Tag: Mumbai
Sacred Games
The the film, “Slumdog Millionaire” has brought world-wide attention to India and the city of Mumbai. 12 million people and their squalid living conditions were suddenly put on the world’s radar. A common criticism of the film by those familiar with Mumbai are the f ilm’s flashy bright colors and adept editing turned squalor of [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2009 under books.
Tags: Bollywood, Disneyland, Entertainment Tonite, Extra, Mumbai, Sacred Games, Slumdog Millionaire, Vikram Chandra
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The Oscar Nominations
The Academy Award Nominations were announced early this morning. There were some minor surprises among those nominated and those that weren’t, but all in all it should be a pretty interesting award show.
Here are some of the major categories and a few of my thoughts on who might win.
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Posted: January 22nd, 2009 under books, comedy, magazine, movies, radio, television.
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Danny Boyle, Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, Frost/Nixon, Gus Van Sant, Heath Ledger, Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marisa Tomei, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Mumbai, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Robert Downey Jr., Sam Mendes, Sean Penn, Six Feet Under, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Reader, The Wrestler, Viola Davis
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Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle’s vibrant Indian adventure has enjoyed such great word of mouth that you have to wonder if it’s getting a bit exaggerated (see Little Miss Sunshine). Sometimes such praise lacks foundation, but in this case it’s hard not to be enthusiastic about a very unique film- going experience.
The movie begins with 18-year-old Jamal (Dev Patel) [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2009 under movies.
Tags: Danny Boyle, Dev Patel, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire
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