Vedham (Telugu)

Cast: Allu Arjun, Anushka, Manchu Manoj, Manoj Bajpai, Lekha

Direction: Krish (Radhakrishna)

After watching lot of path-breaking movie, this film arrives as a breath of fresh air. It’s another inspiring film from the maker of ‘Gamyam’. To make his film believable, the new age filmmaker sketches the realistic characters. The street cable guy (Allu Arjun), sex worker (Anushka) and Manchu Manoj are pursuing big dreams to accomplish them by anyway. Allu Arjun, Anushka and Manoj deserve honor for taking a break from same masala roles and for joining hands with new-age filmmakers to change the face of Telugu cinema.

Allu Arjun is a cable guy who is in love with a super-rich girl while faking to be rich. And Manoj wants to become a rockstar by dismissing the pleas of his mother to join the defence forces, whereas sex worker Anushka wants to leave her small town and arrive in city to make big money in her profession. The rest of the story is all about how these people overcome their obstacles to realise their dreams. Allu Arjun gets audience attention with his performance and Anushkha again showcases her acting brilliance.

The Karate Kid (English)

Cast: Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Taraji P Henson, Wenwen Han

Direction: Harold Zwart

The kid Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) moves to Beijing with his mother (Taraji Henson) and the school bullies kept on beating him whenever they see him talking to Mei Ying. Dre realises its time to hit back and finds karate teacher Mr Han (Jackie Chan).

The film does have a lot to offer to young adults, but fails to rise to cult status. And that's only because the martial arts display is somewhat marginalised by the drama and relationship building which takes up a lot of screen time. The semi romance between Mei Ying and Dre and the prolonged training sequences involving Mr Han and Dre do seem to test the patience of our adrenalin-driven young viewers. Jackie Chan sheds his comic scene for a more serious show; Jaden is fluid motion and poetry and the locales are stunning.

Shutter Island (English)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo

Direction: Martin Scorsese

In 1954,at the Ashecliffe Asylum houses was with the criminally insane on the isolated Shutter Island. US Marshal Ted Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) arrives from Boston to investigate the mysterious disappearance of one of the inmates from the asylum. He hope to unravel the mysterious going-ons, specially when he is followed by a team of hostile doctors, headed by Ben Kingsley.

The US Marshal (Leonardo) is haunted by two memories as the first being his war record where he pass through heaps of bodies before shooting down German guards in cold blood and the second vision involves the murder of his three young kids, followed by the violent death of his wife. The sudden disappearance of his assistant (Mark Ruffalo) further adds to the confusion. The film however does get bored down a bit by its gloomy overtones and its flashbacks which tend to distract. But the hammering climax is more than makes up for these minor flaws.

Robin Hood (English)

Cast: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Max von Sydow

Direction: Ridley Scott

Robin Hood, the famous bandit robbed the rich to feed the poor, he was Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe), a archer in the army of King Richard. And like all other patriotic Englishmen, he was fighting on two front with first Prince John (Oscar Issac) who sucks the common men dry with his irrational tax system and second which was working through an English spy, Godfrey (Mark Strong).

Scott has chosen on a period of time before the legend of Robin Hood was actually born. Unlike the one who leads his men through one archery encounter after the other in the earlier versions, this Robin is a real hero who bathes, dines and breakfasts in simple way. Even his romance with Lady Marion is fleeting and cries out for Bryan Adam's. Marion knows how to defend herself, well and proper.

Nightmare on ELM Street (English)

Cast: Quentin Smith, Nancy Holbrook, Jackie Earle Haley

Direction: Samuel Bayer

A group of highschoolers are having nightmares about a clawed killer fearing them in their dreams. The strange thing is that their injuries turn out to be real and they end up facing a bloody death while asleep. Freddy Kreuger's back as teen slasher, returns after sequels which seen him as his bloodsport and he has consumed 137 youngs already, who were living at the houses in Elm street.

But a simple school gardener who was falsely accused of a crime he never committed and faced to death by a gang of victim’s parents. Now that's left for Rooney (Nancy Holbrooke) and Kyle (Quentin Smith) to discover, as they try to evade sleep and death in a order. But the killer has the ability to jump out from nowhere, even if it happens to be the bath tub, the wall paper, the mirror. This film have some old fashioned scares that still work and a villain (Jackie Earle Haley) whose sword-scissor hands is both fun and fearful.