Agent Vinod, which had a fairly wide release in the U.S. (for a Bollywood film), hasn’t done well at the box office. And that’s a shame because the movie is a decent Hindi action, spy thriller. Here’s how Agent Vinod fared at the U.S. box office compared to a few prominent Bollywood films: Related […]
Like the warning found on all cigarette packets, it’s time to insert a statutory declaration at the beginning of all Bollywood movies: This Indian movie may have been stolen in full or part from Hollywood and/or other foreign sources with impunity and reckless disregard for the intellectual property of others. Indian media reports suggest that […]
It took the bozos over four decades but with Agent Vinod Bollywood has finally turned in the first Indian action thriller that desi Bond and Bourne aficionados can watch without cringing. Written and directed by Sriram Raghavan, Agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Prem Chopra) is a well crafted Hindi action film that has […]
Jennifer Lawrence is a fine actress, and mark our words carefully now, one about whom y’all will be hearing and talking a lot in the coming years and decades. – The Wise SI in the review of Winter’s Bone, June 2010 As we were driving home through the dense mid-Atlantic fog, we couldn’t help thinking […]
We’ve never seen anything like this. Not even for the Twilight nonsense. The midnight show of Hunger Games (Jennifer Lawrence) is being screened in at least seven halls at a theatre on the East Coast. And it’s the same story across the U.S. Multiple midnight shows. And we expect every hall to be full. The […]
Unless you’re wearing blinkers all the time, you’ve heard of the open source operating system Linux. Some of the best known sites in the world like Google SI run on Linux. 😉 If you’re familiar with Linux, chances are high that you might have heard of Linus Torvalds too. Linus is the original creator of […]