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Justin Cronin’s The Passage to be released on June 8, 2010

Set in a world taken over by vampires, The Passage, the first in a three-book series by Justin Cronin, will be adapted into a film by director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Robin Hood, Body of Lies).

NBC announces Perfect Couples

NBC has announced that romantic comedy Perfect Couples will join five new scripted series – Chase, Undercovers, The Event, Love Bites and Outsourced – for the 2010-2011 season. Perfect Couples details the life of three engaging couples who are attempting to figure out the whats and whys of an ideal relationship — and how to [...]

Seventymm.com service standards slipping

Update: 24 hours after I wrote this, the requested DVDs reached me. On Sunday, a friend visited. While talking, she asked me how my experience with the online DVD/ VCD rental service seventymm was. Told her it was not great. The reason was two-fold: One, I find their range of movies just not enough. When [...]

Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag or King Kong vs Godzilla?

So I watched it – first day, second show. Because I was sure this is gonna be a super duper flop. What else could you think, after watching the ridiculous promos on TV? In the promos, there was Ajay Devgan trying to romance a play-acting Nisha Kothari in small pieces of clothing. There was the [...]

Shahrukh Khan in Robot, directed by Shankar of Sivaji

What will SRK and Shankar do to science fiction? I m no lover of Bollywood movies. Or Tollywood movies, for that matter. Sure I can sit through most of them, but that is because I do not expect to see logical stuff. I enjoy them the way I can enjoy a good farce. But science [...]