Inception Review – The Emperor Has No Clothes Over the last decade, so much attention has been focused, first on Memento, then on Batman Begins and finally on Dark Knight that many movie buffs are unaware that in-between the first two movies Christopher Nolan also directed a fine movie called Insomnia. Hey, some moviegoers are […]
Life’s greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you. – Buster ‘Rant’ Casey, cited by Echo Lawrence in Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant – An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, P.13 Indeed, indeed. If we’ve learned anything at all in our sojourn on Planet Earth, […]
Despite all the noise and hoopla, the Imran Khan-Sonam Kapoor crap movie I Hate Luv Storys is NOT setting the box office on fire. Here’s how the mediocre shit fared in the second weekend at the U.S. box office compared to a few prominent Bollywood movies:
(For SI blog reader Racer44) As we’ve said time and again, everything in India is different. Be it the notion of honor, treatment of women, matters of love, poverty, child labor or corruption, in all of these and more India is sui generis. Mostly for the worse. Hell, even a simple English word encounter has […]
After a gap of a few decades, we watched the Football World Cup final. It was Spain vs Netherlands. Spain took the cup in the second 15-minute overtime but the match itself wasn’t very exciting. Rather ho-hum.
Finally, we had our first sip of Jägermeister, the famed German liqueur, a short while ago. Our verdict (on the liqueur that is) – Not bad. Not bad at all. Kinda like the cough syrup, but much thinner and, of course, a lot more alcohol in it. 😉 We like it. By the way, it’s […]