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 […]
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Kung Fu lies in everything. How we put on the jacket. How we take off the jacket. Everything is Kung Fu. – Jackie Chan’s character Mr. Han to Dre (Jaden Smith) in Karate Kid. If there’s one thing that inflames us more than the abominable sight of Indian adult ‘actors’ like Abhishek Bachchan, Trisha Krishnan, […]