Appaloosa – Nice Western

You can bet your last dime that even as the world is ending, someone somewhere will be making a Western movie. Such is the hold of this genre that 105 years after the first Western movie debuted, Hollywood still continues to churn out Westerns to feed the insatiable appetite of movie-goers nostalgic for an era […]

Sapthagiri – Mona Lisa of Masala Dosas in New Jersey

Finding a good Dosa in the U.S. is becoming almost as hard as seeing the Halley’s Comet. And for unabashed gourmands like us, who’d kill for a good Dosa, that’s so frustrating. In our odyssean quest for good Dosas, we have traveled far and wide, often driving across state borders in the U.S. Alas, nemesis […]

Drona Bomb Explodes in Eros’ Face

Wonder how much Eros International, the Bollywood film producer and distributor (including of plagiarized Hollywood films), stands to lose from the Drona disaster? Boy, as co-producer of Drona and the movie’s global distributor, those Eros folks really pinned their hopes high on this big-budget movie. As the Eros PR machine exclaimed a few weeks back: Drona sets a new […]

Bill Maher Takes on the God Nonsense in Religulous

One of the greatest fictions of all time is the existence of God. In our view, this God phenomenon, whether Ram, Jesus, Allah or any of the other lesser known mutants, is an enduring nonsense the likes of which has never been seen on Planet Earth. Despite the lack of any compelling evidence to prove […]

Drona – Box Office Disaster; Abhishek’s Waterloo?

Abhishek Bachchan Sets New Pathetic Record Bollywood flop king Abhishek Bachchan’s latest trashy movie Drona is a total disaster at the U.S. box office and may turn out to be the biggest flop of 2008. Bollywood fans have shown Drona’s hero Abhishek Bachchan the middle finger and basically told this bozo to take his garbage act elsewhere. […]

Om Malik’s GigaOm Blog Network Raises $4.5m

Om Malik’s GigaOm blog network has raised $4.5 million in a new round of financing. GigaOm is a decent source of information on digital media and a blog that we read fairly often. Early-stage VC firm Alloy Ventures was the lead investor in the latest round, which included participation from existing primary investor True Ventures […]