Sura Review – Colossus of Nonsense

Trust Tamil movie star Joseph Vijay to conjure up a sui generis way of thanking legions of fans for standing by him for 49 films over nearly two decades. For his 50th film Sura, Vijay gathered all the saliva in his mouth and in one merciless, swift swoop spat square on the face of millions […]

Sura First Half – Total Nonsense

(via iPhone) Thank God for the intermission. Sick, boring shit after 1-hour 3-minutes. It’s 9.25PM, here on the East Coast. Folks, the first half of Sura is total garbage. Our eponymous hero Sura is a fisherman. There’s a minister, who is also a nasty character. The paths of Sura and the minister have yet to […]

Watching Sura

(via iPhone) After a 20-minute Hamletian dithering of ‘To go or not to go,’ we finally took the Sura plunge. And so here we’re at a crappy theater on the East Coast waiting for Tamil film to start. The print just arrived in a van. So it should take another 30-45 minutes for the movie […]

Madurey Review – Punnaku Pandi and the ‘Negro Problem’

There cannot be a pinch in death More sharp than this is. – Imogen in Cymbeline (Act 1, Scene 1) Who would have thought Vijay’s character in Madurey would succeed so grandly, so effortlessly and, Holy Christ, so quickly, where Martin Luther King, Lyndon Johnson, the marchers at Selma and countless other civil rights activists […]

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