Aithe Review – Not Bad for a Telugu Film

(For SI blog readers Twig, Supergirl and GaneshKumar) By the abysmal or non-existent standards of Telugu films, Aithe (2003) is a decent movie. Truth be said, it’s hard to believe those unschooled Tollywood louts made this film. Whether this movie is just an aberration, the side-effect of a solar eclipse or a radiation leak, we’d […]

SI Reads the Quran – 1; Fasten Your Seat-belts

Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid Ever since Osama bin Laden’s henchmen rammed planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center at 9:00 AM on a September 11 there has been enormous interest in Islam and its holy book, the Quran (a.k.a. Koran). Both Islam’s staunch defenders and its bitter detractors invariably […]

The White Ribbon Review – A Dark Spell

(For SI blog reader unknownvirus) At last. At last, we watched The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band), a movie we’d been planning on seeing for several weeks but could manage only this past Sunday in Philadelphia. By now, the chattering classes must surely have heard of this German film, which won the prestigious Palme d’Or […]

Goa Review – Insufferable Garbage

Sick shit. That humans in this day and age can put forth garbage like Goa and dare call it a movie boggles the mind. Folks, of all the Tamil movies we’ve seen in the last five years Goa is the vilest trash of ’em all. Before the might of this Goa sewage tsunami, Kuruvi, Villu, […]

Quote of the Day – Schindler’s List

We give you a Jewish girl at five marks a day, Oskar. You should kiss us, not them. God forbid you ever get a real taste for Jewish skirt, there’s no future in it. They don’t have a future. That’s not just good old fashioned Jew hating talk. It’s policy now. – SS officer Julian […]

Incredible India 32 – YSR Grants Moksha to 30 Followers

This is beyond nonsense, a calamitous event that can happen only in Incredible India. When Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy (Chief Minister of the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh) died in a helicopter crash the other day, the 60-year-old politician, may his soul rest in peace, took with him not merely his four co-passengers. Alas, Reddy took […]

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