Woot! Keeping up the book club train! It’s cold and snowy, it’s book season. And this is another short fun one with, best of all, a large specific list of characters that it would be super fun to recast in Indian film. Oh, and a nice little romance.
Continue readingHappy Monday! I did NOT get enough sleep last night, be warned! I was up to late partying at my parents, and then I forgot I had to go to work early to cover for a co-worker today, blurgh.
Continue readingOh boy, a thinky post! Which is also connected to tomorrow’s DCIB Book Club pick. Yaaaaay!
Continue readingWoot! Laura!!!! We finally get to talk about it!!!! I hope you all read the book, but even if you only saw the movie (although you really should read the book), I guess you can still join the discussion 🙂
Continue readingWell, this is a frustrating combo. A great movie stuffed inside a limp dull modern wrapping. If you have to watch it, it’s a definite start at the interval and skip the first have kind of film.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I am so glad to have my nice warm house. I woke up early and did our watchalong, than ran a bunch of errands, then walked the dog, and then was SO COLD. It’s not super super cold here, just around 7 degrees Fahrenheit, which means it’s warm enough that if I dress for it I don’t realize how cold I am. Until I come home and go “wow, I was outside way too long! I am so cold!”
Continue readingHappy Saturday! And Happy Jackie Birthday Week! I have been talked into doing an ACTUAL Jackie movie, not just one of his modern ones where he has a little father role and nothing else.
Continue readingSee, the problem with Classic Jackie is that he is REALLY hard to find. Because, I think, Subhash Ghai is a gross rapist and therefore no one wants to work with him and his films aren’t streaming anywhere legally. Good news though, a NON Ghai Jackie film just hit Netflix! Jackie, Sunny, Deepti Naval, and Manisha Koirala. It must be good, right? Even if I have never seen/hear of it?
Continue readingTwo of these are really silly, and two are semi-not silly. Personally, I prefer the silly, but if you want to look at tweets with actual content, I have that also.
Continue readingIt’s Jackie’s Birthday Week! So we need to watch a Jackie movie on Saturday morning, right? And there are a handful I have considered that we have never watched together. And probably others out there I don’t even know about.
Continue readingOh boy, Spoiler section! For everyone else who’s already seen the movie like me and has Thoughts!
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! And Happy Republic Day! Which is also, coincidentally, my Mom’s Mom’s birthday. If she weren’t dead, she would be 103 today. But, she would also probably be dead. 103 is very VERY old. She lived to 95 as it is. India, on the other hand, is only 72 years old.
Continue readingIf you like crazy over the top amoral Telugu movies, this is for you! Personally, I DO like those movies. I’ll write a whole review below, and you should read it if you’ve never tried Telugu action before, but if you have, and you know what I mean by “amoral” and you will know if you enjoy it. Just go ahead and watch! Skip this review!
Continue readingFinally got around to watching trailers! And I discovered the biggest difference between the two movies, I can spell “Badhai Do” without thinking, I can’t spell “Gehraiyaan” for the life of me. Have to search for “new Deepika movie” instead.
Continue readingHappy Monday!!! And it’s nobody’s birthday today, so far as I can tell, so to differentiate it from all the other Mondays I am celebrating “peanut butter day”.
Continue readingUPDATE: I messed up! This discussion is supposed to be next week. But I’m not going to pull the post, you can read it now to have things to think about as you read the book. And I will repost it next week.
Continue readingHi! Sorry! Forgot to write this post last night so hurrying it out before the actual start time.
Continue readingI just got this ticket alert, and in Normal Times I would really REALLY want to do it. Funky old Chicago theater that’s like ten minutes from my new house, fun performers, why not? But is it worth risking Pandemic?
Continue readingYou can do write ins on this one! There are female characters on our Official List who I am not suggesting. So if you wanna pick, say, Sai Pallavi in Love Story, go for it! And try to convince everyone else to agree with you by presenting arguments!
Continue readingMy sister emailed me yesterday to tell me that Yvette Mimieux died. She was an actress in Hollywood of the 1960s who had a few notable roles but not much else. What was special about her was a certain kind of broken fragility she brought onscreen. A kind of fragility that inspires love and protection in other women around her, rather than in “male saviors”. Especially in what are, to me, her most memorable roles: Where the Boys Are and Light in the Piazza.
Continue readingOh boy! I’m finally going to watch Pushpa! Thanks to all of you giving me moral support so I can make it through a whole 3 hours of close attention to a film.
Continue readingLet’s say that Hindi films are all horrible, and the crossover hits from the southern industries are hits because they are bringing in things we are missing. And let’s say I am correct in the elements I picked out for these three. Which of these elements/movies brought something you have most been missing?
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! I did my church movie discussion group last night, and I have my other movie discussion group tomorrow night, I’m excited! Get to watch Passing and a Hitchcock this week.
Continue readingThis was our watchalong movie last week, but I know not everyone got to join. And anyway, it’s fun writing reviews! So here is my review.
Continue readingHappy Monday! Many people in America are off work today, but I am not. I am enjoying work though! We have a new employee starting, so we are all sharing photos of our pets with her.
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