Manmadhan Ambu BO – Shameful, Pitiful

Romance on the High Seas Review – Ulaga Madayan is a Shameless Thief Gun, knife, rope, the sea or the Annanagar Tower, take your pick, Kamal. Folks, Kamal Haasan’s Manmadhan Ambu has fared worse than Vijay’s Sura, the colossus of nonsense, at the UK box office. Bollywood Humgamma has put out the Manmadham Ambu U.K. […]

Music We’ve Acquired Lately 11 – L’Homme du Train, Sheila Ki Jawani, Inglourious Basterds et al

As the cold winter days relentlessly sound the come-hither dirge, we have but Bacchus and music for company. Here are some music tracks we’ve recently acquired: * Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? – A fine number from Paula Cole. According to the folks at Wiki, this song made it to the top ten of […]

Tees Maar Khan Box Office – Royally Screwed

Angry moviegoers collectively unzipped their fly and roundly peed on Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, a habitual beneficiary of theft, over his latest crap-show Tees Maar Khan. Tees Maar Khan – Rotten at Box Office Folks, Tees Maar Khan has fared miserably over the Christmas weekend at the U.S. box office. Universally scorned by critics, the […]

Quote of the Day – Somerset Maugham

I suppose no one ever has faith enough. – Philip Carey, in Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage. p.55 Despite bombarding God with prayers, the Almighty fails to fix young Philip’s clubfoot leaving him very disappointed. The sentence is a bitter, sarcastic indictment against God, against the doctrinaire belief that we must keep faith, against believing […]

L’Homme du Train Review – Swoonworthy Fare

Rarely ever do we watch a film and at the end tell ourselves, Man, this is so good. I’m gonna see it again. The French film L’Homme du Train (The Man on the Train) is one such delightful exception, a movie so bewitching that we plan to stream it a second time on Netflix Instant […]

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