Recent Posts Tagged With 'south asia'

• [SOUTH ASIAN REVIEWS] கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy)

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 00:58 in video, Thriller, action, comedy, south asia, drama, cult, musical

  With super powers come super responsibilities.If there's anything that India's insanely vibrant and varied film culture has taught us to expect, that is its continued defiance of any and all expectations. And when it comes to Kollywood, Tamil Nadu's...

• Chicken Superheroes Save (?) the World in Tamil Blockbuster கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy)

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 14:26 in video, Thriller, action, south asia, drama, cult, musical

  We've had batmen, spidermen, zebramen, but wait for it.... Chicken Man is coming, courtesy of Kollywood (the Tamil "cousin" of Bollywood, if you will). Susi Ganesan's fourth feature film கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy) is - at least on paper ...

• Amitabh Bachchan Regresses To Childhood in PAA

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 10:53 in video, comedy, south asia, drama

  If R Balakrishnan's Paa were a Hollywood production I would suggest it was an incredibly clumsy attempt at Oscar bait.  But it's not a Hollywood picture and so it simply stands as a reminder of how incredibly strange Bollywood can be.Starring ...

• 3RD I 2009: Michael Hawley Previews the Line-up

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 16:12 in south asia, Festivals, south asian cinema, random festival news, 3rd i, michael hawley

  How fortunate can Twitch be to have two of the Bay Area's best film writers offer previews of what I consider to be this weekend's winner of--as Michael Hawley aptly terms it--November's "smackdown." Film festivalism has never been more athletic or...

• 3RD I 2009: Frako Loden Previews the Line-up

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 12:44 in action, documentary, comedy, south asia, drama, cult, western, musical, Festivals, random festival news

  [Our sincere thanks to Frako Loden for contributing her preview of this year's 3rd i line-up to the Twitch readership.] All the leaves are brown, and the skies are gray. November is here, and so is the most excellent 3rd i, or the San Francisco In...