Here are some pictures from this Wednesday’s U2 concert at the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, delayed by one year due to Bono’s back surgery. Even with the balmy weather, it was a brilliant show. That expensive claw device that they designed to give their stadium show audiences a 360 degree experience was well […]
Author: filmiholic
Oh Karan: the Masala Zindabad KWK Season 3 Awards podcast
There’s that line parents give their children: ”It’s not that we’re mad at you, we’re disappointed,” and I think it really sums up my mixed feelings about the chat show (or should I say “cat show”, for all the catty behavior exhibited therein?) that is Koffee With Karan. Amrita of IndieQuill and Beth of Beth […]
Go, Kalinda, go!
Very pleased to see Archie Panjabi among the Emmy nominees just announced for her excellent work in CBS series The Good Wife. That show has been one of the best written, most intelligent and consistently surprising series to come along in several years. It’s layered and textured and never takes a misstep. And one of […]
Disney releasing three Indian films in North America
Two weeks from today Walt Disney Studios will take a historic step forward with the release of three Indian films in North America. On July 26th, Disney is simultaneously releasing Do Dooni Char, Zokkomon and Once Upon a Warrior on DVD, video-on-demand, and digital download. They will also be featured on iTunes that day. The […]
Book store wins Tony award
One of the bookshops I covered in a story for JetWings International magazine this past April has won a Tony award. (You can read the whole story about independent book stores in NYC here. Just type in ” 29 ” in the white Page box at the top of the screen, hit Enter and it will take you […]
Jig & the Global Appeal of Irish Dancing
To make this documentary, Jig, Scottish director Sue Bourne was able to do what no one else had done before. She approached An Commissiun – the governing body of the annual World Irish Dancing Championships – to request, and ultimately be granted, access to the 2010 “Worlds” (as the competitors and their retinues of parents […]