Rediscovering my passion for the series Scott Bakula starred in–one of my favourite shows from back in the day, Quantum Leap. The show’s premise is that physicist Samuel Beckett “leaps” back in time, inhabiting the bodies of different people. He’s trying to change history, to put right what went wrong, and hopefully return home.
What I [...]

I finally finished Season 6 of The Sopranos. The series started strong and really had me hooked up until around the 5th season when things began to drag. The same plots repeated themselves, with little variation, thus eliciting little surprise.
 
What I notice is that Tony Soprano ends up killing many of the people he professes [...]

I haven’t seen a single episode, yet the sense of anticipation I feel while looking forward to watching the British series This Life is heavier than the advance lineups for the latest/lamest Star Wars installment/disappointment. The best measure of it’s impact and the way it won audiences hearts over is the uniformly caustic reaction to [...]

Just saw the advance screening of Wes Anderson’s latest, The Darjeeling Limited. Starring Owen Wilson (who was recently hospitalized on August 26 after a suicide attempt), there is also a brief cameo by Bill Murray–a bit of razzle dazzle thrown in that adds nothing to the virtually non-existant plot.

I won’t call Anderson completely insensitive to [...]

Observe Floyd Mayweather’s brilliant performance on the highly touted Dancing With the Stars television program. Many people believed that he was the professional, and that Karina Smirnoff was his partner. The judges, however, were absolutely scathing, giving him the lowest score: “[Judge] Carrie Ann told him to remember his partner is ‘a woman; she’s not [...]

Two days ago, the UPS guy dropped off my new handset: a Nokia 5200. I had my heart set on a Nokia E62, which is basically a budget Blackberry or iPhone, but the data charges would have been ridiculous. Not only that, but Fido wanted $150 for the E62 while the 5200 was offered to [...]

When I visit College Park, from the lineups for Toronto International Film Festival tickets, you would have thought that the Beatles reunited. People stand there with a sense of self-importance, maybe subtle joy at the luxury that is consuming pre-theatrical release films.
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My new interview with Canadian director Clement Virgo comes out in SWAY magazine tomorrow, [...]

After finishing Rohinton Minstry’s book Such A Long Journey, it really strikes me how he captures the essence of time, memories, and friendship. The is a plot line in the novel where the story could veer off and become a James Bond-type thriller–but luckily, the delusion is stopped cold in its tracks.
Instead of fast cars, [...]

Two books to talk about this week. The first is by British writer Jonathan Rendall, who I knew previously from his classic This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own. While searching for more information about him online, I found an excerpt from his 2006 release Garden Hopping. This memoir is about his search for [...]

From the opening scene where a group of wannabe-gangster youths are smashing a Gora (a white male) for supposedly calling them pakis to the turnaround lick that appears on the final pages, Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani is a captivating measure of Desi-Lit.
Currently the editor in charge of the Creative Business section of The Financial Times having worked his [...]