After watching the French prison drama A Prophet (directed by Jacques Audiard) recently, we were tempted to see more of this genre. And as we were desultorily scrolling through the Netflix Instant Play movie list this evening we stumbled upon Felon, based on a prison story. The 2008 film features Val Kilmer, Stephen Dorff and […]
Paiyaa UK Box Office – Bad, Really Bad The distraught girl is chased by a bunch of Andhra thugs and must reach Bombay. Oh, no. Oh, no. You see, the smitten, besotted, desperately in love guy who is driving the girl to her grandma’s home is chased by a gang of Bombay goons and must […]
(Via iPhone) It’s 9.28PM ET and the intermission. Folks, Paiya is disappointing. Same ol’ boring shit. Nothing different from what we’ve seen in a 1,000 different movies. Karthi is pleasing, of course. Tamannah is alright. The third song on the screen now. Adada Mazhada. Karthi can’t dance. Update: Back home now. Working on the full […]
Paiya Review – Storyless, Pathetic Piece of Shit We were delighted thrilled to see Karthi in Selvaraghavan’s charmer Aayirathil Oruvan. At last, a fella in Kollywood who can spell the word acting. The fella can teach a thing or two about acting to his older brother Surya, sister-in-law Jyothika and even to his old man […]
Since we’ve been in a French mood for the last couple of weeks, we followed up A Prophet with Battle of Algiers and two more Frenchies – Read My Lips and The Crimson Rivers. Both Read My Lips and Crimson Rivers are nice movies but Read My Lips is without doubt the superior movie. * […]
Telugu film actor star Allu Arjun woke up this morning to find pee flowing all over his face. No comprende? You see, Allu Arjun’s latest crap-show Varudu is at the receiving end of critics’ ire. Here’s what a sample of Indian movie critics had to say on Varudu (sure, some of them do note some […]