Apple today launched iBooks Author, an easy to use application for writers looking to publish their e-books for the iPad tablet. Hell, even you schmucks can use the app to write an e-book on any topic and publish them to Apple’s iBookstore. iBooks Author is available on the Mac App Store for free. Ah, but […]
Sometimes even “a tale as old as time” can be (re)told with great panache and charm the audience. And that’s exactly what Disney has done with Beauty & the Beast 3D. God knows how many times Beauty & Beast has been made on celluloid and in how many languages. Yet the latest version did not […]
The Apple iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and the Mac are truly God’s finest creations. Of course, SI readers know how we love all things Apple. But for all the schmucks who have resisted our insistent scribblings that the only smartphone, tablet or computer worth buying is an iPhone, iPad and Mac respectively, here’s one more […]
The other day we watched the Spanish movie Recien Cazado (2009) on Netflix Instant Play. No, Recien Cazado (Jaime Camil, Gabriela Vergara) is by no stretch of imagination a must-watch film. It’s one of those movies you watch when you’re too drunk too drive to the Red Box or Blockbuster kiosk and pick up a […]
With Vettai, Kollywood director N.Linguswamy has turned the Pongal celebrations into a huge funeral ceremony for 60 million Tamils Across Tamil Nadu today, the depressing sounds of a dirge fill the air and wailing Tamil movie fans everywhere beat their chests in agony. Folks, one pallbearer and one pallbearer alone is responsible for ruining the […]
Thank God for Netflix. We can have our fill of Korean, Argentine, French and so many other fine films. Here’s a bunch of decent foreign (non-English) films we watched recently, some on DVD and others via Netflix Instant Play: * Carancho (Spanish) – A lovely, dark Argentine film that shows a side of humanity few […]