(For Dr.Logu) Tamil cinema’s ace thief Vikram Kennedy is a desperate man. The schlockmeister of Kollywood has not had a decent hit in a million years. His recent movies like Bheema, Rajapattai and Deiva Thirumagal were either plain awful or outright theft. The audience is giving him the cold shoulder. He’s seething with rage seeing […]
Screw Blockbuster! Screw Netflix Instant! Screw RedBox! I’m back on the Netflix DVD train, the only place where you can reliably depend on an eclectic collection of movies in the U.S. This afternoon with a glass of Chocolate Gin cocktail in my hand and fried peanuts seasoned with curry leaves, grated ginger and coriander perched […]
Snigdha Nandipati won the 2012 Spelling Bee Championship at the Gaylord Hotel in Washington DC this evening. The winning word was GUETAPENS. Snigdha Nandipati Age 14, 8th grade School: Francis Parker School Hometown: San Diego, California At the end, the battle was between the three Indian kids Snigdha Nandipati, Arvind Mahankali and Stuti Mishra. Then […]
I have no regrets that my birth happened three centuries after the curtain came down on the European Renaissance. After all, it’s been my blessed fortune to have lived through the glorious age of Tamil cinema, from the early 1960s through 2012. Tamil cinema has been unjustly vilified and much calumny heaped on it in […]
Dharun Ravi’s parents Ravi Pazhani and Sabitha Pazhani lashed out at the media in the Middlesex County courthouse today during the sentencing hearing of their son in the Tyler Clementi webcam spying case. Addressing Judge Glenn Berman in the New Jersey court, Dharun’s father Ravi Pazhani said: Prosecutors are saying this trial is not about […]
After vexedly enduring our Bollywood and Kollywood jackasses acting like chimps in movie after movie for decade after decade, we decided to hit the theater today and see the real deal – the new Disney movie Chimpanzee. A DocuDrama Chimpanzee is one of those movies that’s hard to peg into a category. It’s not a […]