By Naveen English Vinglish (2012) Story, Screenplay, Direction: Gauri Shinde Cast: Sridevi, Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand, Adil Hussain From the Bollywood cesspool emerges another hideous junk called English Ving… What?? Oh No! Wait a second. That is how I habitually start the reviews of Indian films. But every once in a while there comes a […]
1. Alcohol Enemas – The rest of the world has to be content with just water-enemas. But here in American hardly-working students ever on the search for a new high are resorting to Alcohol Enemas. If you want to know what an Alcohol Enema is, it means shoving a tube in your asshole and pumping […]
Thandavam BO – Vikram gets Middle Finger Vikram Kennedy’s new film Thandavam has evoked a ho-hum response. For the opening show of Thandavam at a theatre on the U.S. east coast, there were just 40 odd people. Previously, Vikram’s films used to be screened in the bigger hall at the theatre. Correctly judging the waning […]
Le hérisson a.k.a. The Hedgehog (2009) Director: Mona Achache Cast: Garance Le Guillermic, Josiane Balasko, Togo Igawa Writers: Mona Achache and Muriel Barbery Language: French The Hedgehog is not a movie as much as a beautiful painting that you can gaze at endlessly. Tired of waiting for the Hedgehog DVD on Netflix (‘very long wait’), […]
By SI Blog Reader AC One of the pleasures of living in Toronto is attending the aam aadmi -friendly Toronto International Film Festival – or TIFF in short – at the fag end of summer. September brings a mouth watering treat to the movie buffs of this city in the form of a virtual cornucopia […]
If Marx and Engels were to rewrite The Communist Manifesto, they’d probably pen it this way: A spectre is haunting Edison – the spectre of Biryani. All the powers of Edison have entered into a holy alliance to expropriate this spectre: Punjabis and Telugus, Pakistanis and Delhites, Afghanis, Tamils and Gujaratis. Never in the history […]