by Sadia Ashraf Director Alexander PayneAlexander Payne's film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, is refreshingly time stalled. The tone that Payne perfected in his 2004 Sideways, is so measured here, it seems to cheekily thumb its nose at frantic, time-accelerated CGI thrillers while saluting its numerous Oscar nominations. The film makes proclamations on current issues— family relationship building ...

By Sadia Ashraf Mirror, Mirror (2012) may not stimulate the gray matter but will certainly delight that the eyes.  Directed by Tarseem Singh, the movie employees his customary visual extravagance that is a gastronomic eye-feast, resembling his other films Cell (2000), The Immortals(2011) and The Fall (2006) --where story is often sacrificed for the spectacle.  Singh’s trademark imagination overcomes the sto ...