Rihanna - Diamonds

I ain’t a great admirer of Rihana. What puts me off is her frivolous and casual attitude towards life. Barring a few   personal choices like the one mentioned, I guess she has got what it takes to make life larger than what it is. And what’s intriguing is that almost all of her songs have a haunting effect on the mind. In a way there’s more than puzzling visuals, which dig deeper into the heart and kind of tickle it to life. Her songs are worth listening again and again. Especially numbers like Umbrella, Unfaithful, Russian Roulette… among others. My personal favourite  of course is “Shine Bright Like A Diamond”. Haven’t heard it yet? It’s time you did!

Back To the Future - Trilogy

When Zstudio threw a curve ball and announced to screen ‘Back to the Future’ Trilogy, I couldn’t believe it. For, this was exactly what I had in mind. To raid the video parlour for these three DVDs close to chez-moi, and revel in savouring them back to back. In reality, when these flicks first got released in the late 80s, we were only kids and watching movies in theatre were acts, occurring typically once in a blue moon. So, imagine the profound memories surrounding these – which incidentally make the series all the more worth watching. 

Anyways, who wouldn’t love to drool over a movie that has power-packed performance of Michael J. Fox and Christopher Llyod? And what better movie could there be than to watch “Back to the Future”? Lloyd’s acting as the crazy doc is damn adorable. His acting prowess flawlessly fills the shoes of the insane genius who invents time machine. Archetypal Fox, who time-travels into different eras, hardly fails to keep you at the edge of the seat with some close calls. This powerful combo makes for a sure-fire movie material. To top it off, the storyline, which whizzes from the past to the future to the present, is gripping and holds a thread of suspense hanging, always, adding up for some terrific viewing.

Among the series, part 2 is the most engrossing. What really holds you in the loop are the effects of traveling across timelines from future to present to past. What seem as casual travels across timelines leave a devastating trail of alterations to history. I particularly liked the part - where buffy from the future hops on time-travel machine and travels back in time and hands himself an almanac book; then quietly returns to the future. So, when Marty and Doc hop on time-machine and go to the present – Voila! Everything’s helter-skelter. To alter their present they must return to past and steal the almanac after Buffy has given it to himself. Only then would the record of present be set straight. Sounds Weird?  

Well, it gets thousand times weirder when you have Steven Speilberg throwing in a good measure of special effects. The phrase “Imagination runs wild” has no better grounding than here where you come across flying cars, skyjams, 3D holographics, flying hoverboards…and the lot.  Undoubtedly, there’s more than meets the eye and moi wouldn’t want to spill the beans and ruin your experience. I guess Zstudio has run these series twice, so there’s a very slim chance of it doing again. In case you have missed out on it, it’s time you got the DVDs. These flicks are really worth watching!