This morning I helped an elderly couple pick their first ever smartphone. It was a wonderful experience; eye-opening at times. I have known them for a while, and they have been telling me for a couple of months that they wanted to buy an iPhone. I had asked them to wait until Apple launched their [...]
[To Gokul] In his review of The Godfather, Roger Ebert explains why we are enamored of the movie’s characters: We tend to identify with Don Corleone’s family not because we dig gang wars, but because we have been with them from the beginning, watching them wait for battle while sitting at the kitchen table and eating [...]
Christmas Eve 1987 will forever remain etched in my mind. I was four years old. And it was the first time I witnessed my mom, a strong-willed lady, cry. MGR had died. I did not understand back then why anyone would feel so strongly about the passing away of another person they had not even [...]
Summary: Technically brilliant, historically inaccurate, well-packaged fantasy tale of a man on a singular mission — to kill Vasco da Gama. What I liked Packaging: Movies set against a historical backdrop can quickly turn into documentaries, and thus risk putting audiences to sleep. At times, the audience might choose to entirely shun such a movie [...]
An excellent short film — a beautiful tale, very well told. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Like Robert Browning wrote: Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made
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