Tech News Has Lost All Sense of Proportion

News loses all meaning when journalists consider everything related to Apple as earth-shattering developments. Over the last 48-hours, bloggers and journalist from across the world, but mostly here in the U.S.,  have focused on the “revelation” that September 10 is the launch date for Apple’s next iPhone. Some five dozen publications piggybacked on All ThingsD’s […]

Chennai Express BO – Trash Loves Trash

As the wise SI has said on countless occasions, you can take the Indian out of India but not the trash out of the Indian. In another demonstration of the unbounded Indian love for trash, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s sub-mental garbage Chennai Express got a decent opening at the U.S. box office. Classless Indian […]

Chennai Express – Sub-Mental Garbage

To hail Chennai Express as a movie would be an egregious insult to the entertainment form that daily gives joy to millions around the world. Folks, Chennai Express is a tawdry spectacle that only a crass Indian filmmaker would put out, only an aging Pakistan-loving Indian superstar would feature in and only a classless Indian […]

Elysium Review – Splendid Reboot

Sometimes in life, we can’t understand why things are the way they are. – Elderly nun trying to explain the unjust circumstances of life to young Max in Neill Blomkamp’s new movie Elysium Tis’ one of the disappointments of movies that life seldom imitates art. Otherwise we could have eagerly looked forward to a reboot […]

Mud Review – Remarkable

Soon as Mud came out on DVD yesterday, I reserved the disc online at RedBox and rushed to the kiosk to pick it up. Since I missed it at the theaters (reason: Mud did not have a wide-enough release), I was eagerly waiting for the film to land on DVD. After watching Mud, I can […]

Microsoft Tries Silly Tactic to Boost Apps

It’s no secret that the Windows Phone has met with an underwhelming response from consumers. According to numbers put out by market researcher IDC today, shipments of Windows phones in the second quarter of 2013 was 8.7 million units compared to 187.4 million units for Android phones and 31.2 million for iPhones. (Actual sales of […]