Don’t fuck with Walmart…Embrace the change – Corrupt DEA official Dennis’ advice to Ben and Cho on how to respond to the Mexican drug cartel in Oliver Stone’s new film Savages Beneath our thin cloaks of civility, clothes and chatter, truth be said, most of us are savages (yes, you too). But every once in […]
The Indian critics have spoken their minds on Bol Bachchan (Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan). And their verdict – Bol Bachchan is garbage. Just in case you schmucks were not aware, Bol Bachchan is a remake of the 1970s hit Gol Maal (Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami). The late Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed the 1979 […]
The 2010 Japanese romance Ghost is one of those unusual films. It’s not often that the Japanese remake a two-decade-old Hollywood movie. But since the Hollywood film Ghost was one of the biggest hits of the 1990s and given the enduring resonance of young romance thwarted, perhaps the remake was justified. Except in one crucial […]
If most Indian movies are insufferable trash, American movies are increasingly soulless bilge these days. Hollywood’s reliance on the computer gimmickry of Ironman, Spiderman, Superman, Batman or a vampire has become tiresome, at least to yours truly. It seems European filmmakers are the only ones who still make movies centered around real-life people. And more […]
British writer John Lanchester puts forth a riveting indictment of present-day London in his new novel Capital. By London, we mean a city where clueless people in the financial sector make obscene sums through reckless bets, where greed runs rampant at all level of society, drunkenness is the norm, conspicuous consumption a ritual and high […]
Bollywood actor Salman Khan and his family are nice people and never murder anyone. They’re always doing good deeds and Salman Bhai even runs a charitable outfit called “Being Human.” So sweet! I once saw Salman bhai wearing a “Being Human” T-shirt on the Internut. So cool, no? Christines in Mumbai Only Salman Khan’s family […]