Angry moviegoers collectively unzipped their fly and roundly peed on Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, a habitual beneficiary of theft, over his latest crap-show Tees Maar Khan. Tees Maar Khan – Rotten at Box Office Folks, Tees Maar Khan has fared miserably over the Christmas weekend at the U.S. box office. Universally scorned by critics, the […]
I suppose no one ever has faith enough. – Philip Carey, in Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage. p.55 Despite bombarding God with prayers, the Almighty fails to fix young Philip’s clubfoot leaving him very disappointed. The sentence is a bitter, sarcastic indictment against God, against the doctrinaire belief that we must keep faith, against believing […]
Rarely ever do we watch a film and at the end tell ourselves, Man, this is so good. I’m gonna see it again. The French film L’Homme du Train (The Man on the Train) is one such delightful exception, a movie so bewitching that we plan to stream it a second time on Netflix Instant […]
(Dedicated to SI blog reader Gora, who first recognized the charlatan. This post is mainly for our North American readers who understand the context better.) Tis’ Christmas eve in America Columbia Mall on Patuxent Rd is full the Starbucks Latte line is long but I have no cause to smile for I ain’t got no […]
From the New York Times to the Times of India and beyond, Akshay Kumar’s latest movie Tees Maar Khan has been brutally torn apart by movie critics. Here’s what a sample of critics had to rant against Tees Maar Khan: * Reuters [O]ne of the year’s most awaited and hyped films has turned out to […]
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. – George Bernard Shaw, in The Philanderer act 2 (1893) cited in Yale Book of Quotations, p.702 George Bernard Shaw wrote/said a lot of cute things in a long life. The above is one of […]