It’s Rachel’s birthday weekend, so we are doing a Pacific Time Friendly start time, AND we are finally watching KANK because Rachel is one of the other people besides me who finds it interesting and not hateful.
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TGIF: Hairstyle Appreciation Day!!!! Which of These Hairstyles Do You Appreciate More????
What a glorious holiday this is! No idea who created it or why, but yaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! Let’s look at wacky hair!
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong on SUNDAY!!!! At 10am Chicago Time!!!! What Should We Watch???
So exciting!!! A Sunday watchalong! We haven’t done that in a while, I think since my stationary vacation maybe?
Continue readingWhat Shahrukh Movie Should We Watch This Weekend? And Saturday or Sunday?
Time to decide!!! What are we watching this weekend to celebrate Rachel’s birthday??? Obviously SRK, but WHICH SRK????
Continue reading3 Important Things I Need Help With: Bahubali Memes, Lampshades, and Anal Glands
Yes, it is a whole variety of things with which I need help/advice/sympathy!!!! And I feel like, among the DCIB community, we should be able to solve ALL of them.
Continue readingRadhe Trailers! Well, This is a Salman Movie All Right
In the crazy world of 2021, isn’t it nice to have a safe familiar relaxing Bad Salman Movie? Isn’t that alone enough to celebrate? If it was actually good, I would be yet another upsetting change in the regular scheme of life.
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening to During April Showers?
Happy Wednesday!!! I am trying to psych myself up to doing more packing. It’s just so HARD. And I just want to do jigsaw puzzles and watch TV.
Continue readingChallenge! Can You Think of a 100% Happy, No Sad Bits At All, Indian Movie?
I have a friend who had a really sucky week so, for Friend Movie Night this week, I want to pick something that has really truly NOTHING sad in it. And it’s HARD!!!
Continue readingRACHEL! I Don’t Care That You Can’t Attend, It’s Your Birthday So You Have to Pick Our Movie This Week!
Was that title clear? Should I make it more creepily personal and specific in a way that makes this blog appear like a college friends email group and not like a Formal Public Film Analysis Site? Anyway, RACHEL!!!! It’s your BIRTHDAY!!!!! So you have to pick the movie even if you don’t attend.
Continue readingSister Group Announcement!!! Swades Watchalong on Friday through Team SRK USA!!!!!
Lovely Rachel is running an SRK fan group for all us lonely sad SRK fans!!!! And she has a delightful event this Friday I want to make sure y’all know about.
Continue readingFashion Discussion Post: What Is Your Favorite Fashion Era in Period Piece Films?
Ready to be non-Indian and superficial? This is a completely silly post idea, but let us share which historical period clothing is our favorite! In the historical film meaning, not like what they really wore when it was all smelly and stained and stuff. And I will switch to India for the 1960s and 1970s, because those clothes are AWESOME
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the Last Week of April?
Happy Monday!!! I am ready for a nice dull work day when all I have to do is work-work. This weekend I started thinking about packing up my apartment and it is TERRIFYING.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: In ONE Week, The Marvelous Land of Oz, in TWO Weeks Getting Rid of Bradley
Yaaaaaaay, BOOKS!!!!! This are both such light happy summery reads. Those of you who are stressed and overworked (so, almost all of you), these will be lovely easy distractions. Especially Bradley, believe me, you will get 10 pages in and be addicted.
Continue readingSilly Sunday: Help Me Cast An Aging Actress, Beautician, and Housewife for My Hot in Cleveland Remake!!!!
Again, NOT A GOOD SHOW!!!! Do not try watching this show and then go “Margaret, why did you tell me to watch this show?” I didn’t! But I happen to be enjoying it. And more importantly, the central 4 characters are GREAT character types to play with in imaginary casting.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: “The Soul of the Croupier”, 3 Great Female Characters, 1 Great Male Character, and Also Some Guy
Thank you Emily for the recommendation! This was the perfect little short story to read and enjoy and then think about who you would cast.
Continue readingAjeeb Daastaans Review (SPOILERS): Nothing Goes the Way You Expect it to Go
What a great concept for a short film collection! Take a story we think we know, and then turn it into something totally different just when we think we know what is happening.
Continue readingAjeeb Daastaans Review (No Spoilers): Do Not Think You Know Where These Movies Are Going
Well, this was a FASCINATING collection of short films! I highly highly recommend it. Except for the 2nd film which might have been the most interesting, but also has something happen in it that is so bad I suspect it will be triggering for some of you. I’ll SPOIL it at the end of this review so you can decide for yourself and be warned. Even if you can’t watch that movie, you can still watch the other 3!!!!
Continue readingEmma 2020 Review! You Can Live Without a Man, But You Can’t Live Without a Friend
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GENEVIEVE!!!! I got you just what you wanted, I watched Emma on Thursday and am reviewing it today. ENJOY!!!! (oh, and for other people, if you like gender issues and romance and pretty pretty pictures, you will enjoy this movie. It even has good songs!)
Continue readingSaturday WatchAlong: Dil Dhadakne Do! Starting at 7:30am! For Genevieve’s BIRTHDAY!!!
Happy birthday Genevieve!!!!!! And thank you for picking such a great movie! I look forward to a lively debate between me, who is sympathetic to Anil Kapoor, and everyone else, who hates him.
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Pack!
Happy Saturday!!!! I am in the first step of packing, which is “exclude all things that should not be packed”. I’ve done clothes, now on to books! Which of my books can I absolutely not live without and need to move with me to my parents?
Continue readingSaturday WatchAlong Reminder!!!! 7:30am Tomorrow, Dil Dhadakne Do!!!!
Yaaaaaay, Rich People Problems. So soothing. So less stressful than poor people problems. Also, yaaaaay! Genevieve’s birthday! So it’s her pick this week.
Continue readingWhat’s Happening in My Life This Week, Bugs and Other Things
Happy Friday! I watched a new movie on Wednesday, like a CHAMP, and reviewed it yesterday. And tonight I might watch another new movie (or not), but also I have fixed SO MUCH LIFE STUFF.
Continue readingRoohi Review (SPOILERS): The Superheroine Origin Story I Always Wanted and Never Knew It!!!!
Yaaaaaay, a SPOILERS review!!!! If you just don’t have the energy to watch this movie but are curious about it anyway. Or if you can’t do horror but want to know what it is like. Or if you have seen it and are DESPERATE to discuss. But if you like horror comedies with a feminist message, you can also save this as a special treat and NOT read this review.
Continue readingRoohi Review (No Spoilers): Not the Best Feminist Horror Comedy, But Not the Worst!
Isn’t it lovely that Feminist Horror Comedy is now an actual genre? Stree is of course the best of them, but Roohi is a not terrible addition.
Continue readingSaturday Morning WatchAlong: Dil Dhadakne Do FOR GENEVIEVE’S BIRTHDAY!!!!!
Happy Birthday Genevieve!!!! It’s the 24th, right? So your birthday is the same as Varun Dhawan AND my friend Dina. This is very exciting. It’s like how November 18th is my father’s birthday, my friend’s birthday, and Mickey Mouse’s birthday.
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