Apparently, just three weeks after its release, I was already among the last people on Earth to see Avatar, James Cameron's long-awaited special effects epic. I was lucky to be invited to a free screening in Hollywood after which Cameron himself spoke about the movie. That's one of the perks of living in Los Angeles. Anyway, now that I've rubbed… read more!

I was in no hurry to see this long-gestating Avatar sequel. I found the first Avatar to be one big cliché – sometimes exciting but mostly corny and dumb. Dances with Wolves in space. Noting that it fell off the cultural radar so soon after it conquered the box office, I wondered, as many did, whether audiences would really be… read more!