If you schmucks thought all that Americans do is get their breasts augmented, penises enlarged and skins tanned, you’d be so wrong. Americans have a different obsession – online videos. In April alone, Americans watched 16.8 billion online videos, an increase of 16% over the prior month. Must be something in the water here. Because […]
If Akshay Kumar’s forthcoming Kambakkht Ishq is indeed a remake of the 2002 Kamal Haasan-Simran film Pammal K. Sambandam, it’s a harbinger of more crap for Akshay Kumar fans and Bollywood addicts. And a reflection of the utter poverty of ideas and the current comatose state of Bollywood. Because Pammal K. Sambandam is garbage, plain […]
Should a gaggle of rustic ambattans (barbers) suddenly decide to forsake their razors for the camera, the end result would be infinitely better than this grotesque abomination called Thoranai. Save the unsavory feat of shaving a few unwary souls of their money and time, Thoranai’s sole claim to fame is that the crappy movie marks […]
Despite all the hype, hoopla and the glitzy ads, casino cities in the U.S. like Las Vegas (NV) or Atlantic City (N.J) have little to offer other than a ring of tacky casinos with endless miles of slot machines, skimpily-clad waitresses serving drinks and cheap buffets. A few years back, we went to Atlantic City […]
(Recommended by SI reader guruprasad) Just received the High Noon DVD from Netflix. Released in 1952, the 85-minute movie features Gary Cooper and our beloved Grace Kelly. Directed by Fred Zinnemann, the movie went on to win four Academy Awards including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. High Noon is not our first Gary Cooper film. […]
Just finished watching Chop Shop (2007) on DVD. Written and directed by young Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani with a cast of ‘non-actors,’ the 84-minute-long Chop Shop is a nice movie centering around a young boy Alejandro (Alejandro Polanco) working in an auto repair shop in Queens, New York. Displaying a maturity beyond his years, the […]