Will Avengers be the biggest movie of 2012, eclipsing even Hunger Games. Very possible. The reviews have been mostly positive and the cast is A-list (Robert Downey Jr, Samuel Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans. Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner et al). Another 15 minutes for the lights to dim and the hall is already about 70% […]
The Ajay Devgn-Anil Kapoor piece of trash Tezz is a disaster at the U.S. box office. As you can see in the below table, the Tezz junk is one of the worst Bollywood performers at the U.S. box office in recent years. For the April 27-29, 2012 opening weekend Tezz grossed a pitifully low $148,133 […]
When Indian filmmakers like Priyadarshan are not pissing out mindless comedies, they’re pimping out nonsensical ‘action’ outrages like Tezz that are loosely based on decades-old foreign films (the 1975 Japanese film Bullet Train, in this instance). Tezz made us want to yelp in agony – Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar. Bet you schmucks […]
Good Lord, is there no getting away from this locust swarm of chutias. This morning we woke up to the unwelcome news from a Gallup Poll that 10 million Indians want to move (as in permanently) to the U.S. Stupid Indians We’ve always considered our Indians as schmucks and the results of the new Gallup […]
Unknown Indian film director Ashim Ahluwalia’s new movie Miss Lovely has won the distinction of being picked to compete in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Un Certain Regard is a less prestigious part of the Cannes Film Festival and films selected in this category are not included in the […]
Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones in its fiscal second quarter ended March 31, 2012 taking cumulative sales of the popular mobile phone since its launch in June 2007 to 218.24 million units. The history of the technology industry has few parallels to the phenomenal success of the iPhone, which is a combination of a cell […]