Arby’s Chocolate Molten Lava Cake – Man, What a Damp Squib

Who doesn’t lust after a Chocolate Molten Lava cake. Yeah, kid, I’m asking ya! Who doesn’t? Stand up and answer or forever hold your tongue! When I heard Arby’s had introduced Chocolate Molten Lava Cake for a limited time, I hotfooted over to the nearest franchise, a 12-mile, 18-minute drive. Arby’s Ordering As I walked […]

Deal of the Day – Free 50GB Online Storage

It’s hard to beat the insatiable Indian lust for freebies or cheap stuff. But I doubt many Indians have clambered on the free online storage accounts. Here’s a short list of some prominent free storage providers in the cloud. They all follow the freemium model (giving some stuff free and charging for upgrades). Some online […]

Mouna Ragam Review – Junk

(For SI Blog Reader Shadowfax_Arbit and possibly many other Karthik Fans ) Since SI is in a Karthik mood lately, we sat down to watch Mouna Ragam (1986). Mouna Ragam is hailed as one of the finest films put out by Mani Ratnam, an highly overrated director in our not-so-humble opinion. Not surprising, given that […]

Open City Review – High Drama on Lowlifes

Continuing our love affair with Korean films, we watched Open City on Netflix Instant the other day. Open City (2008) touches upon an unusual, rarely explored subject inside the criminal underbelly of large cities – the lowly underclass of pickpockets. Pickpockets may not be as glamorous as the Mafia, counterfeiters or thieves carrying out big […]

Nazi Pope Benedict XVI Resigning

Pope Benedict XVI, who was a Nazi in his younger days, is stepping down at the end of February. A Pope has not resigned in about 600-years. The last Pope to voluntarily step down was Pope Gregory XII in 1415. By all sensible accounts, Benedict XVI is a crazy nut with a hard line on […]

Gokulathil Seethai Review – Merely Bad

Most Tamil films skid into one of two categories – Real Bad (usually featuring Surya, Karthi, Vijay, Simbhu, Vombhu, Kombhu et al) and the Disgustingly, Hopelessly, Offensively, Obscenely Bad (buffoons like Ajith, Trisha and Vishal are fixtures in this genre). Since some of my readers have been lately wetting their jetties over a 17-year-old film […]