Don 2 Box Office – Less than MNIK By Naveen Anyone who followed Indian movies in the late 70’s could not have escaped the “Don”. Amitabh Bachchan played Don in the original that was promptly copied as Billa starring Rajinikanth in the Tamil version. Such was the impact of Amitabh’s Don that it was re-made […]
Rajapattai BO – How Will Vikram End it All? Tamil film star Vikram’s new movie Rajapattai is the latest infantile nonsense to emerge out of Kollywood. Rajapattai has nothing going for it. Zip. Zilch. Zero. Bizarre Story Sickles fly every three minutes, an old man in his 80s eagerly gives lessons to young men in […]
For fans of Tintin comics like yours truly, watching ace director Steven Spielberg’s animation debut The Adventures of Tintin turned out to be a rewarding experience. There was a time in a distant era and a far off continent when we devoured Tintin comics like there was no tomorrow. Blistering barnacles, we probably read the […]
Amid the endless sewage stream of trashy movies (both Indian and Ingleesh), it’s sometimes easy to miss the few good ones. Recently, we had the good sense, and the blessed good fortune, to watch two nice English movies – Main Street and Page Eight on DVD (both via Netflix). * Main Street – This well […]
For all you schmucks who think America is passing through a grueling recession, we have some news for ya. The supposedly down on their luck Americans have already spent $31 billion online in the first 46 days of the holiday season, a 15% increase over the same period last year, according to comScore. And mind […]
By Naveen Anil Kapoor’s eagerly anticipated Hollywood offering Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol released Thursday night in the U.S. exclusively at IMAX theaters. Anil’s Hollywood fans could hardly contain their excitement and paraded to the nearest theaters in numbers that make the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd seem like Monday morning gathering at the local Hindu temple. […]