Adding to its long list of failed Internet ventures, Microsoft is shutting down its MSN TV Internet service on September 30, 2013. Those with long memories will remember that MSN TV had its origins in the Web TV venture founded by Steve Perlman et al. Founded in 1995, Web TV allowed the not-so-web savvy and […]
I had some positive feelings about Lootera until the last 30-minutes or so of the film. And then all my good vibes came crashing down because of the butchering the late American short-story writer O.Henry’s Last Leaf had to endure at the inept hands of director Vikramaditya Motwane. O.Henry Screwed Set in the early 1950s, […]
O, willful ignorants! Do you not see the future? Do you not grasp the splendor of my creation? The necessity? – Bertrand Zobrist in Dan Brown’s new thriller Inferno Chutiyas a.k.a. Indians have two great destructive passions – Ferocious breeding and watching crappy Bollywood movies. Rabbits, dogs, cats, rats, bats, maggots, I doubt there’s a […]
Being cheapo desis, we started salivating when the $99 Ouya game console launched last week. Such was the demand that the consoles quickly disappeared from shelves within hours. We had to wait a couple of days before our online order was fulfilled. Since picking up the console yesterday, we’ve been trying out the various features. […]
Indian movie-makers are turning me off the medium of films with their insane Idée fixe on love. Hindi, Tamil or Telugu, most Indian movies have this unyielding, tiresome obsession with love. I’m sick and tired of watching yet another love story. So I was delighted to stumble upon The Lives of Others (2006), a remarkable […]
The Obama White House received another blow with the public petition to Pardon Edward Snowden hitting the 100,000 milestone. Pardon Edward Snowden petition was created on June 9, 2013 after it became known that Snowden was the fearless leaker of information on the U.S. National Security Agency’s illegal spying on the American people. The Right […]