‘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 […]
Yet another Bollywood movie has turned into a disaster at the U.S. box office. Hey, who’s surprised. Featuring that worthless actress Deepika Padukone and Farhan Akhtar, Karthik Calling Karthik, which released in 70 theatres here, managed to gross only a piffling $179,643. Here’s how Karthik Calling Karthik fared compared to a few prominent Bollywood movies […]
Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid Besides demonstrating callous insensitivity towards disbelievers and making frequent threats of the blazing fire awaiting those who refuse to repose their faith in him, Allah also exhibits a bigotry towards men whose sexual orientation differs from the mainstream. In short, Allah is a homophobe. You have Allah’s anti-gay […]
(For SI blog reader Gandhiji) The Netflix summary of the 1996 film Carried Away describes lead actor Dennis Hopper’s performance in the film as a tour de force. Let’s see if the film lives up to the hyperbole. Besides Dennis Hopper, the 1 hour-48 minutes movie features Amy Locane, Amy Irving, Julie Harris and Hal […]
(For SI blog readers Twig, Supergirl and GaneshKumar) By the abysmal or non-existent standards of Telugu films, Aithe (2003) is a decent movie. Truth be said, it’s hard to believe those unschooled Tollywood louts made this film. Whether this movie is just an aberration, the side-effect of a solar eclipse or a radiation leak, we’d […]