Ever since we read the lengthy piece in last Sunday’s New York Times on the upcoming movie Alice in Wonderland, we’ve grown impatient at how slowly the days go by. Directed by Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland is a 3D extravaganza, albeit not one on the Avatar scale. Apparently, the movie was made using 2D […]
Ram, the Hindu God beloved of a billion stupid Indians, seems to be in an angry mood. So angry that the ‘God’ went on a RAMpage that took the lives of 65 of his devotees today in a stampede at the Ram Janaki temple in Kunda town of Pratapgarh district in the North Indian state […]
As best as we can tell, Amitabh Bachchan doesn’t look like a fire hydrant, a tree or a public urinal. Or, does he? Like dogs lifting their hind legs and letting go on a fire hydrant, UK moviegoers seem to have a Pavlovian urge to unzip and empty their fire-hoses on Amitabh Bachchan films these […]
Folks, what is it that Tamils in the UK drink? Whatever it is, could we please force some of the same down the deep throats of Tamils in the U.S., Tamils in India, Tamils in Malaysia, Tamils in Sri Lanka et al. It’s with mucho gusto we disclose to you that UK Tamils have soundly […]
‘Tis easy to be a friend to the prosperous, for it pays; ’tis not hard to be a friend to the poor, for ye get puffed up by gratitude and have your picture printed standing in front of a tenement with a scuttle of coal and an orphan in each hand. But it strains the […]
Last night, as we were poring over recent foreign releases on Netflix Instant Play our eyes fell on the German film A Woman in Berlin. Based on the eponymous book by an anonymous woman diarist, the movie is set in Berlin at the end of World War II. What was touted as The Thousand Year […]