Indian movie critics have savaged the new Bollywood movie Paathshala (Shahid Kapoor, Nana Patekar). Here’s what a sample of Bollywood critics had to say on Paathshaala: Reuters: “Paathshaala” is an incoherent mess of a film which takes a serious issue and manages to run it to the ground. Why someone like Shahid Kapur would want […]
In one what must count as one of the great tragedies of the 21st century literary fiction world, Swedish writer Stieg Larsson never lived to enjoy the fruits of success from his wildly popular crime novels. Since most of ye schmucks read so little, some education is in order before we proceed to the movie […]
If you let a bunch of sloshed monkeys run amok inside the kitchen and dining room of Palace of Asia Wilmington (DE), you’re likely to end up with better curry and superior service than what woebegone us experienced during our horrid meal at this restaurant. Folks, to describe Palace of Asia Wilmington as an authentic […]
Un’f*cking’Believable. Hurt Locker has won the Best Picture at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards tonight. What the f*ck are the morons at the Motion Picture Academy smoking that better films like Avatar, District 9, Up in the Air or Inglourious Basterds should get the middle finger! Here are the other movies that were also in […]
Sandra Bullock has won the Best Actress prize at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards for her performance in The Blind Side. Here are the rivals Sandra pipped at the post for the Best Actress Award: Helen Mirren for The Last Station Carey Mulligan for An Education Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push […]
It’s been a long time since we read a book as seductively beguiling as Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Set amid the ferment of the ‘Cultural Revolution’ in China during the early 1970s, the book is a bewitching story of the power of books and of life in the countryside for two teenage boys […]