An anonymous commenter (sorry! If you identify yourself in the comments, I will thank you!) posted a link to this article and I finally sat down and read it. It not only gives an extremely similar story to Hrithik-Kangana, only not between celebrities so it is easier to be objective, it also gives information on stalking behavior from psychiatrists and police experts.
Continue readingThank you Angie! This is a great idea. A list of movies about to release in theaters that I recommend. Hopefully it helps more of you see movies in theaters! It’s the best way, and also the best way to keep new movies coming out 🙂
Continue readingThis post comes to you from the gate at the airport as I wait for my boarding group to be called, so it will be very short. But still a nice thing for you all to talk about while I am in the air!
Continue reading6am flight tomorrow! Cab at 4am, I plan to wake up at 3:45. I already have all my clothes laid it, in the order in which I will put them on, so I don’t have to think about anything.
Continue readingOh boy, I get to recap the whole Hrithik-Kangana thing again! The only good thing is, I was team Hrithik from the start (go me!) because Kangana’s story was always just WEIRD, and his wasn’t. So I get a little ego-boost each time it comes up again. But that is literally the ONLY good thing. Otherwise, it is all stressful and exhausting and strangely repetitive. I would much rather go back to Kangana’s weird work issues than digging up her work-personal issues.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday!!!! I’m having one of those long slooooooooow work weeks. Too much to do, so they days go by fast, but I am exhausted at the end. Oh well, half way through!
Continue readingThe best movie, I really truly think, is the one I will be reviewing on Sunday, Pari. It gets at the pain and sacrifice and terror of motherhood in a really visceral way. But these are all good too, if you want to sob and sob about the misery of being a mother.
Continue readingThis is such a good movie, SUCH a good movie! So good that I blocked it out of my head because it was also disturbing. But beautiful. And somehow the audience didn’t embrace it and not as many people saw it as it deserved. So I am going to try remedy that. Oh, and hey! Mother’s Day! It’s actually a perfect Mother’s Day movie.
Continue readingAnother SOTY2 song? This one might be my favorite in every way, but I am still kind of tired of them all. On the other hand, the Ekta Kapoor Mental Hai Kya statement is FASCINATING.
Continue readingThere is just barely enough between Jackie and Tiger to patch together a 101. But still worth doing! For Jackie in particular, he is an odd odd man.
Continue readingI am guessing the overlap between Shahrukh fans/Netflix watchers/Tubelight watchers is very very limited. But for those of you who are familiar with all three, hopefully you (like me) are thinking “YES! That would be perfect!!!”
Continue readingPart 2! Not that these are less important stories, I just happened to write about them second.
Continue readingMore news! This is what happens when I ignore everything and have a life for two days/do a deep dive into Indian film criticism. I get so far behind on news posts that I have to put up multiple so we can keep the conversations from crossing streams.
Continue readingSo many stories today! None of them super worth talking about, but then that is why I do a “news round-up”, so I can just dip in a little bit to a whole bunch of things that aren’t worth their own post. And because there are so many little stories, I am going to do two posts, just to make it easier for discussion.
Continue readingHappy Monday! I am hosting the church quilting group tonight and debating which is more important, a last minute vacuum or a last minute “wear out the dog” trip to the dog park. I only have time for one and right now I am leaning dog park.
Continue readingHappy Cinco de Mayo! Â A Mexican holiday, which inspires me to find every vaguely Hispanic song in the history of Indian film. The last two years I have done 5 videos, this year I am going to challenge myself to find TEN videos! Fun times. Oh, and if you tend to ignore these posts, this is one you should pay attention to. I found really good and different songs.
Continue readingI think I may have finally figured out what I like about Gautham Menon films. Â It took a while, because they seem like the kind of film I shouldn’t like, perfect heroes and opaque heroines. Â But with this film, I think I have cracked it. Â Oh, and also, Ajith looks goooo-ooooood with grey hair! Â Which is neither here nor there, but I felt it should be acknowledged.
Continue readingWatched another early morning classic noir, a jail break movie. But what intrigued me for an Indian remake is that it managed to come up with the most shocking possible plot and I kind of want to see someone remake it just to watch everyone Lose Their Freakin’ Minds. And I also watched an early morning classic family film which would be perfect if Shahrukh wanted to play a befuddled father. Or Anil. Or Aamir. Whoever.
Continue readingI have to confess, I have never watched Rehna Hai Tera Dil Mein. Don’t even know why, it is right in my alleyway. Anyway, now is the time!
Continue readingHappy Saturday! Albie got bumped to a different obedience class and I am trying not to take it personally. He tries! We both try!
Continue readingObviously, today is Star Wars day. And so I am reposting my Star Wars fanfic post. And I am adding on regional cast ideas (mostly because Prithviraj has to be Han Solo if there is any justice in the world)
Continue readingAfter reviewing a bunch of fun light movies, I am going to go super dark all of a sudden. Brace yourself!
Continue readingI started out writing a different post, but halfway through I discovered something really interesting when I looked at the reviewer aggregate information on Rotten Tomatoes. The state of Indian film reviewing is way more f’ed up than I realized.
Continue readingI’ve decided I like living in a temperate climate. Wait for it, this will have a meaning. It’s sunny today after a series of rainy days which is throwing me into that weird springtime headspace where everything and nothing both seem possible. Which is better than the winter headspace of total sluggishness where nothing matters, but not as good as the mid-summer headspace of being mildly irritable or the fall headspace of being filled with optimism. Anyway, I was thinking about how some people live in places where their headspace and the weather doesn’t wildly change every 4 months, and I think I wouldn’t like that. It’s good for me to get all shaken out of my mind space every few months, even if it makes me feel bad some of the time. And today, it didn’t make me feel bad, just weird, as I kept being thrown back in time by the music playing on my ipod while I drove to work. I can’t be the only one who gets musically created Deja Vu, right?
Continue readingThis is the 106th anniversary of Indian film. I already put up a post about the start of it all, Dadasaheb Phalke, but I want to keep going. And after Phalke came the start of the other little studios, like Wadia Movietone.
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