Movie Review: The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Nicolas Cage deserves better!

Now, The Sorcerer's Apprentice will not disappoint most cinema-going viewers. It is light and happily superficial, without much story foundation to the special-effects and heavy action.

We are not complaining, after all feuding magicians means limitless escapism and VFX galore.Then there is Nicolas Cage, impressive again as a magician, traveling through centuries to find an apprentice (Jay Baruchel, adequately nerdy) who can free him and destroy evil (again) and save the world. Thwarting him is another magician, a friend-turned-foe, played with a wicked relish by Alfred Molina (Dr.Octopus in Spiderman 2). Then there are the mandatory love interests, we see disappointingly little of Monica Bellucci (trapped as she is in a jar for most of the running time), the sweet Terasa Palmer charming in a limited role.

A bit of Harry Potter, a bit of The Lord of the Rings and some originality make up for a entertaining two-hour watch without ever taxing your mind. Director Jon Turteltaub had directed the satisfying National Treasure (Starring Cage again), and here too he adds thrills and some humorous repartee to keeps it all pleasing. Buy your popcorn and even if you blink a lot or take some loo breaks, you won't regret it. 

Movie Review: Bolt: Dog, Cat, Hamster and Life Lessons

Minutes into the movie, the uninitiated will see it as another superhero, er...superdog stuff, but it isn't.

Bolt is the star of a action TV series, great pains are taken by the show producers to believe that all that is happening around him is real, even his non-existent super powers. It is when the TV producers decide that Penny - Bolt's cute owner has to be kidnapped by the 'green-eyed man' that things go wrong - Bolt escapes the studio in search of her.

Along with alley cat Mittens and his 'No.1 TV fan' - Rhino the Hamster, Bolt discovers the truth and what's more to be a dog. A marvel in animation, sparkling with funny one-liners and some hard truths, Bolt is an unmissable experience for movie-buffs.

Movie Review: WALL-E: The Joy of Love

Make-believe, that is what cinematic art creates, and there is nothing more magical than watching it unfold on a 70mm theater screen.

WALL-E has an improbable tale of robots with emotions, yet director Andrew Stanton expresses it in animation with great (he)art and conviction. It is better that you do not know the story, for the best movies are meant to be experienced. Go for it!