Movie Time.
A hectic work schedule inevitably means that I end up watching movies to unwind, on normal days I can hardly gather enough courage to venture out to the theatres.

Kaal
We arrive late and thankfully the Shah Rukh and Malaika romp is over, the first scene unfolds to a breakneck driver trying to commit harakiri in a SUV. The most important ingredient of a "horror" movie is the background score and how the director builds up the music and tension to a particular scene. In this matter the duo of Salim -Sulaiman fail miserably, the score is bone-jarringly loud all the time. Readers please note, the forthcoming Urmila flick , Naina (a take off the Eye) also has the same duo composing music. Forewarned is forearmed. Anyway, for me the only fun part of the movie is when Esha is strangled, by her own stupidness I may note (I would assume that anybody who has watched horror movies wont venture out in the middle of the night and in a jungle to fetch a pail of water..sure recipe for a grisly funeral). Before the movie I had been a victim of this email chain which confidently assured me that Esha is the villain of the piece and she unleashes the tigers on everybody else. So when the lady dies, I rejuvenate my shattered eardrums to pay attention to the flick By far the high(?) point of the movie. I would love to be unleashed with a Mr Karan Johar in Orbit National Park. I certainly wont need ghostly powers to scare the bollocks out of him, or decapitate him for the greater good of hindi cinema. Dude, stick to making those weepies with your clique, leave the thriller genre alone.

Hitch
The best movie of the three. Total time pass. One of the best examples of the rom-com genre.
Watch it definitely.

Kingdom of Heaven
If the director had concentrated more on the movie, rather than trying to make it a superstar vehicle for Orlando Bloom the movie would have turned out much better. It has all of Ridley Scott's trademarks, heroic figures, bloody battle scenes, enthralling cavalry charges, and promiscuous women. Thankfully Saladin is not potrayed as an illiterate yokel, but rather as a cool, sophisticated and benevolent leader. In fact it's the Christian leaders who come out as barbaric opportunity. No wonder the Vatican was first of the block protesting about the movie.
Another thing, the templars are also depicted as rank bloodthirsty bad guys. Most of the literature I have read marks them out as decent, balanced knights . Wonder which version is right? Maybe Mr Dan Brown will clarify