In a nation reputed for churning out one crappy movie after another ad infinitum, the mere mention of the late Bengali auteur Satyajit Ray’s name evokes aahs and oohs in India. No matter that few Indians have watched Ray’s movies and fewer still see them these days. A couple of years back, we watched one […]
By Naveen The movie print has not arrived at Anil Ambani’s Big Cinemas theater in Chicago. We went to Big Cinemas for the 7:30 pm show and the girl at the snacks counter (where they also sell the tickets) lied to us that only the 1:20 pm show was on today. After we yelled at them, […]
Super 8 is one of those movies where the exciting promise of the trailer is belied by the prosaic reality of the film. We had seen the intriguing trailer a bunch of times and so went over today to the mall brimming with high hopes. As the old saying goes, there’s many a slip betwixt […]
Quiz: How many bad guys can Badri (Allu Arjun) single-handedly kill or maim at the Bellary Railway Station with just a sword and without suffering so much as a scratch in the new Telugu film Badrinath? a) 0 b) 2 c) 4 d) Several Dozen If you answered from a-c, you’d be grossly wrong but […]
Sadly, some movies get far more credit than they deserve. And we’re not talking only Bollywood trash, most of which should not even be released in theaters. Take for instance, the Italian film La doppia ora (The Double Hour) that marked the directorial debut of Giuseppe Capotondi. We watched the film in the theater yesterday […]