Terminator Salvation Review

A Terminator movie without Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be difficult to digest after all Arnie had made Terminator a household name. Terminator Salvation is the latest in the Terminator series after The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Joseph McGinty Nichol, better known McG who had directed Charlie's Angels and Full Throttle helms the movie. The Dark Knight's Christian Bale takes up the responsibility of saving the world and Sam Worthington plays a mystery character.

The movie is set in 2018 and the atmosphere is post-apocalyptic. An artificial-intelligence network called Skynet has arranged for the earth’s machines to rise up and launch an attack on mankind. Only a few men and women led by John Connor (Christian Bale) stand between the machines and extinction of mankind. Skynet's pinpoints John's father Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) as their main target. John and others live in the fear of being spotted and killed by digitally-enhanced exterminating robots. Things get complicated with the arrival of a stranger Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington).


Marcus faces a death row and awaits execution. He is visited by Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) who offers him a kiss if he agrees to allow his body to be used for cyborg research. There is a lot of mystery that surrounds Marcus. John Connor has doubts if Marcus, who roams around with a mixture of guilt and aggressive machine-blasting fury has retained his human traits or whether he is an agent implanted by the enemy among their ranks.

The screenplay of the movie is weak and it seems robots being programmed to destroy the human race is the one and only plot in the movie. Christian Bale seems ordinary in most of the movie and allows Sam Worthington hijack the attention of the audience. Arnold appears as a robot for a brief period in the movie reminding us of the hay days of the Terminator series. Other characters have been wasted and hardly make an impression in the movie.

Terminator series has been famous for showcasing effects and technology ans setting benchmarks for Hollywood but most of the technology showcased in Salvation is pretty average. Many a times it seems like a flashback of the earlier movies in the series. The sound effects in the movie lack the degree of sonic sophistication which die-hard Terminator fans are used to. The movie seems like a misfit in the Terminator saga.....Read More

Did Ash play a wicked game with Sonam?

Sonam Kapoor terribly upset with Aishwarya Bachchan as the latter stood as a roadblock to her walking the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. Sonam who had been signed as a brand ambassador for L'Oreal and was to walk the red carpet a Cannes with other beauties including Aishwarya, Penelope Cruz, Kerry Washington, Beyonce Knowles, Eva Longoria and Scarlett Johansson.

The excited Sonam in an interview dug her own grave when she offended Aishwarya. Sonam had said would be endorsing the youth brand and Aishwarya would appeal to the older women. This certainly did not go down too well with the former Miss World who has been a face of L'Oreal in India for years. Ash refused to walk the red carpet with Sonam and the L'Oreal had to bow down before her demands.

L'Oreal on its part maintained that Sonam's comments had created a lot of adverse effect and to prevent any escalation of the controversy they had asked the Saawariya actress....Read More

Akshay-Twinkle in obscenity row

Akshay Kumar recently walked the ramp in the Lakme Fashion Week for designer Tarun Tahiliani. After doing his act he went to wife Twinkle Khanna and asked her to unbutton his jeans. This act brought in cheers and roar from the crowd but a certain section was shocked and considered it to be obscene and in bad taste. Little did Akki know that his unbuttoning act would turn into a major obscenity row.

A social worker Anil Nair has submitted a written complaint against the actor, his wife Twinkle, the designer and the organisers of the show to the Vakola police station. He has urged the police to book them for indecent, vulgar and obscene behaviour and submitted clipping and photographs of the event. He said they should be booked under section 292 related to sale of obscene objects and section 293, related with sale of obscene objects to young persons.....Read More

Bigg Boss house mates pay tribute to Goody

After her racism controversy with Shilpa Shetty on the sets of Celebrity Big Brother, Jade Goody had come to India to win the hearts of the Indians. She was considered to be the most promising celebrity when she took part in the reality show Bigg Boss. The producers had paid the highest price tag to rope in Goody as the only international star on the show.

It is very ironic that Goody's battle with cancer started during the show when her reports revealed that she had been diagnosed with cancer. She immediately left the Bigg Boss house but her house mates still remember her and cannot believe that Goody is no more. They still remember seeing her off from the Bigg Boss house in Lonavala and never imagined that will be the last time they would see her.

Debojit Shah said that things happened so fast that he is yet to come in terms with her demise. He added that she was very lovely and also had a smile on her face and was often heard humming tunes of famous Hindi songs. Another house mate Ketaki Dave said that all of them had hoped some miracle would happen and she would be cured.

Raja Chaudhary said he was shocked to hear the new and was sad especially for her kids and worried about them. Calling her a gem of a person he said it was really funny when Payal Rohatgi would translate all that was said in the house to her in English and Goody would try to reply it in her broken Hindi......Read More

Indian to be the next American Idol?

American born Indian Anoop Desai has made it to the last thirteen of American Idol. The number might be considered unlucky by many around the world but surely not for Anoop. The North Carolina born singer's skills ensured that a special place was created in the final list as the format of the show allows only 12 contestants in the last round.

Host of the show Ryan Seacrest explained that the move came as a result of the shock that fans expressed in the past when deserving candidates could not make it to the final round of the show. He added that till the Top 5 is reached judges can save a singer from getting voted out to preserve real talent on the show......Read More

Abhi wanted to sleep with Zeenat Aman

He might have one of world's most beautiful woman Aishwarya Bachchan as his wife but as a kid Abhishek Bachchan fantasised the idea of sleeping with Zeenat Aman. In the upcoming episode of Farhan Akhtar's Oye! It's Friday the Junior Bachchan reveals that he admired Zeenat Aman so much that even at that tender age he wanted to bed her.

Abhishek recalls the incident happened on the sets of Mahaan in 1983 starring his father Amitabh Bachchan and Zeenat Aman. The entire cast and the crew were having dinner and once Zeenat got up to hit her bed Abhishek followed her and asked if he could join her in her room......Read More