Carried Away – Boy, We Loved This Lolita Tale

(For SI blog reader Gandhiji) The Netflix summary of the 1996 film Carried Away describes lead actor Dennis Hopper’s performance in the film as a tour de force. Let’s see if the film lives up to the hyperbole. Besides Dennis Hopper, the 1 hour-48 minutes movie features Amy Locane, Amy Irving, Julie Harris and Hal […]

Aithe Review – Not Bad for a Telugu Film

(For SI blog readers Twig, Supergirl and GaneshKumar) By the abysmal or non-existent standards of Telugu films, Aithe (2003) is a decent movie. Truth be said, it’s hard to believe those unschooled Tollywood louts made this film. Whether this movie is just an aberration, the side-effect of a solar eclipse or a radiation leak, we’d […]

Critics Take a Leak on Bachchan Sr’s Teen Patti

The Amitabh Bachchan-Ben Kingsley starrer Teen Patti is receiving the thumbs down from movie reviewers. Here are excerpts from a sample of reviews: Reuters: “Teen Patti” is a textbook study in how most films slip uncontrollably in the second half and any element of thrill or suspense you may have felt disappears in the chaos […]

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa – Stupid Shit

Goat-fucking idiots! Offspring of lunatic donkeys! Shameless eunuchs from somewhere. Source – the drunks yelling in the beggar-van in Rohinton Mistry’s tour de force A Fine Balance P.323 Thank God, fictional drunks can’t watch Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa. For if they did, the tipplers wouldn’t hesitate one nanosecond before unleashing the same vitriolic barrage at (mis)director Gautam […]

We’ve Lost It; Yes, Completely Lost It

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa Review – Stupid Shit Folks, our worst fears and your best hopes have both been realized tonight. We’ve lost it. Not one small screw or even a few screws but all our screws have been threaded out of their sockets. Yes, we’ve braved the snow-storm and strong winds barreling up the North-East to […]

Sun Servers Screwed, Again

When market researcher IDC puts out its quarterly server numbers you can be certain of one thing – Sun will have the worst performance of all the major server vendors. Sun = Always the laggard. We have IDC’s 4Q 2009 server number estimates with us and as sure as night follows day Sun is again […]

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