and might just get a second lease of life much like Pankaj Kapur post Maqbool; Neil Nitin Mukesh gets to play a much older character and is quite interesting while John Abraham is well...just plain old John. But the weakest link of 7 Khoon Maaf is Vivaan Shah, who is highly unconvincing and really bad as Arun. The only one who perhaps understood Susanna to some extent, Arun is as important as the lady but Shah's boyish looks and flat voice is a mood killer.

The Real Housewives of Miami Finally Debuts

The Real Housewives of Miami has just debuted but there doesn't seem to be anything much happening. Does this surprise anyone? Has reality television gone too far? Who would really be interesting in a show of this nature? The South Beach show is not quite as hot and sizzling as it was expected to be. Cougars galore, all the women who claim to be anti-plastic surgery on the show are probably the ones who have had liposuction done! It is better to just tell the truth.
To Miami Next
After the successful run of The Real Housewives of New York City where the storyline was as hot as the women, much was expected out of this show. Housewife Larsa Pippen puts in a little distraction and oomph to an otherwise insipid and mundane show.  will probably be one of the first things on your mind when you watch the show or perhaps, the word ought to be plastic. On the show, Larsa is considered to be different from all the other cougars as she prefers to spend time with her family of four kids and former NBA star Scottie Pippen who is her husband.
Another Character
The Lebanese Assyrian bombshell sure presents some eye candy. Marysol Patton is another character on the show that is trying very hard to compete with the likes of Larsa. She very coolly states that she is entirely anti-plastic surgery at least "until it gets really really bad." What will constitute really bad for her is anyone's guess. It will probably be her agent or closest friend who one day whispers in her ear.
Never Know
The Real Housewives of Miami will be onscreen every Tuesday. Though their first show ratings were not all that great, it still remains to be seen if people will continue to watch all the liposuction denying real housewives in the weeks to come. One never knows, all sorts of strange reality shows are popular nowadays.

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Personally, I'd Like to Throw the Island Off the Island - Reality TV - You're Fired!

Well, here we are again, yes, it's that time again, as Hollywood determines for us what we have to watch. You'd think by now they would have figured out that the viewers, yes the viewers, the users, "power to the users" ought to be able to pick which pilots they like and vote on them. So, we know that "Two Men and a Child" is out along with Charles Sheen who got his rear-end laid off like so many other Americans - I can hear Warner Bros. Now "You're Fired!" to the voice of Donald Trump.
Speaking of the Donald, and I don't mean Disney's Donald Duck, I mean the guy who would be President, who always sports a babelicious hottie wife, and co-star contestants - well, I'm about ready to vote the Apprentice off my TV Set and the Island! In fact, I don't know about you, but I am tired of watching 'reality TV' completely, I mean there is nothing really reality based in any of that. For instance, I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and what those nincompoops are doing on the Donald's show isn't what we do in the real world.
Where they find all these ADHD, Bio-polar-melting, and Prozac induced minds is beyond me, and yes, it was funny the first couple of times, and yes it might be in its I don't know seventh season, but I haven't watched it sense. Look we have enough dummying down on the ding-dong social networking sites, we don't need TV competing with that nonsense. Does everyone in Hollywood think everyone out here in their living rooms are stupid?
And, yes, maybe they have a point, considering how people voted for the Teleprompter in Chief and all that, but if all these folks think America is so ignorant, why don't they try enlightening the people of this great nation rather than feeding moronic masses with mesmerizing and mundane minutia?
Not long ago, there was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal titled; "With Fairy Tales and Alternate Realities, TV Pilots Go High Concept - Edgar Allan Poe as a Private Investigator? Hill Street Hocus-Pocus?" by Sam Schiechner on March 7, 2011, which went through all the potential shows for the up-coming season, well that's just great, nothing really sounded all that good, but I am sure we are going to be force-fed more of the same, like we do every season.
So, I guess my TV stays on the weather channel and I'm only going to turn it on when it looks like it's getting cloudy out there. Yes, Hollywood has lost me, I guess they are firing their viewers too, fine, there is more to life than news, weather, sports, and Facebook anyway. Please consider all this.

