(For SI Blog readers kd36939, Gandhiji et al) Farewell a.k.a. L’affaire Farewell (French) is simply the best spy film we’ve seen in our life. And also the most sui generis spy film – we heard gun-shots only twice in the entire movie. Eschewing Indian films like Khatta Meetha and Pudangadi oops Thillalangadi that have earned […]
I’m not a spy. I’m a businesswoman….Please let me go home. (Brutal torture by North Korean agents follows.) I’m not a spy. I’m not a spy. – Evelyn Salt inside a North Korean prison Folks, we’ve just returned from the midnight show of the new Angelina Jolie film Salt. Of course, like all most action […]
The emperor marched in the procession under the beautiful canopy, and all who saw him in the street and out of the windows exclaimed: “Indeed, the emperor’s new suit is incomparable! What a long train he has! How well it fits him!” Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would […]
The sole solace of Raavanan (Tamil) is that it’s a shade better than the Hindi version starring that Bollywood shaitan Abhishek Bachchan. Sure, it’s the same stupid, boring, unappealing, shallow story that you see in the Hindi version with nary a difference. It’s filmed in the same lush jungles too. Hey, that’s no surprise since […]
Raavan Box Office: Disaster, Act of God, Pathetic The Bollywood monkeys are out of the cage, again. And their antics in the new Hindi film Raavan are evoking nothing but scorn, withering scorn, from some critics. King-sized disappointment, waste, uninspiring, mediocre and silly are only some of the epithets Indian movie critics are hurling at […]
(Bollywood film Singham is a remake of the Tamil Singam) Oh, no. Singam is not a bad movie. Most definitely not. Au contraire, it’s a hideously awful movie. Asingam (trashy), to use an apposite Tamil term. Sick. Crude. Trashy. Ugly. All of the above appellations fit this depressingly disgusting film to a T. If Singam […]