Mongol Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun Director: Sergei Bodrov Now Playing at: Ritz Five Philadelphia (as of July 20, 2008) Language: Mongolian (with English sub-titles) One of history’s colorful characters, Genghis Khan a.k.a. Temudgin was the great Mongol leader who lived from 1162-1227. Released in June in the U.S. to mostly favorable reviews, […]
Kismat Konnection – Dud at Box Office Making crappy movies like Kismat Konnection is a sin. Reviewing such crappy movies – and giving them undeserved publicity – is a greater sin. Watching Kismat Konnection less than 24 hours after watching The Dark Knight featuring the peerless Heath Ledger as the Joker is nothing but Karmic […]
If a $2.5 billion loss is progress (even if it’s half the $5.1b loss of Q1), then our greedy desi butcher and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit uses a different dictionary from the rest of us. This morning struggling financial services giant Citigroup announced a loss of $2.5 billion for its second quarter ended June 30, […]
If Heath Ledger were not already dead, we’d have surely killed him with our bare hands for being careless with the prescription drugs that took the life of this amazing actor prematurely in January. To watch Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight is to rejoice in a performer who had reached the ne plu ultra, […]
As if their torturous ripoff act on the big screen in a string of pathetic movies like Sarkar Raj, Bhoothnath, Umrao Jaan, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom were not bad enough, the Bachchans (Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya) are taking their ripoff act to a new arena. Yes, the Bachchan flop triplets […]
Former HP executive Atul Malhotra has pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Malhotra, a former VP of imaging and printing services at HP, is said to have shared IBM trade secrets after joining HP from IBM in May 2006. Malhotra faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, a […]