Speed Racer and the Use of Chroma Key

Speed Racer is a 2008 movie based on the popular American cartoon series by the same name, which did 52 episodes on American television during 1967 and 1968. A few episodes of the cartoon have also been translated into comic books.
The story of the movie is about a young man called Speed Racer (played by Emille Hirsch) -- do not be astonished because that indeed is his name -- who can drive cars at extraordinary speeds and actually takes that up as his profession although he is miserable in his school work. His family runs a business of manufacturing racing cars and he is a great lover of the sport. He also has a girlfriend named Trixie (played by Christina Ricci) who is extremely supportive of all his actions.
Made by the famous Wachowski brothers, the movie is more of a cartoon that has come alive than a real motion picture. It is a treat to watch for young kids but will not appeal much to the older populace. Despite being packed from end to end with stuff that makes a movie unbearable, Speed Racer manages to be entertaining and fun. A major reason behind this is the fact that the Wachowski brothers have added to the film a series of special effects that makes the viewer literally gape in wonder. To make the movie spectacular, every action sequence was done utilizing the Chroma Key or Green Screen technique, as it is popularly known. The flamboyant visuals as seen in this movie had been witnessed in movies of the Matrix series only before this.
The Green Screen technology that has contributed significantly to the success of the movie deserves more detailed discussion. The Green Screen or Chroma Key is a process of editing pictures and movies by means of which a subject recorded on a camera can be morphed seamlessly into a scene that has been generated by other artificial means.
The main picture or subject is filmed in the foreground with a green screen at the back and the final background is edited as necessary and finally superimposed on the green background of the main picture.
The background, which is to be inserted, can be any visual image whose colors are not the same as that of the subject and the foreground of the image. However, although the process is named Green Screen there are newspaper restrictions on the color of the background to be used while filming the subject and the foreground as long as it is distinctly different from that of the background to be used in the final image.

Green Screen on TV - Talk Soup

'E!' is an entertainment television channel or a satellite TV network. 'The Soup' was a weekly series that was broadcasted on the network. Previously the show was called the 'Talk Soup' which was later remodeled and renovated to form "E!'s The Soup".
The series shows recaps and highlights of different other televisions shows and pop culture video scenes and selects the best ones to 'moments of the week'. The host cares to take care of the videos and clips with unique and absurd commentary and uninterrupted sarcasm. The popular comedian Joel McHale hosts the show. The show began its journey on the fourth of July in 2004 with the name "What the...? Awards" which was eventually changed to the very famous talk show The Soup.
E!'s The Soup had a green colored set with a screen at the right hand side of the host. There are various themes in the different segments of the show. At first the host introduces all the videos and clips to the viewers and the audience. Then each of the clips is played individually where he tends to comment the clips before moving on with the other videos.
The live audience is a huge support for him as it consists of the family members, friends and relatives of the video holder or the clip owner in a very small scale. The audience is truly supportive and involved in the show.
E!'s The Soup has revenant characters which consists of the dancing maxi pad, the most famous Manikin who is a bikini suit wearing man, two very unattractive person or nerds as they can be mentioned as who are dressed in Star Wars costumes.A house person or a graduate student who is often shot by the host McHale with special sound effects of a gunshot played in the synthesizer or sometimes with other instruments or sometimes just with vocal sounds.
Chewbacca's lawyer Jewbacca, the 'Spaghetti Cat' who always prefer eating spaghetti with 'The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet' and Tom McNamara who is a new release!
E!'s The Soup has quite a few number of levels or segments like 'Chew Stew' which shows the clip from other talk shows with voice over by Kelly Andrews, the producer, 'Chicks Man' which centers on the news of female celebrities, 'Reality Show Clip Time', 'Let's take some E!' and lastly sleeps with 'Clip of the week' until the same day, same channel and the same time.

Some Of The Best Boxing Movies Of All Time

Sports movies deliver chills, thrills and goose bumps when done right. They can bring cheers during triumph and tears upon defeat. Boxing is one of those sports that has intrigued people for years and some of the greatest movies of all time have come from within the ring. While everyone has a different list, here are what some consider to be the top five greatest boxing movies of all time.
#5 - Cinderella Man
Despite being a bit of a box office disappointment in 2005, Cinderella Man went on to achieve a great deal through the crowds and the Academy. Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard brought an uplifting story full of cheers to the big screen starring Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger. The movie highlights the biopic detailing James J. Braddock, who rose from the depression to win a rather shocking heavyweight championship.
#4 - The Quiet Man
Going back several decades, The Quiet Man stars John Wayne as a former boxer who vows never to fight again after killing a man in the ring. Upon marrying an Irish woman that publicly calls him a coward, he decides love is worth fighting for. The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and director John Ford won a Best Director Oscar for the film in 1952.
#3 - Million Dollar Baby
This is perhaps the most decorated boxing movie of all time and rightfully so. It won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Picture and Clint Eastwood won Best Director. On top of this, Clint Eastwood was nominated for Best Actor and Morgan Freeman and Hillary Swank received acting honors. The movie details a bond that is developed between a boxer and trainer inside and out of the ring following a horrific accident inside the ring.
#2 - Raging Bull
You cannot talk about boxing movies without mentioning Raging Bull. Robert De Niro won the 1980 Academy Award for his impersonation of real life boxer Jake LaMotta. The movie details the struggles of LaMotta with violence inside and out of the ring. It has often been regarded as one of the great films in history thanks to the directing of Martin Scorses and the supporting acting of Joe Pesci. The American Film Institute placed it at number four on the list of the 100 greatest movies of all time.
#1 - Rocky
Despite being one of the greatest movies of all time, Raging Bull fails to compare to Rocky in terms of boxing movies. At the time, the movie was written by an unknown actor named Sylvester Stallone. It was a surprise box office hit when it debuted in 1976 and essentially launched the career of Stallone. It is easily the most recognizable boxing movie, has iconic quotes, images, and scenes, and will forever go down as the greatest movie within the ring.