Everybody's Fine

Sometimes we lie because it seems like the most convenient thing to do and sometimes because we need to judge other people's convenience. People who we don't know well appear to be fine simply because we don't know them well.

This movie is rather precious as it addresses loneliness - something that will most probably be forced upon us as we age. Robert is begging for some company throughout the movie and it is not easily seen...
Another thing this movie addresses is, well, what I mentioned earlier - lying. Keep the peace my friends, it usually works out :)
Robert De Niro is a widower who now lives alone and his 4 children live all across the US. He believes that things are fine with his children but, as most things go, things are far from fine. I must say that even though things tend to be 'not fine', all in all, things have a way of becoming fine - just look at the half full glass where the other half is full of precious air.

Needless to say, towards the end, my eyes were watery.

Lakshya

Another grossly under-rated movie. This movie did not do well commercially but was outstanding because of Farhhan Akhtar's vision combined with his ability to portray that vision. I loved the way he took his time with the movie and tried his best not to succumb to commercial demands. I must also add that he did a fantastic job with Hritik Roshan. Hritik's acting in Koi Mil Gaya was appreciated but I found it too 'in my face' and he was still Hritik Roshan.
In Lakshya, Hritik as a college kid was the perfect confused college kid, Hritik as a new entrant in the army seemed correctly raw, Hritik leading his team for the final fight was the focused leader. It's only in the dance scenes that I saw Hritik Roshan and not the character.

Farhan made the Indo-Pak 'battle' classy and slightly believable and not as commercial and dramatic as Border, but therein lie the pitfalls of such a movie: The masses don't really like such movies.

Scene: An hour or so before the end, Hritik rushes to the opening of a bunker while bellowing the movie battle cry "Dhavaa" and gunning the infiltrator down :D

People forget what the movie was meant to be about: Lakshya, loosely translated to 'Goal'.
I loved Hritik's transformation from a chilled out and carefree / careless college kid to a kid trying to prove himself by joining the army to a young man in Kashmir to the man hoisting the flag at the disputed mountain peak.

Glee

You know what's missing in most movies nowadays? Heart. They may be cinematically brilliant and the actors might be better performers(?) but a certain truth is missing from even the most sincere movies today.
Glee is not a movie. Glee is a TV show which is also a musical. The TV show is such that I do end up greeting each episode with glee :)
Much of the show is nonsensical and far-fetched but that is exactly what musicals tend to be. Individual stories, songs and the performances tackle the minute miseries of our time. What this show manages to do is not easily describable but I can say that it makes me want to sit back, relax and just watch. I find it funny that I lock my door and try to dance along once in a while. The ease with which I watch it is greater than that while watching FRIENDS or Seinfeld. The show is a must watch.
The problem with TV shows is that it's difficult to sustain the same enthusiasm and art with which the first couple of seasons are created. We shall wait and see.
(Side note: The lead character - Will Schester (Matthew Morrison) - is incredibly cute and hot at the same time. The fact that he is a brilliant dancer just makes it difficult for me to remain straight.)