By Madmax 673 I went in with a lot of expectation for this reboot version of Evil Dead as it’s hard to forget the original classic. Second, this flick, unlike other Hollywood franchise movies that rush into reboots, has waited three decades. Even more to me is that this is my third movie review for […]
I imagine saying those words – “My family, they are all dead, in an instant they vanished” – and I reel. – Sonali Deraniyagala in Wave (p.116) I don’t understand all this hype about Sonali Deraniyagala’s book Wave. Maybe, it’s because Sonali lost all her dear ones (husband, two young sons and both parents) in […]
By Madmax673 For anyone interested in ‘Kovil Thirupani’ (temple deeds & renovation), a visit to the Sri Siva Vishnu Temple in Lanham, MD is a great opportunity. Looks like the temple is working on procuring “Mooshika Vahana” (Mouse vehicle for Lord Ganesh) for ‘Vahana Seva’ at $15,000 for use in the temple festivals. Devotees are […]
By Naveen Sajid Khan’s HIMMATWALA (2013) is touted as the official remake of the eponymous 1983 super hit movie starring Jumping Jack Jeetendra and her thighness Sridevi. Unless you are a newbie to Bollywood, you know that Super Hit and Super Shit are highly synonymous in that industry and most sane humans say the 1983 […]
Like most odious Bollywood films, Himmatwala (1983) has its origins in South India, or what North Indians mischievously refer to as gaand Bharat. In 1981, a South Indian director with the unpronounceable appellation of Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao cobbled up a plain awful movie in the Telugu language called Ooriki Monagadu starring Krishna and Jayaprada (who won notoriety […]
This town is full of men who deserve to die. – The Samurai to the inn-keeper in Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece Yojimbo As we were watching Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (1961), an eerie feeling of seeing one of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns crept over us. You know, a stranger drifts into a small town where bad things […]