Departures Review – A Work of Art

Most films I watch these days leave me deeply dissatisfied and often angry because there is little new to titillate hardened, cynical viewers like yours truly who think, rightly or wrongly, they’ve seen it all. But the 2008 Japanese film Departures provided a pleasant jolt to my jaded senses and amply made up for the […]

Telugu Groper Erramilli Gets a Reprieve

Telugu Bidda Srinivasa Erramilli, a serial groper on commercial flights in the U.S., will remain a free man for some more time. Erramilli was supposed to be sentenced on June 12, 2013 but the much anticipated event got postponed The latest postponement is attributed to Erramilli’s lawyer Edward Marvin Genson’s wife suffering “a serious, debilitating, […]

This Is the End Review – Absolute Garbage

If you’re the average Indian with an yen for playing soccer with a newly dead-man’s head, drinking your piss with heady delight, vomiting in a torrent on your buddies, boasting about masturbating and ejaculating all over your friend’s house, cannibalizing your friends, fantasizing about buggering ‘man slave bitches on a leash’ and other assorted garbage, […]

YPD 2 – Dharmendra & Sons Buggered

Bad as the Indian audience is in their routine patronage of crappy movies, once in a rare while they do behave sensibly. Indian-Americans have shown the middle finger to Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol), which has been pilloried by critics. In its opening weekend at the U.S. box office, Yamla Pagla […]

Apple Snapshot Shows Strong Position

At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple today provided some numbers to assure everyone that the company was still riding high with consumers and developers. Strong Momentum There has been so much noise in the media that Android is crushing Apple, the iPhone and iPad market share is falling and other such alarmist prognostications that […]