Wednesday 11/20: Nayakan (Malayalam, einthusan)
Thursday 11/21: Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (Tamil, einthusan)
Thursday 11/21: Darling (Telugu, youtube free)
Friday 11/22: Udaan (Hindi, Netflix)
Friday 11/22: Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (Hindi, Netflix)
Saturday 11/23: Dabangg (Hindi, itunes and einthusan)
I considered “Best Item Songs”, but that’s really just “Sheila” versus “Munni Badnaam” and there is only one clear answer there (“Sheila”). So these are all the party songs, including Item Songs, that I think are worthy of remembering from 2010.
Continue readingHe’s still charming I guess, but he’s not like professionally charming. After his 2 year paternity leave (which I continue to find RIDICULOUS) he doesn’t seem to have much interest in returning to work. But back in 2010, I had a crazy crush on him and he was a delight.
Continue readingNot the greatest movie, but a really really good movie. And a really really good cast, except for Ranbir. Kat does great, Arjun Rampal does really great, Ajay does unsurprisingly great. And there’s…Him. The human whine. Not that I am prejudiced.
Continue readingSuch an odd movie. I’ve yet to show it to someone who didn’t end up a sobbing broken mess by the end. Or to someone who didn’t giggle a bit at a scene here or there. The odd thing is, the “sobbing broken” moments and the “giggle” moments seem slightly different for each person.
Continue readingThis was a surprisingly rich year for those peppy bouncy catchy songs that get stuck in your head. The ones that aren’t quite party songs, or love songs, but somewhere in between.
Continue readingThis should be a gimme, surely! Everyone has to have an opinion on this, right? Say something, let me know you are alive! Not that I am anyone to talk, I know what’s happening, I spent time this week buying and mailing Christmas cards and putting up decorations and so on. But still, can’t we take a little time to talk about meaningless stuff on the internet even during the holiday season?
Continue readingYes, I am doing it, I am taking a stand and making a judgment call! These are the best love songs of 2010 and everything else is useless TRASH! Not only that, I’m even ranking them. Disagree if you dare. (oh, and there will probably be a party song post later, so don’t freak out because “Sheila Ki Jawani” is missing or something. Just pure love songs)
Continue readingThis is a very good deep review that did not get many readers or comments the first time around. I’m okay if the same is true this time. It’s a dark dark movie. I don’t want DCIB to become a dark place, so if you do comment, try to find a brightness in it somewhere. For instance, “this is a dark movie, and I am so proud that Shahrukh Khan was one of the first people to speak out about Islamophobia in America”. Or just keep it superficial, “this movie is so frustrating because there is so much well done in it, but the plot just makes no sense.”
Continue readingShoot, I was gonna be lazy and repost a review, and then I discovered I never actually reviewed this film. Oh well, I can still be kind of lazy, at least I don’t have to rewatch it, I’ve seen it enough to review it fine without a refresher.
Continue readingWell, this is a disappointment! Not based on the poster, it’s perfectly in line with what I expected from that, but based on the initially casting and topic announcement I had higher hopes. Oh well, all of life is just a series of disappointments (it’s overcast today and I haven’t had my coffee yet).
Continue readingHappy Monday! I had a productive weekend and Albie Dog had a bad weekend. Yesterday he had to survive both a bath, and me vacuuming the apartment. Life’s hard for a dog.
Continue readingI am off to my father’s birthday party tonight, so no time to write a fanfic today. Instead, enjoy a rerun of father themed stories!
Continue readingI really hope a lot of you are watching this on Netflix! It is such a happy good feeling family movie, I feel like the world will be a better place if more people watch it.
Continue readingThe honor!!! The infinite GLORY!!!!!!! Bask in it Filmikudhi and enjoy your week of triumph. And remember, you shouldn’t stop commenting! If you make the most comments some other week, you won’t get a card, but you may qualify for one of the three Bonus Prizes.
Continue readingI guess there was a thing on twitter about best films of the past decade? And Film Companion did a thing about it too (no doubt Rahul Desai wrote something stupid). Anyway, I started to try to do that and got bogged down in 2010 alone and decided to stop there.
Continue readingI skipped reminding you for two months, and then last month I got an alert that my DCIB account was overdrawn $60, so I am reminding you all again so I don’t get in trouble for paying for things with money I no longer have.
Continue readingYes, this silly silly movie that released weeks ago is getting the full no spoiler/spoiler review treatment from me. Whatever, I had fun with it! And you can watch it if you want once it hits streaming and then come back and read these reviews. Or if you already caught it in theaters, read this review to talk about your response to the complexities of the narrative.
Continue readingThis is exactly what I want from a Housefull movie. No surprises, nothing unexpected, and Akshay Kumar is continually humiliated and tortured.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I am going to write reviews and do laundry and then go to my friend’s birthday party tonight. Busy busy! You all get to entertain yourselves in the meantime.
Continue readingMy God is this a cute movie! It’s the kind of movie that you just want to pinch it’s cheeks and toss it in the air and dress in novelty clothing. SO CUTE!
Continue readingWell, comments continue to be terrible (they always are in November and December, unless there is a new good Shahrukh movie, that’s why I do the giveaways), so I am upping the stakes this year! A special one time prize for the person who makes the most comments among all the weeks!
Continue readingHey, a real TGIF! In honor of Juhi week, lets look at lots and lots of pictures. Pictures are fun, pictures are easy, pictures are something I can do between many many work phone calls (4 co-workers are at a conference, one is home sick, one is home moving house, and one is here with me trying to handle the entire office on our own. Oh, and Albie Dog is here, trying to be helpful).
Continue readingI bowed to the pressure and rewatched it last night to prepare for a review, and it is so much cuter than I remembered. More importantly, it is just BEGGING for a modern day north-south remake.
Continue readingSo I was rewatching bits of Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman and considering how specific the Juhi-Shahrukh interactions are, especially from Shahrukh’s side, and I had a thought. And now I will look at their filmography and see if the thought I thought holds up.
Continue readingI fastforwarded through this movie to remind myself what it was like, and my goodness the Boring Dude is way more boring than I remembered! Juhi makes terrible romantic decisions.
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