What a shame that all ye half-wit natives read little besides the gin-soaked ramblings on these pages. If you did, you’d realize what an exhilarating Yaa Baa ride John Burdett’s Bangkok 8 turns out to be. (Yaa Baa, or Bhul Bhuliya for the uninformed desi dummkopfs, is the ‘mad drug,’ the potent methamphetamine favored by the […]
(by SI blog reader Asha Tampa) It is amazing how, after a period of more than 50 years a movie can continue to enthrall audiences of all ages – perhaps now more so than ever, considering it’s just been released in color. Having seen Mayabazar umpteen times since my childhood, it was pure pleasure to […]
(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 […]
Goa received a pathetic response from Tamil movie fans for the opening show of the movie on the East Coast. For the 4:00PM show at MovieShitty on Oak Tree Road in Edison, NJ there were just five people. An embarrassing debacle, folks. Of the five, one person was seen frequently getting out of the hall. […]
Finally, folks. Finally. Our modern day digital media Moses has launched the most awaited product of the last 12 months – Apple’s digital tablet, the iPad. Not since Moses’ tablet containing the Ten Commandments has any other tablet commanded so much attention of the chattering classes. iPad Unveiled Apple’s ailing head honcho Steve Jobs today […]