By Naveen After tackling a surprisingly easy Friday evening Chicago traffic, we settled down into the comfortable seats of Big Cinemas (Niles, IL) with the hope of watching at least a mildly entertaining Tamil movie in the rather oddly named “180” – No Rules. When the show began, the censor board certificate revealed the official […]
Super 8 is one of those movies where the exciting promise of the trailer is belied by the prosaic reality of the film. We had seen the intriguing trailer a bunch of times and so went over today to the mall brimming with high hopes. As the old saying goes, there’s many a slip betwixt […]
(For SI Blog Reader Gandhiji) Yawn, Yawn! Hey, it’s really getting tiresome. One more Spelling Bee championship and one more Indian American winner. Yes, an Indian is the winner of the 84th Spelling Bee. 🙂 This time the top honors went to 14-year-old Sukanya Roy, an eighth grade student of the Abington Heights Middle School […]
They’re getting younger and younger. Oh, we mean the age of users on the Facebook social network. A new Consumer Reports survey found that 20 million minors had actively used Facebook in the last 12 months. As if that number were not worrisome enough, 7.5 million were younger than 13 (a violation of Facebook terms […]
To describe the new Telugu movie 100% Love (Naga Chaitanya, Tamannaah Bhatia) as a hopelessly silly piece of trash would be to bestow an extravagant compliment on the clumsy grotesquerie. That in this day and age, 100 plus years into the motion picture business, some Telugu people put out such rank amateur stuff and then […]
Tis’ true that God hates all Indians. But God has reserved his most potent fury and venom for the Telugu peoples by depriving them of the gene that appreciates or discerns those beautiful things known as art, class and culture. If class came and slapped Telugus hard on the face, those crass jackasses wouldn’t recognize […]