bhargav venu shastry

bhargav venu shastry

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  • Dev.D
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  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    ★★★½

  • Krull

  • Hey Ram

    ★★★

  • The Dark Knight

    ★★★★½

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  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    ★★★½

    The overlong first half brought this down for me, but only slightly. I loved the sequences where the Bride escapes the hospital, as well as the Hattori Hanzo scenes and MOST OF ALL THE VERNITA GREEN SCENE, but I still felt like they didn’t justify the film’s overall length, and felt like style over substance. The anime sequences could have been a minute long in total, honestly. They were all flash. (I say this knowing that there is a theory…

  • Krull

    Krull

    Caught the last 30 minutes on TV first thing when I woke up. Banging score, and some pretty cool effects. A very basic story, but a pretty creepy villain. This probably gave a couple thousand kids nightmares back in the day.

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  • 2 States

    2 States

    ½

    if Alia can play a South Indian i better be first choice to play srk in his biopic

  • O Kadhal Kanmani

    O Kadhal Kanmani

    ★★

    OK Kanmani is a film that tries to tackle modern romance, as well as relevant social concerns such as live-in relationships and commitment issues. However, the film falters in how it chooses to explore these themes, resulting in an occasionally touching, but overall uncommitted and half-baked final product. 

    The film offers a very surface level reason behind Adi and Tara’s aversion to marriage(an absent father for Tara and I guess being a pushover for Adi), and their convictions are not…

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