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Super Deluxe: A Samsonite stuffed to bursting point

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 filmiholicNew releases

Take one statuesque transgender absentee father, a would-be godman reborn from the sea, a former porn actress and devoted mother, four horny teenage boys, a film-savvy loan shark, one unfaithful newlywed wife and her cuckolded[…]

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Jai Ho in the General Assembly: AR Rahman at the UN

August 25, 2016 filmiholicHindi

When I first got a text weeks ago from the event organizer hinting there was something big happening in New York on August 15 with AR Rahman, I said “Oh, India Day parade?” and was[…]

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Mani Ratnam at MOMI

July 31, 2015August 25, 2016 filmiholicDays gone by

  Starting tonight (Friday) and running through Sunday afternoon, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY is holding a special retrospective of director Mani Ratnam’s films under the title Politics as Spectacle: The[…]

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Singam 2: Too Lite

July 7, 2013July 7, 2013 filmiholicNew releases

First time in all my Tamil movie-watching in New York and New Jersey, I witnessed in person Friday night that massive hero worship of Tamil film fans.  When the opening credits of Singam 2 started[…]

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Aiyyaa: Let’s hear it for the girl

October 14, 2012 filmiholicNew releases

When I was a teenager in Catholic school, somewhere in either Junior or Senior year, I remember sitting in Mass one day and hearing the priest tell the congregation during the homily (the discussion of[…]

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Le Tamoul – for a change!

July 21, 2012July 21, 2012 filmiholicBooks

When recently directing a friend who was in Paris to the website for L’Harmattan bookstore there, and their amazing selection of Francophone African literature, and all variety of “international books,” I couldn’t help but notice[…]

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