(by SI blog reader Racer44) Well folks, a spoof movie (that is, a proper one, not a bits-and-pieces-spoof, most-parts-torture movie like Goa) finally makes its way to Tamil cinema. To some, that ought to be reason enough to go watch this film. And I wouldn’t stand in their way. Compared to the unwatchable tripe trotted […]
(For SI blog reader unknownvirus) At last. At last, we watched The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band), a movie we’d been planning on seeing for several weeks but could manage only this past Sunday in Philadelphia. By now, the chattering classes must surely have heard of this German film, which won the prestigious Palme d’Or […]
These days if it’s a Salman Khan movie, it’s got disgrace written all over it at the box office. And so it is with Salman’s latest junk a.k.a. Veer. After a bad opening, Veer is in extremis now. Here, see for yourself why it’s time Salman Khan bids adieu to films: Related Stories Veer Box […]
Ram Gopal Varma’s Friday release Rann has received the middle finger from Bollywood fans at the U.S. box office while Ishqiya, which debuted on far fewer screens here, has fared well. What probably crushed Rann (Amitabh Bachchan, Sudeep, Mohnish Behl, Rajat Kapoor, Ritesh Deshmukh) at the box office was the poor reviews it received at […]
Netflix, a favorite source of Indian, Hollywood and foreign movies in the U.S., is expanding its collection of indie films that can be streamed instantly to TVs or PCs. Netflix said it’d reached agreements with distributors The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Regent Releasing to instantly stream some […]
Hear, hear, that loudmouth Ram Gopal Varma, whom we’d all given up for dead after a bunch of utterly crappy films, has risen from the dead with his new film Rann. Yes, we think Ramu or Gopu or whatever moniker the bozo’s known by these days has managed to put out a watchable film this […]