Run, Govinda. Run. Find a big rat-hole to fit your big, fat torso. Hide your big, fat shame. In what can only be described as a monumental disaster, Do Knot Disturb turned in one of the worst performances for a Bollywood movie at the U.S. box office. For the October 2-4, 2009 weekend, Do Knot […]
Yeah, yeah, we know talking any sense into you schmucks is not a task for the faint hearted. After all, y’all are the dolts that get their highs and kicks from watching sick movies. You know, the kind where a wrist-watch chants Om Mangalam from inside a stunt fighter’s stomach, a so-called ‘world hero’ performing […]
Must be our bad Karma. The first Telugu movie (that too in the evening of our life) and what a ghastly nightmare it turned out to be! Just imagine how much more damage Ganesh would have inflicted on our senses if we’d understood the language. There must be a God somewhere smiling upon us. Kid […]
Enna Avamanam (what a disgrace). There were just seven people (eight initially, but one guy vanished) for the opening 8:30PM ET show of Unnaipol Oruvan in the U.S. on Thursday at Anil Ambani’s crappy theatre Movie City, Edison. Of the seven, three didn’t think much of this movie. Yes, all three had seen A Wednesday, […]
Time hangs heavily on our hands today. So we told ourselves, sweetie, tis’ time for a nice flick. As we were trolling through Netflix‘ Instant Play collection, we stumbled upon the Swedish film Let the Right One In. Looks interesting. Definitely. A quick glance at the reviews suggests that the movie has found considerable favor […]
(Recommended by SI reader Boopalanj) Preoccupied as Indian film-makers are with regurgitating trash, the documentary as an art form is virtually absent in Bollywood or any of its smaller regional siblings. That’s odd when you know the cornucopia of material available to Indian film-makers. Given that the blighted land is rife with corruption, rampant cruelty, […]