Island Chic’s Babble

Here are some movies on my ‘Recommended watch list’ of random movies I have recently seen. These are not of any specific genre. These just happen to be some favourites among the lot I’ve watched in the last few weeks. Thought it might be worth a mention.

1. The Boy In The Striped [...]

Early yesterday, famous Bollywood actor and filmmaker Feroz Khan died of cancer at his home in Bangalore, India.

According to media sources, he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2008 and had been undergoing treatment in a hospital in Mumbai. However he passed away in his family farm house, surrounded by family members.

Khan is survived [...]

My favourite way to relax after work on Wednesday and Thursday nights is to curl up on my couch with some snacks and watch American Idol Season 8. I’ve been an ardent fan of American Idol for years and thought it will be fun to play a little guessing game!

Now that we are left [...]

Thanks to my 1 Terabyte hard drive which crashed a few weeks ago, I am now left with no idle entertainment, i.e. my huge collection of feel-good movies that I keep saved for myself and my couch is now officially gone! Murphy is adamant that he’ll mess with me as much as he [...]

“Slumdog Millionaire” has done it again! The not-so-big bollywood flick about the slum boy who made it big in the Indian version of the TV show “who wants to be a millionaire” just won 8 Oscars at the 2009 Academy Awards, including the Oscar for best picture of the year. Full List of nominees and [...]

Happy Birthday Jennifer Aniston! One of our favorite FRIENDS’ actors, Jen Aniston is 40 years old today & still looks as fabulous as ever!
Here’s 40 things that UK Mirror says we must know about Jen! Enjoy the list.
1) Jennifer, who turned 40 on February 11 2009, is six years and four months older than love [...]

Sunday night homecooked dinner and a group of fun buddies, Adam Sandler Comedy, “You don’t mess with the Zohan (2008)” was the cherry on top! Practically laughed till our mouths were sore, in spite of the crude sexual humor that sometimes went overboard with the ‘bit-too-vivid’ pelvic thrusts.

Directed by Dennis Dugan from a script written [...]

A bit of a sore throat and minus weather outside compelled me to be a couch potato for the afternoon and I tell you it turned out to be quite rewarding! I watched the now two year old Kenneth Branagh’s movie, Sleuth.

Sleuth, an adapted screen play from a sensational stage play in the 1970’s showed [...]

Slumdog Millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, whose life is about to change with the answer to just one question on the Indian version of the television show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”

As millions of people await the [...]

The average budget movie about the poor orphan who goes to “Kaun Banega Crorepati” (Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”) stole the lime light at this year’s Golden Globe Awards with four victorious awards for best drama, best director, best screenplay and best original score.
Though I haven’t seen the movie yet, I [...]