Well, this is a depressing way to end the year. Fever of 100 degrees according to my funky thermometer. Or, possibly, 98.6. Or 93. I am not good at taking my temperature. Anyway, distract me and give me something to do as I wait for my body to burn out illness like a self-cleaning oven.

Another life update! It’s weird doing these, but it’s a little better than just putting up an announcement “sorry, no new posts” over and over again. I mean, it essentially is just saying “no new posts”, but with a little bit of entertaining life details.

This is such a nice movie!  Not a perfect movie, a little confused in some parts, felt like the connective tissue was missing a bit, but overall a very nice movie.

Joyomama won last week and is getting a beautiful card, and I want to show it to you all. If you want your very own beautiful card, just give me your address at the bottom of this post. Not this card, because Joyomama got the last one, but a different equally beautiful one.

You can skip this if you don’t want/need a regular bloggy type report on me. But if you are curious, or are so desperate for entertainment that you are willing to read it (because there won’t be anything else new going up for a while), you can.

Good morning! Or “bad morning”. I am not having a good day, and I am probably not going to have a good next week, so the focus of this Saturday’s Small Talk is “Let’s Cheer Up Margaret!” Well, and everyone else, because the week after Christmas is always kind of sucky.

I’ve got an extra day off next week and I want to get back into the swing of things, so I need a Malayalam film to review. BUT! I am also sick and depressed (my sister gave me her cold and Christmas is over)! I don’t want any of that “and then the rain falls over their shattered lives” Malayalam endings. HAPPY! HAPPY HAPPY! What is happy and also high quality and also I haven’t watched/reviewed it yet?

This is an interesting movie.  Because it is both a sports movie and a true story, which means we know everything about it already.  But at the same time, we don’t, because we don’t know what particular angle the filmmaker is going to choose to look at to show us this story. 

This is a Zero inspired post, but isn’t about Zero, or about Khan movies, it is about the difference between a wide release movie and a regular release movie and why all the eggs are increasingly going in the wide release basket. This is also one of many posts I have written on the same topic, never saying exactly the same thing. Which is kind of the point, the film industry is complex with multiple forces at work on it, I can write many different long posts talking about all the things that might affect box office beyond 3 actors.

Christmas is over, but the Christmas give away continues!!!!! There are many of you I haven’t heard from, new and old commentators, and I am happy to give a card to ALL of you. Just give me your address.

I am so excited, FINALLY a full length Ek Ladki Ko Dekha trailer!!!!! And it looks very unusual and very interesting and I am excited.

So exciting! A Shahrukh release box office day! And, as usual lately, it is neither the exciting flop nor the exciting hit that the media wants it to be. Sometimes things are just kind of bad without being “the Worst EVER”! (as always figures from bollywoodhungama)

Let’s Play Madlibs! The Classic Holiday Fun game!

More holiday fun!  This is if you need a brainteaser to occupy you for hours and hours, or perhaps to share with the rest of the family and let them struggle along too.

This is a fun off-shoot of this post, in which I described (as I saw them) the three types of romantic fantasy men in Indian film. But let’s make this fun and turn it into one of those silly magazine quizzes! Are you an Alpha, Beta, or Zeta lover?

This is a game suggestion from my sister, and I promised to give her credit, so here it is!!!! Credit!!!!  Now that Nick-PC have broken the India-America celebrities bar, who else would we put together, were we to control the universe?

More post-Christmas fun!!!! A discussion to sneak off to when you are just sick of relatives, or to have with said relatives if they are fun and open-minded.

Another fun game for us!  And easier this time than when I first posted it, because I was missing a couple photos then but I’m not now. Can you match the star’s face to their torso?????

I like this game. We can play it as a group if you post your answers in the comments, or you can play it with the people you are with, or just silently in your head to pass the time.

Happy Day After Christmas/Salman’s Birthday/Boxing Day!!!! To help keep you entertained as you sneak glimpses of the internet on your phone, or to spark conversation as you giggle away with your girl cousins or middle-aged aunties, I will be providing quizzes/games all day. Starting with the most recent one, a quiz to discover who is your perfect star match!

Happy Day After Christmas!!!! I hope your holiday was lovely, and that you don’t have to rush rush back to work right away.

This is not just Boxing Day, but also SALMAN DAY!!!!! Yaaaaay! And to celebrate, instead of digging out my same old “50+ reasons I love you” posts, I am reposting my review of my favorite Salman movie. Really highly encourage everyone to watch it who has not yet seen it.

Happy Christmas afternoon! We are all sitting around playing with our new toys and dozing lightly, and I just checked in with Indian film and Salman’s twitter was so cheerful and full of holiday joy, I just had to share it! And some other stuff as well. (also, my embeds are acting weird, click the link if it doesn’t show up)