Each time I watch a Bollywood movie, an urgent need to rinse my mouth with two good foreign films overwhelms me. Having recently inflicted upon myself the masochistic trauma of sitting through Ajay Devgan’s latest emetic Singham Returns, I was besides myself in agony. How in Heaven’s name can this Rohit Shetty mis-directed turdpile Singham […]
After reading with great anguish those endless reports of how [the pathetic piece of shit] Singham Returns has set the Indian box office on fire, I was quite relieved that the junk has not done all that well in the U.S. Some consolation, sweetie! It’d be a travesty of art if garbage like Singham Returns were […]
Garbage Returns! Now, that would be the most apt title for this latest Bollywood atrocity to hit U.S. screens. Singham Returns is the second film in the Singham franchise. And if you ask me, the new one is as loathsome as its predecessor. Garbage Returns No amount of opprobrium can be too much for a […]
By Naveen Günther: “Why do we do what we do? Martha: “To keep the world safe. Isn’t that a good enough reason?” This Philip Seymour Hoffman (Günther Bachmann), Rachel McAdams (Annabel Richter), Willem Dafoe (Tommy), Robin Wright (Martha) and Grigoriy Dobrygin (Isa Karpov) starrer is directed by Anton Corbijn and based on John le Carré […]
This insufferable Bollywood movie featuring dogs, Akshay Kumar, bitches and Tammanah Bhatia plumbs the depths of the depravity business. A bizarre species named Sajid-Farhad held the dog-leash of this exercise in cruelty, pretending to direct the canine-pack of bipeds and quadrupeds. Apparently, the duo also ‘wrote’ the screenplay and dialogs. Who’s the Dog? Who’s the […]
Asking for a discount doesn’t mean I’m poor. It means I’m thrifty. – Om Puri’s character Papa in The Hundred Foot Journey Filmed in Mumbai (a short-bit) and France, The Hundred Foot Journey is visual splendor. Linus Sandgren’s photography – of rural France, Indian and French food, the markets, the cast etc – is like […]