What's happening at home ?!

That is a despicable thing to do; on a weekend when families get going, at crowded places and worst of all.. hospitals ! It's disbelieving and utterly incomprehensible.

What logic explains such acts? Expert analysts says BJP states are being targeted. But what religious or moral zeal explains blowing up families and hospitals? The injured for God's sake!!

X-Files .. I DON'T want to believe

..that any X-Files sequel could get this .. this... mushy and sentimental! Aaarg.. Scull the Mold. It's infecting the primary X-files.

No aliens in the plot this time. Something to do with psychic, but it seemed more to do with Mulder and Scully raking up each others' sentiments from the past. Try this; take the plot, remove the two agents (and their boss) and all traces of FBI and include Detective Goren and Eames and you get an unbeatable Law & Order - CI episode.

Yeah, it's that bad.. as an X-files, but good enough for an hour long action episode, of course after slashing all the mush.

Quoting an -Files-ite "too much normal movie stuff, and not enough X-Files; let down. The writers seem to have given in to movie execs and lost the very essence of what X-files is supposed to be"....

The Dark Knight

What do I say; I'm not a Batman fan, not in the least bit. So this movie was never on my cine-dar. I skipped it for two weeks and then gave in to a close friend's enthusiastic suggestion of a "Must watch". In retrospect I conveniently forgot that "close friend" is a most avid Batman fan!! Moronic of me!

Joker! Joker! Joker! That's all that matters. Christian Bale makes me go "Mmmmm" (remember 3:10 to Yuma?). but not even his ultra husky voice made me long for Batman to reappear on the screen. To be fair the action is good, the underlying psychology is powerfully potent and that's where the goodness stops.
I just can't imagine the superhero getting into a sentimental scene with his EX-girlfriend, who is incidentally dating the Greek-God-Good-Boy-Harvey-Dent, when the city is on the brink of anarchy. That's a Joke!

An obvious must-watch for Batman fans; more so for Heath Ledger fans and non-fans... but otherwise ... wait for Mandrake in 2009.