Saturday, September 25, 2021

"Sesame" was the name of the sled.

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Ali Baba Aur 40 Chor (1980) is the Bollywood equivalent of those Russo-Finnish fantasy epics that occasionally pop up on Mystery Science Th...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Take the last train to Chennai.

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Chennai Express (2013) is a deliberate throwback to Shah Rukh Khan's early career.  In fact, it's a throwback to a very specific pe...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

And Geneva. Afternoons in Lebanon and Canada.

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If you choose to watch An Evening in Paris (1967), you will absolutely get to see at least one evening in Paris, along with other times of ...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

An adventure in space and time. By which I mean Brazil.

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Professor Shanku O El Dorado (2019) is billed as "India's First Science Fiction." It's obviously not India's first sc...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

One of the most accurate movie titles I have ever seen.

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Actors grow up so quickly.  It seems like only yesterday that Jimmy Shergill was playing the fresh-faced young Karan in Mohabbatein , and ho...
Saturday, August 21, 2021

Chhota Bheem and the Highly Successful Marketing

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Chhota Bheem is a successful Indian cartoon franchise.  There's certainly an awful lot of it; the original series has run for twelve se...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Yamagain.

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Yama movies tend to be pretty predictable.  There are a few basic plots which get recycled and rewritten over and over again.  Yama has to v...