Mr & Mrs Iyer – One of the Better Indian Movies

(Recommended by SI Blog reader ‘Hari‘) Most Indian movies are horror shows churned out by thieves and dodos, featuring murderers, convicts, rapists and retards and watched primarily by half-wits who can’t/won’t wank off without the crutch of a skimpily-clad Bollywood siren gyrating obscenely on the screen. Mercifully, once in a rare blessed while, like the […]

Sweet, Sweet – Netflix Loses $8b in Market Cap

We couldn’t be happier. In a matter of weeks, the actions of the greedy chutias at Netflix have triggered a loss of $8 billion in the company’s market capitalization. The online DVD rental and movie streaming firm’s shares have fallen over 50% from a high of $304.79 in mid-July to $143.75 on Monday. Why the […]

Even After 170 Daily Deal Sites Kiss the Dust, There’re Still Another 360 Around

Madness. Sheer Madness! As we’ve said often, this daily deal/coupon madness has reached epic heights in the U.S. Perhaps, it’s because of the recession with fewer dollar bills in consumers’ wallets. Perhaps it’s a greedy frenzy that’s consumed the people here into an orgy of consumption. Or perhaps it’s clueless businesses desperately trying to get […]

Engeyum Eppodhum Review – A Different Kinda Film

By Chennai Arun Engeyum Eppodhum is a new Tamil film that hit the screens the other day. Directed by M.Saravanan, previously an assistant to the thieving swine aka A.R.Murugadoss and jointly produced by the Thiruttu LaKaBa (thieving wine) and Fox Star Studios, Engeyyum Eppodhum stars Jai, Anjali, Ananya and Sarvanand. Sathya has composed the music. […]

Blackberry PlayBook Tablets – A Bloody Disaster; Will PlayBook be the Next TouchPad?

Research in Motion, maker of the Blackberry phones and the PlayBook tablet, disclosed its PlayBook shipments today for its fiscal second quarter (ended August 27, 2011). And they are HIDEOUSLY  UGLY. RIM said it’d shipped 200,000 Blackberry Playbook tablets into the channel. Yes, a piffling 200,000 PlayBooks were shipped into the channel in the entire […]