Monday, February 16th, 2009
Check out the reviews of these great movies in New York Times. These were reviews written when the movies were released in the US. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) I did read somewhere that Once upon a Time in America was […]
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
I have this Sony system which I am very proud of, bought it about 5yrs back it costed me a bomb about 35k, it has 5 channels surround sound, mp3 player and all the works for that time (now its obsolete, doesn’t play your pirated DVDs, you know the ones which are blue in color). […]
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
For me it is going to be “The Dark Knight”, the promos looks great and Heath Ledger as “Joker” rocks. Sir Michael Cain claimed that Heath Ledger’s Joker topped that of “Jack Nicholson’s” Joker in the Tim Burtons “Batman”. The director Christopher Nolan has been my favorite after he made Memento. Remember Memento, Aamir Khan […]
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
I remember seeing Raiders of the lost arc, in plaza in the 80’s (or was it blue moon). At that time Raiders ran straight for 27 weeks. I think that was a record for an English movie. Remember those good old days when there used to be six cinema halls around the M.G Road and […]
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Last year was a good year for Hindi cinema; there were some really non formula movies churned out even from big banners like Yash Raj, yeah I am talking about “Chak De”. My favorite of the year was “Johnny Gaddaar”, if you grew up reading “James Hadley Chase” novels then you will love this movie, […]
Monday, May 5th, 2008
If you have been a UI designer/developer like me who used to do a lot of cut copy for JavaScript code from the web and then try to get the scripts to work without actually understanding what it does, then the book you should get is Jeremy Keith’s book on “Dom Scripting“. This book is […]
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I am a big fan of spaghetti westerns. This aficionado towards westerns started when a bunch of us in school cycled down to Symphony cinema hall in Bangalore and saw the movie “Good Bad and the Ugly“. At that time we had no clue that it was an Italian movie called “Buono, il brutto, il […]
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Well that’s a million dollar question. This has been debated on the net for quite sometime and I don’t think everyone has reached to a conclusion to settle on just one of them. A lot of people including me, used to use Divs. e.g. <div class=”fieldrow”> <label for=”firstName”>First Name</label> <input type=”text” name=”firstName” id=”firstName” /></div> I […]
