And the Oscar goes to...

Although this might deviate slightly from a movie review, I'm just too excited to have let it passed. I am talking about the upcoming Academy Awards this February and boy do we have a competition this year! With the likes of Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Kate Winslet competing for the prized best actress award, we can definitely hope for a bang this time around. Their male counterparts aren't too far off the mark either with Sean Penn for his supposedly incredible performance in Milk (I will have the review of it when I get to see it...someday) and the surprising comeback of Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler directed by Darren Aronofsky, a superb filmaker in his own right whose other films include The Fountain and Requeim For a Dream, also nominated for best picture once. I am too overly estatic about Slumdog Millionaire because it sure is making all the buzz this year, especially after winning at The Golden Globes. It's been a year of filmaking frenzy, 2008. All the harder to take a pick!

So whose night will it be?

Eagle Eye

It's come in a little late but this movie is really worth watching. Though I wouldn't exactly put it amongst the best pictures of the year '08, it certainly had its thrills. One would appreciate perhaps, the efforts of D. J. Caruso (the director) trying his best to make the plot look as if its much to offer than what already is. The plot is set so hastily to make this happen, i.e. with the extended car chases and even more so the heavily perspiring chases on foot (Le Beouf must have had tones of vaseline tubs to go through with all that sticky sweat running down his face). For Le Beouf in particular, Eagle Eye was just a slight variation from his performance in Transformers where machines got the better of humans, only this time the machine had Julianne Moore's voice and his gal pal is no longer the young and hot Megan Fox. Coming back to the thrills I mentioned earlier, it lies in all the very futuristic but believable theories of how we're all being watched and that 1 in 5 of our phone calls are being tapped. This movie however, would give the FBI, CIA and NSA a run for their money with all of that made up crap, but it was entertaining to say the least, both for me and hopefully for you too.

Update

Wow...I know it's been too long since my last review and pardon me so but I've been caught up with a lot of work lately. Yes, it's taken me nearly 5 months to finally end this hiatus. Right...
There will be something very soon....I promise!