More often, though, the meat was cooked to the color of wet newsprint, inside and out, and salted so meekly that eating it was as satisfying as hearing a friend talk about a burger his cousin ate. – New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells on Shake Shack Burgers, NYT, 2/21/2012 Here’s what the wise […]
America’s worst rated cable company Comcast is rolling out a streaming service this week of old movies and TV shows. Available only to Comcast customers, the service will be called Xfinity Streampix and offered on both TVs and mobile devices. Streampix will offer content from multiple movie studios and programming providers including Disney-ABC Television Group, […]
Indian viewers of the superb Brazilian film Elite Squad – The Enemy Within (2010) can take great comfort that there are other countries in the world as screwed up, as corrupt and as rotten as Mera Bharat Mahaan. Elite Squad – The Enemy Within (Tropa de Elite 2 – O Inimigo Agora é Outro), a […]
By Naveen Once upon a time a new director graced the Tamil film industry. He soon gained name and fame with some very successful films. The simpletons from Tamil Nadu started taking him seriously as a director and that’s when this fellow realized these fools will lap up anything he throws their way. First he […]
The wise souls at SI have long held that Tamil film director Gautam Menon puts out mostly trashy films. Menon’s Tamil film Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010) was a piece of junk. But trash too finds eager takers in some quarters (hint: it’s a two-word South Indian state starting with T) and was lapped up by a […]
By SI Commenter Mnx542 Watched Dhoni today in Chennai. Sad to see that including me, there were only about 30 people in the theater with a capacity of over 310. I was a bit doubtful about how the movie would turn out to be but all my doubts vanished as the movie started playing. A […]