Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. is tooting the horn that cumulative sales of its PlayStation 2 gaming system has hit 150 million units (as of January 31, 2011). It took Sony 10 years and 11 months to reach this supposed milestone since PlayStation 2’s debut in Japan in March 2000. To feed the PlayStation 2 beast, […]
Here’s one of the biggest conundrums for all ye schmucks. Why is it in Hindu majority India it’s the Muslim heroes in Bollywood who walk away with all the glory, a lot of the moolah and most of the box office successes while Hindu heroes increasingly turn into zeroes. Movie after movie featuring Hindu heroes […]
If you couldn’t afford to pay $300 (with two-year contract) for a spanking new 32GB iPhone 4, there could still be some hope for all ye starving but salivating desperadoes. There’s considerable buzz lately that Apple will launch new models of its wildly successful smartphone at about half the size of the current iPhone 4. […]
If the Hawaiian pop sensation Bruno Mars fails to win more than one Grammy tomorrow, we’ll consider putting a bullet between our eyes. Seriously. We discovered Bruno thanks to a piece in the current issue of New Yorker (February 14 & 21, 2011, p.120-122). Since we purchased his top of the charts Grenade track on […]
Never let it be said that Bollywood star Akshay Kumar misses any opportunity to stoop to new lows with each new movie. With an unerring instinct for the asinine, Akshay’s new movie Patiala House is so bizarrely stupid that you wonder throughout the 2 hour 20-minute ordeal if this trash was made by humans at […]
(For SI blog reader Gandhiji & his/her/their many avatars) We live in an age when the trivial, insignificant, repetitive and talentless often triumphs over talent, the original and the substantive. And never more so than in the movie business. Movie after movie (be it Indian or Hollywood) has either love or action as their raison […]