We’ve never understood the Oprah phenomenon (for all ye schmucks in boondocksville, the fat cow is the QUEEN of American talk show). But then we’ve never understood a lot of stupid things that the hoi polloi go gushing ooh and aah about. Sorry, understanding stupidity is just not our forte. The sight of Tom Cruise […]
This Karthi fella, sibling of sori padam Surya and son of Monkey dancer Sivakumar, is going the way of his peers – that is taking the trash road to infamy. No surprise then that the box office numbers of Karthi’s movies reflect that. Here’s how Karthi’s new film Siruthai fared at the UK box office […]
Just in time for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, Ford Foundation has rolled out a $50 million global initiative called JustFilms to support documentary filmmakers focusing on social issues. JustFilms intends to invest $10 million a year over the next five years to support documentary filmmakers who lack funding to realize their visions or reach […]
Oh, No. It’s not any of our Bollywood, Kollywood et al movies. Au contraire, it’s a feature documentary called the Bengali Detective. Directed by Philip Cox, this Hindi/English/Bengali film with English subtitles is set in Kolkata. We stumbled on Bengali Detective this morning while glancing at the Sundance listings for this year. By the way, […]
Who’d have thought a film featuring the talentless Deol kids Sunny and Bobby and their septuagenarian father Dharmendra (sole talent in the family) would manage to gross over half-million dollars at the U.S. box office. Here’s how their Yamla Pagla Deewana fared at the U.S. box office compared to some recent Bollywood films:
Last night, as we were lying in bed waging a losing battle against insomnia we read an AP news story on our iPhone about the former Pope John Paul II being on the fast track to sainthood. As all but the schmucks know, Pope John Paul II, the former head of the Catholic Child-Molesters Church […]