I’m being selfish, and asking you to give money to a group that is local to me. Donate to groups closer to you if you wish, but at least read the post because it makes me feel better to think about what good work Howard Brown is doing and has always done.
Continue readingI love bad jokes! Not like mean jokes, or gross adult humor, but jokes like “why did the chicken cross the road”. I am counting on you, my parents of children age 4 to 10! I know at some point your child went through a Joke phase! Share with me their brilliance!
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! This week is just flying by for me, mostly because the past two days have been very busy work days. Always makes time move faster for me.
Continue readingOnce again, nails the landing! Dhruv expresses himself in a way he has never really done before. And Mithila finally says the thing that will release them from the biggest issue of the season. (Little Things reviews index here)
Continue readingHoo boy! Glad we had the light episode before this one, because this one is HEAVY. Man, so heavy! Everything from the whole season before this comes together in a big blow out fight. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingAnother one of those fun research challenges for you. I wanted to do more than this, but I got stumped, so it is up to you to fill in the rest!
Continue readingI hope this isn’t too hard! I think it will be easy to start, and then harder as we go along. But I have faith we can do it! Or at least die trying.
Continue readingOkay, this week I started with Convenience! These are all movies available on Netflix or Prime, or both! Oh, and some of them are also kind of silly and lightweight.
Continue readingWell, it’s true, this is the Gayest Movie Ever. There’s 70s fashion, and there’s 70s Hindi film Masala Guy Love, and then there’s this movie. Which is just a whole other thing.
Continue readingThis is a pleasant episode, but doesn’t quite give the Big Thoughts that the other episodes this season did. It’s a throwback to last season, and is almost consciously a throwback, especially to the very first episode. Kind of taking a breath before we hit the finale. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingHappy Easter Monday! I had a lovely weekend, and now am back at work (blech!). But at least I still have some chocolate bunnies to comfort me.
Continue readingAnother fabulous episode! Really, this season is so good. I wish more of you were watching it. It’s happy, it’s beautiful, it makes you think about relationship stuff and life stuff and interesting things. Emily and I are loving it, the rest of you should try! (Little Things index here)
Continue readingHappy Easter! My Dad’s gonna make a ham, and we are going to hide eggs around the apartment.
Continue readingOh boy, time to start a new series! I finished Mentalhood, which was just perfect (frothy silly bright colored light weight fun with just the right amount of drama). I am still watching Little Things, which has taken an enormous leap forward in quality in season 2. But what should be my replacement one-episode-review-a-day show for Mentalhood????
Continue readingI watched these two back to back this morning, and I honestly can’t remember what happened in which one, so I am going to review them as one thing. Really they are one thing, it was just a two part finale. (full index of Mentalhood reviews here)
Continue readingHappy Easter! I am going to try to convince my parents to make tissue paper eggs and put them up on the windows. And also, as is traditional, sleep in and skip church (thank goodness my church is doing Zoom services, Easter Sunday wouldn’t be the same without that little zing of sinful sloth).
Continue readingThis is an off-shoot of my post on misogyny/objectification/patriarchy, in the comments there was a discussion of whether or not men are objectified in Indian film, which got me thinking about the “male” and “female” gaze questions.
Continue readingWoot! MANNAT! And a really lovely hopeful small gem of an episode. Don’t watch anything else of this show if you don’t want to, just watch this one episode and feel happy. (full index of reviews here)
Continue readingI can’t even follow all the plotlines that started and stopped this episode! I’m gonna try, but this review won’t be complete because SO MUCH. (full index of reviews here)
Continue readingBased on my highly sophisticated analysis, I am pretty sure the vast majority of my readers are female. So of the lists I have put out of suggestions to watch, the first (rom-coms) is to watch alone, the second (kid’s movies) to watch with your family. And now, movies to watch with your spouse! Or roommate or whatever, a fellow adult is the point.
Continue readingWooo, Mohit Suri! Nice hardworking guy with no hang ups about only making fancy respectable movies, just wants to make movies people like. And someday he and Angie can have a combined birthday party and talk about how he is her favorite director. (also, I lost my mind in the middle of this post and wrote an Angie-Mohit Suri fanfic)
Continue readingHappy Saturday! Which has meaning for me, since I still work regular hours and enjoy having the weekend off. Of course, being me, that just means I find a different non-job kind of work. Because what is life if not a serious of challenges to accomplish?
Continue readingAnother money episode! Think this is going to be the theme of the season, and that’s a good thing. Too few artworks honestly deal with money issues. Not showing poor people, but showing how money drives folks of all levels of society. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingI am very excited about this! When you add it all up, you can give all the characters a happy ending, if we just make them all Bi. And they are high school kids after all, hormones everywhere, Bi is more likely than not.
Continue readingWoo-hoo! In 30 minutes, 3pm Chicago time, I will start commenting on this post as I watch the film and you can comment along with me.
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