(For SI Blog Reader Shadowfax_Arbit and possibly many other Karthik Fans ) Since SI is in a Karthik mood lately, we sat down to watch Mouna Ragam (1986). Mouna Ragam is hailed as one of the finest films put out by Mani Ratnam, an highly overrated director in our not-so-humble opinion. Not surprising, given that […]
Continuing our love affair with Korean films, we watched Open City on Netflix Instant the other day. Open City (2008) touches upon an unusual, rarely explored subject inside the criminal underbelly of large cities – the lowly underclass of pickpockets. Pickpockets may not be as glamorous as the Mafia, counterfeiters or thieves carrying out big […]
Pope Benedict XVI, who was a Nazi in his younger days, is stepping down at the end of February. A Pope has not resigned in about 600-years. The last Pope to voluntarily step down was Pope Gregory XII in 1415. By all sensible accounts, Benedict XVI is a crazy nut with a hard line on […]
Most Tamil films skid into one of two categories – Real Bad (usually featuring Surya, Karthi, Vijay, Simbhu, Vombhu, Kombhu et al) and the Disgustingly, Hopelessly, Offensively, Obscenely Bad (buffoons like Ajith, Trisha and Vishal are fixtures in this genre). Since some of my readers have been lately wetting their jetties over a 17-year-old film […]
By Naveen The name Akshay Kumar is synonymous with mindless comedies and some of the most vile garbage from Bollywood. So, Special 26 was not even on the horizon for the choice of my weekend Bollywood fix. However my curiosity got the better of me after I learnt that Special 26 is made by the […]
By SI Blog Reader Vinith I watched Mani Ratnam’s Kadal yesterday in a nearly empty theater. I’d like to believe the empty hall is a favorable omen. Perhaps Tamil movie buffs are belatedly getting wiser to junk and no longer hesitant to to raise the middle finger to unrepentant directors. Awful Film Kadal is a […]