Ayan Review – Aiyo, Sori Padam

Ayan at U.K. Box Office – Ayyo, Embarrassing Dai Machchi, Indha Surya Padam oru Sori Padam da. Sori Padam. (Hey buddy, this is a scabies-infested movie). An ugly movie beyond redemption, Ayan is the latest piece of shit to emerge from the Augean sewers of Kollywood. With not even a fig leaf of a story […]

America’s Doctors – Greedy Scumbags

We’ve said this on several occasions. Doctors in the U.S. count among the worst living creatures. Animals in white coats. These shameless scumbags will do anything for a few nickels. The New York Times had an interesting article the other day about how doctors are making it very difficult for injured workers to get medical […]

Watching 12 Angry Men

Bowing to the insistent demand from SI reader guruprasad, we went over to Blockbuster yesterday and borrowed 12 Angry Men (guru, you owe us $2.03 or we’ll settle for a Vidyarthi Bhavan Masala Dosa). Released in 1957, 12 Angry Men is acclaimed director Sidney Lumet’s first shot at direction. Yes, Sidney Lumet. The same bloke […]

U.S. Auto Sales – Down, Down, Down

The only option left for the U.S. is to do a reverse secession of Michigan (a bigger entity ditching a smaller unit) because the old U.S. auto industry, by which we mean GM, Ford and Chrysler, is well and truly screwed. We don’t know why President Obama is throwing more bailout money into the Auto […]

Rewatching Slumdog Millionaire

We first watched Slumdog Millionaire in December last year. And liked it immensely. We predicted it would walk away with a big haul of awards and indeed it did. We’d been waiting for the DVD to watch the movie again and the Slumdog DVD arrived three or four days ago. Cheapos But we were reluctant […]

Wi-Fi Mobile Phone Shipments to see Explosive Growth

We don’t know about you. But over the last 12 months we’ve slowly got addicted to our Wi-Fi mobile phone (in our case, the Apple iPhone). No, we are not embarrassed to admit that it even accompanies us to the bathroom. 😉 We use our Wi-Fi mobile phone for reading news, responding to comments on […]