You either fuck somebody up or you get fucked up. Get it? – One inmate (Mason) to another (Rune) in the superb Danish prison film R Over the last few days, we’ve watched a bunch of foreign language films (i.e. non-English, non-Indian). Some we’ve reviewed on these pages, others we’ve kept to ourselves. On Saturday, […]
Mounted NYC Policemen on Wall Street Warily Eying the Crowd. Who can Blame them. After all, Wall Street is just a few blocks from Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest. (October 21, 2011)
Sometimes a picture video is worth a million trillion words:
We believe that the Taliban to a very, very great extent — to a very, very great extent — are controlled by establishments in Pakistan, stay in Pakistan, have their headquarters in Pakistan, launch attacks from Pakistan. – Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday, October 20, 2011 Source: New York Times It’s a shame that […]
Netbooks (small form-factor, lower-priced, less powerful laptops) took a beating in the second quarter. When the folks at market researcher ABI Research tallied the numbers, they found media tablet shipments in the second quarter reached 13.6 million units, compared to just 7.3 million for netbooks. In Q1, netbooks were ahead with 8.4 million units compared […]
Hey, we’re no strangers to weird movies. After all, 99% of Indian movies, past and present, occupy pride of place in the pantheon of weird shit. But the Mexican production Año Bisiesto (Leap Year), a 2010 award-winning Spanish language film, is a different kind of weird film. Very bleak. Very sexually explicit (now, this should […]