We must be made of stern stuff, eh. Else, we’re gluttons for punishment. You ask why? After enduring the unendurable Raavan (Hindi) this morning, here we are in the theater waiting for the Tamil Raavanan to start. The Hindi version was so pathetic that we’re optimistic that the Tamil version can’t get any worse. Vikram […]
Raavan Box Office: Disaster, Act of God, Pathetic Raavanan Review – Tamil Shit Better than Hindi Shit Somebody, please, please euthanize that moron Abhishek Bachchan tout de suite. And while we’re are at it, let’s pull the life-support plug on the other nincompoops too, i.e. Ash, Vikram and Mani Ratnam. For it’s this wicked quartet […]
Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection English women only hope to find in their butlers. – Somerset Maugham in The Razor’s Edge p.164 Folks, The Razor’s Edge is another delightful book (at least, so far) by Somerset Maugham. As in Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence, we have a strong, unconventional […]
Raavan Box Office: Disaster, Act of God, Pathetic The Bollywood monkeys are out of the cage, again. And their antics in the new Hindi film Raavan are evoking nothing but scorn, withering scorn, from some critics. King-sized disappointment, waste, uninspiring, mediocre and silly are only some of the epithets Indian movie critics are hurling at […]
(For SI Blog reader Guruprasad) Some movies are indeed for the ages. Neither the passage of time nor the march of technology (like color, surround-sound, 3D et al) or new forms of entertainment can diminish their lustrous appeal. Like for instance, the 1957 Hollywood murder/court-room drama Witness for the Prosecution, our fifth Billy Wilder movie […]