Oh boy, parenting/baby talk! Which is either boring because you don’t have kids, or boring because you do have kids and spend all day talking like this.
Continue readingI am finally making you all watch Ohm Shanti Oshana!!!! HA! It’s only available for pay, but I don’t care, you will love it so much that money doesn’t matter.
Continue readingThe birthday festivities continue! After Viviek, now Shakti. I look forward to Popka complaining that this is not his best movie after all.
Continue readingViviek of course has turned into a whiny unpleasant political animal, but he had some really good roles in the early 2000s. So for his birthday, I will remember those.
Continue readingThis is just the happiest movie. And it sounds stupid when you try to describe it. Stupid, and kind of sad.
Continue readingI feel like the DCIB community is mostly made up of people with slightly off beat taste. So I suspect there will be some interesting answers to this question.
Continue readingIn my pre-Indian film life, I was a history major. And in my real life and deepest most important places, I am the granddaughter of two WWII vets. So I want to write this post. Especially because, coming to Indian film with this background, I am constantly stopped short by how WWII was experienced differently in India, especially related to Japan.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! I get to see my foot doctor again today, which always comes with the hope of Freedom. At this point, I have started thinking I will just be in foot recovery mode for the rest of my life, but he’s got to let me go free eventually, right?
Continue readingMy mind is a blank this week. Loads of birthdays (Sudeep!) and things, and yet I still can’t think what we should watch.
Continue readingIt’s Edgar Rice Burroughs birthday! He wrote the Tarzan books, which I love. And he is from Chicago, which makes him even better. And a distant connection was married to his great great grandson, who was completely boring and respectable and Old Money since the family kind of forgot all their wealth came from cheap dime novels after a few generations.
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