Pirate Latitudes This is a book by Michael Crichton that was published posthumously from a completed manuscript that they found among his things. It is set in the sixteenth century in the Caribbean waters. The book starts off quite well. The plot begins in the town of Port Royal, Jamaica where we get a glimpse of the colonial lifestyle of those ( Read more... )

More than two months ago, very late into the last year, I was watching Salaam Bombay and then spent the same amount of time watching the special features on the DVD : the director's commentary, the special featurettes and the director of photographer's commentary. To be honest, I found the movie a bit tedious after about half-way through- it was as ( Read more... )

Cavite, Phillipines: where Intel is closing a fab
Cavite: A movie on which Aamir was said to be based.

Tanya Roberts: Bond girl in the 1985 movie A view to a kill
Tanya Roberts: Donna's mom in That 70s Show

Sam Adams: beer
Sam Adams: bear


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I was at a used book sale when I spotted the novel Jurassic Park. The cover proclaimed Soon to be made into a major motion picture!. I recently finished reading it. When I told a coworker that I was reading that book, I was met with a laugh of the "Surely you're joking" variety. "Reading" Jurassic Park ( Read more... )

In my experience, movies based on books rarely live up to the promise of the book. But as I started reading Q&A by Vikas Swarup while comparing it to Slumdog Millionaire I found it hard to unequivocally decide which was better - the book or the movie. So I decided to do it the quantitative way!. I wanted to compare the two and assign points as I ( Read more... )

Chetan Bhagat has hit the jackpot. After 5.someone one would have thought that he would be a one-hit wonder, but his second book sold more and the latest one has outdone the previous two. Although 5.someone was a good read, I didn't care so much for the second one and haven't read the third.

His second book has now been made into a movie , and the ( Read more... )

I saw Bheja Fry yesterday. I wouldn't have if I had trusted the review from JAM magazine's editor, I probably wouldn't have seen it. However, I did and liked it too. There isn't much of a story, but there's good humour - especially from Vinay Pathak who is the star of the movie. Vinay Pathak and Ranvir Shorey (I hope the spelling is correct) used ( Read more... )

Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna Unconvincing. If this movie had been made without the stars, I don't think many people would have seen it. The characters aren't quite convincing. I didn't at all sympathize with either Rani Mukherjee's or Shahrukh Khan's character. A disappointment overall.

Khosla ka Ghosla Every once in a while such a movie comes and ( Read more... )

My last midterm exam just ended. I was the first to leave the room. I'm not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.

10 months after I heard about Layer Cake, I'm going to watch it now. It is one of those gangster comedy movies - the one's that I like in the genre are Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Be Cool etc.

I saw the movie Friends with Money. I think they wanted to say that happiness has nothing to do with money. Or something like that.