Since we love Jamie Foxx’ movies, we wanted to see Law Abiding Citizen when it released in theaters last year. For whatever reason, we never got around to it and then got preoccupied with newer Bollywood and Kollywood films. So the other day when we were scrolling through Netflix’ Instant Play recent releases and espied […]
Run from the South Indian Impostor (File photo) In our ceaseless, unrelenting quest for a good Dosa, we’ve been known to haunt the major highways and small bylanes of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia in an obsessive-compulsive-ferocious frenzy. Kinda like Dr. Hunter ‘Gonzo’ Thompson searching for the American Dream in Las Vegas. […]
(For SI Blog readers kd36939, Gandhiji et al) Farewell a.k.a. L’affaire Farewell (French) is simply the best spy film we’ve seen in our life. And also the most sui generis spy film – we heard gun-shots only twice in the entire movie. Eschewing Indian films like Khatta Meetha and Pudangadi oops Thillalangadi that have earned […]
We have enjoyed many of Tom Cruise’s films in the past. Movies like Rain Man, Collateral, The Firm, A Few Good Men, Mission Impossible et al have afforded us mucho pleasure. So, notwithstanding the generally poor or tepid reviews we went ahead, albeit with tempered expectations, to Cruise’s new film Knight and Day. Verdict There […]
If Tamil film star Vijay had any shame at all, he’d lash himself till he bleeds out of every pore of his dark-skinned body and then nail his frame to a wooden metal cross. That would be a fitting Prayaschit (atonement) for the Judas act of loosening his bowels and raining this dysentery a.k.a. Vettaikaran […]
When Tamil film actor Vijay shuffles off his mortal coils, the coffin lowered, the last heap of soil flung on the decorated box and the tombstone erected, the epitaph will most likely read Punnaku Pandi – Failed Comedian. With a zany knack for picking films whose only qualification is that they must be bizarrely nonsensical […]