Dark Shadows – No Highs but Not Bad

Gothic horror comedy Dark Shadows is clearly not a film for the chutiyas aka Indians of any stripes. But blessed with a Catholic disposition yours truly can digest anything you throw on the screen. Comic, tragic, romantic, and even, gothic. Anything but the pathetic, bring it on baby. Finding myself at a loose end today […]

Avengers Review – Incredible Gimmickry, Less Credible Artistry

The young Black guy sitting to my right was so ripe with emotion that at the end of the super-heroes film Avengers he couldn’t resist turning to a complete stranger (me, me, me) and asking rhetorically, “Nice movie, eh? They did a good job on that.” Yeah, I responded because it’s the politically correct (and […]

Full House for Avengers

Will Avengers be the biggest movie of 2012, eclipsing even Hunger Games. Very possible. The reviews have been mostly positive and the cast is A-list (Robert Downey Jr, Samuel Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans. Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner et al). Another 15 minutes for the lights to dim and the hall is already about 70% […]

Tezz Trash is Disaster at Box Office

The Ajay Devgn-Anil Kapoor piece of trash Tezz is a disaster at the U.S. box office. As you can see in the below table, the Tezz junk is one of the worst Bollywood performers at the U.S. box office in recent years. For the April 27-29, 2012 opening weekend Tezz grossed a pitifully low $148,133 […]

Tezz Review – Usual Boring Indian Garbage

When Indian filmmakers like Priyadarshan are not pissing out mindless comedies, they’re pimping out nonsensical ‘action’ outrages like Tezz that are loosely based on decades-old foreign films (the 1975 Japanese film Bullet Train, in this instance). Tezz made us want to yelp in agony – Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar. Bet you schmucks […]

1 Crore Chutias Want to Move to Amreeka

Good Lord, is there no getting away from this locust swarm of chutias. This morning we woke up to the unwelcome news from a Gallup Poll that 10 million Indians want to move (as in permanently) to the U.S. Stupid Indians We’ve always considered our Indians as schmucks and the results of the new Gallup […]

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