Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Played with Fire starts with a confidence, maybe certainty, that the readers of his previous book will hold on no matter what. Lisbeth Salander gets a lot of pages. This is her book. She travels the world; reads Principia Mathematica; tries proving Little Fermat’s theorem; and gets her breasts enlarged, [...]
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PIFF Movie Review: Emotional Arithmetic
Paolo Barzman’s Emotional Arithmetic is an inequation with four very capable actors on one side and a whole that doesn’t add up on the other. Nobody can be blamed of over-expecting when Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Max von Sydow and Susan Sarandon star not in a grand epic but a gentle drama. They play such [...]
Crossing Off Alex Cross
Going by James Patterson’s income, Alex Cross has been the most resourceful detective in the world for a while now. I suspect that it is the personal side of this “doctor detective” that endeared him to most readers. A sensitive family macho man who plays the piano to relax, watches animation movies with his children, [...]
Where are all the men?
Last week, I was still listening to SPB-Illayaraja songs. Songs in A. Kodandarami Reddy’s abhilASha were among them. The movie has some wonderful songs, but that is not my point. There are three wonderful male characters in abhilASha — CKP Chiranjeevi, Sentry Sarma, and the great criminal lawyer Sarvottama Rao. In fact, there are three [...]