Published in The Good Weekender, July 1, 2006
When did being human become so boring? When did movies with the florid and poetic Dickensian tales of intense sentimentality and humanism become so dull? When did we turn our back on humanity and run in mass glee to cinemas of the otherworldly praying at the feet of [...]

Published in The Good Weekender, July 1, 2006
Humility and insecurity sing a similar song. So similar, indeed, that we too often find ourselves singing along to a false cause, with the gravelly rawness of insecurity being mistaken for the syrupy mellifluousness of humility.It is a confusion with which I was left after speaking to eighties [...]

Published in The Good Weekender, May 26, 2006
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. George Orwell’s idealistic notion stands remarkably resolute in liberal democracies, yet elsewhere is shackled by fear and religious bigotry as the freedom of speech is impiously squashed by [...]

Published in The Good Weekender, April 29, 2006
Truman Capote was a hugely beguiling character. His aerated gregariousness delicately veneered his solid drive and spindly ego. His questionable bent on duplicity uncomfortably sat alongside his stunningly unique talent to make a character most screenwriters dream to conjure. And seldom do characters of such personality live vacuous [...]

Published in The Good Weekender, June 3, 2006
Hollywood, like all things, is finite. As heartening a thought as this may be (especially when one contemplates the seemingly infinite drivel it produces), we must too acknowledge that the world is similarly finite and the death of Hollywood will most likely coincide with the death of the [...]