We don’t know how folks in India go about buying big-ticket consumer electronics items. But in the U.S. consumers rely a lot on reviews conducted by independent third parties or posted by previous buyers (who are hopefully more knowledgeable than you and are not shills for the products). Of all the third party reviews, the […]
Folks, Tamil Padam is coming to the U.S. this Friday. Wonder why the schmucks are releasing the movie a week later here. We won’t be surprised in the least if the Indian grocery/DVD stores are already renting out the DVD. Be that as it may, the movie has won decent reviews as the first Tamil […]
(by SI blog reader Racer44) Well folks, a spoof movie (that is, a proper one, not a bits-and-pieces-spoof, most-parts-torture movie like Goa) finally makes its way to Tamil cinema. To some, that ought to be reason enough to go watch this film. And I wouldn’t stand in their way. Compared to the unwatchable tripe trotted […]
(For SI blog reader unknownvirus) At last. At last, we watched The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band), a movie we’d been planning on seeing for several weeks but could manage only this past Sunday in Philadelphia. By now, the chattering classes must surely have heard of this German film, which won the prestigious Palme d’Or […]
These days if it’s a Salman Khan movie, it’s got disgrace written all over it at the box office. And so it is with Salman’s latest junk a.k.a. Veer. After a bad opening, Veer is in extremis now. Here, see for yourself why it’s time Salman Khan bids adieu to films: Related Stories Veer Box […]
Ram Gopal Varma’s Friday release Rann has received the middle finger from Bollywood fans at the U.S. box office while Ishqiya, which debuted on far fewer screens here, has fared well. What probably crushed Rann (Amitabh Bachchan, Sudeep, Mohnish Behl, Rajat Kapoor, Ritesh Deshmukh) at the box office was the poor reviews it received at […]