For U.S. Readers Only Blockbuster is offering a great deal – FREE six-months one-DVD rental. Being a cheapo desi, I signed up and ordered The Dark Knight. Like most desis here, I do have Netflix Instant but canceled the DVD option since I was not renting many films. It’s nice to have the DVD option […]
I know not the eating habits of savages. But this I know – All Civilized Beings love Okra. When I was growing up in Mera Bharat Mahaan a million years back, my grandmother used to force Okra dishes down my throat on the ground that it’d sharpen my math skills. But the crone had not […]
Dark Knight Rises Review – Disappointing It’s not every day that a movie earns a 97%* rating (* keeps fluctuating) on the world’s most second most popular movie review site. Yes, the early reviews for The Dark Knight Rises are out on Rotten Tomatoes. And they’re mostly gushing, overflowing with praise. Unless a meteor strikes […]
It’s true that SI is Brahma, the All-Knowing, Wise One. But occasionally even Brahma nods off, lost in the fantasy land of Samantha Jennifer Lawrence, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Lakshmi Rai etc. It’s in those lost moments when I’m exploring some nooks and crevices in the dark recesses of my unfathomable mind that my dear […]
(For SI Blog reader Araj) By the criminally low standards of the steaming pile of Telugu dung like Nuvve Na Rakshasi, Nenae Nee Pisachi, Pitchee Donga, Dongana Koduka etc, Eega is a watchable film but certainly not a great one. Unless you’re hiding under a rock in Timbuktu, you know that Eega has been a […]
Billa 2 UK BO Report – Disaster, Worse than Kuruvi, Mankatha etc Ajith Kumar’s Billa II has opened to bad reviews. Besides the poor reviews, the movie’s producers also have to reckon with a dull box office response at some theaters in the U.S. The opening show of Billa II at a theater in Chicago […]