V for Vendetta Review – T for Time Waste?

(For SI Blog readers Boopalan, VJ Cool, KD and others) No, we wouldn’t go so far as trashing V for Vendetta. A watchable movie with some interesting dialogs, V for Vendetta (a 2006 film based on the eponymous DC Comics series) raised our hopes a few minutes into the movie that it could well be […]

Americans Beat Coolies at Web Programming

When it comes to web programming or any kind of programming, a lot of people tend to instinctively think of the Coolies aka Indians. The fraud-laden H1B, B1 and L1 Visa programs, large-scale outsourcing to India and Coolie factories like Infosys, Wipro and TCS have made Indians synonymous with programming skills. Increasingly, Indians are held […]

Damn, Koreans Make Great Crime Movies

By size, South Korea is smaller than the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu (100,000 sq km vs 130,000 sq km). In terms of population, Tamil Nadu has 72-million people versus 49 million for South Korea. The Tamil film industry and its larger Bollywood sibling make scores of films every year, most of them unwatchable […]

180 Review – Boring and Amateurish

By Naveen After tackling a surprisingly easy Friday evening Chicago traffic, we settled down into the comfortable seats of Big Cinemas (Niles, IL) with the hope of watching at least a mildly entertaining Tamil movie in the rather oddly named “180” – No Rules. When the show began, the censor board certificate revealed the official […]

The YouTube Music Video with 16 Million Views

We’ve listened to Ain’t No Mountain High Enough a million times. No, we’re still not tired of it. Au contraire, we can’t get enough of this extraordinary song. Because there’s magic in that song, originally sung by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. The song was also featured in the Hollywood film Step-Mom, remade by Bollywood […]

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