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Siraj Syed

Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 

Paddington, Review: Please see this film. Thank you. In 1956, a BBC cameraman bought a small toy bear left alone on a shelf in the iconic Selfridges store, London, for his wife Brenda. Named...

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bear
Ben Whishaw
Deepest Peru
Hugh Bonneville
Michael Bond
nicole kidman
Paddington
Paul King
Sally Hawkins

American Sniper, Review: Kyler instinct--all hits, no misses! Clint Eastwood told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz recently that he was not fond of the war in Iraq, but was "always sympathetic to...

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Bradley Cooper
Chris Kyle
Clint Eastwood
Iraq
Sienna Miller
sniper
The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

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IFFI Goa 2014
Open Forum
Mike Pandey
IDPA
A.K. Bir
Shaji Karun
Rajendra Talak
Satardekar

Taken 3, Review: Haven 3--End of the road for fugitive Mills Kills Liam Neeson returns as ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills in Taken 3, aka Tak3n (no spell-check required), the latest film in the...

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Bryan Mills
Car chases
Dougray Scott
Forest Whitaker
liam neeson
luc besson
Tak3n
Taken 3

Big Eyes, Review: Submissive painter and harmful charmer, making waifs Big Eyes! Horror? No. Psychological thriller? No way. Comedy? In part, yes. A biopic about a hypnotist? Close, but it’s about a...

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amy adams
Christoph Waltz
Danny Huston
Ed Woods
Jason Schwartzman
Krysten Ritter
Margaret Keane
Tim Burton
Walter Keane