Okay, I gave in and watched Chori Chori for Filmikudhi’s birthday/Mom-day celebration. So now, just to be fair, I will agree to watch Parugu for Genevie’s Mom-day celebrations. I’m only free for two more watchalongs before the holidays, so decision time! Genevieve! Parugu this weekend or next weekend?
Continue readingHappy Tuesday!!! Yesterday I went straight from work to post office errands to dinner to bed, so no blog post. But today, extra long work day so loads of time to write!
Continue readingHappy last Christmas Give Away of November!!!! And filmikudhi, totally unshockingly, wins for her many MANY comments last week on her birthday choice of Chori Chori.
Continue readingHappy Thanksgiving in America. I am hanging out at my parents’ house with Albie waiting for the Turkey to cook and listening to family phone calls coming in from folks. And it all just makes me super grateful for YOU!
Continue readingHappy day before the day before the CHRISTMAS SEASON STARTS!!!! I put up a tree last weekend and have been listening to Christmas music, but I haven’t switched to my All Christmas Clothing option yet, that’s waiting for after Thanksgiving.
Continue readingNaina alerted me to this (thank you Naina!) and I am excited. We get a glimpse of the SRK-Taapsee chemistry, and some really interesting visuals.
Continue readingHappy Tuesday! This work week is going to be short but horrible for me, thus the delayed Monday post. It’s a holiday week in America so a third of my staff are out, and apparently this year all of our clients decided “instead of taking it easy because it’s a short week, I am going to try to squeeze 5 days of work into 3 days”. I’m just cranking through the work day as best I can, and then debraining with Great British Bake Off in the evening. Americans are the WORST! Why can’t we just enjoy our holiday weeks?
Continue readingHappy Second week of Christmas Giveaway!!!! I am sharing a picture of Naina’s card, but DON’T WORRY, it’s no spoilers because there is a secret fun thing on the back, and I also threw in a ton of left over cards from past years/holidays. Naina will have lots to enjoy!
Continue readingI’ve downloaded from einthusan, we’ll see if that works better than streaming. But I will probably still be complaining because it is all weird.
Continue readingFine! I’ll watch Chori Chori! And I bet I will end up liking it too, just to make me even more angry. I hate it when people tell me to do things and I finally do them and I end up liking them. Sunday 7am, in honor of Filmikudhi’s birthday, and the anniversary of her son Mr. Toddles birth.
Continue readingYou know that human thing where the more someone says “you absolutely MUST watch this” the less you want to watch it? Tragically, after 5 years of FilmiKudhi demanding I watch Chori Chori, I would now rather rip my fingernails out by the roots than give in. See also, Genevieve’s epic struggle to get me to watch the new Emma (which I did eventually watch, and love, but it was a battle of wills). Anyway, this weekend we can watch Chori Chori for FilmiKudhi, or I can continue to be an immature brat and we can watch anything else!
Continue readingOh boy, a thinky post! About a topic on which I have NO personal experience! Which means I will be trying to articulate what I observed, but also trying NOT to offer judgement or advice because people without kids who judge people with kids are the Worst People.
Continue readingYaaaaaaaaaaaay! Giveaway week 1!!!! For Sunday the 5th through Saturday the 11, Naina made 33 comments! Remember, no watchalong last week so it was a whole different playing field.
Continue readingWoot, Jawan WatchAlong! For DIWALI!!!! I’ve ordered my coffee, I’ve fed the dog, I am ready to CELEBRATE.
Continue readingI’ve sat with this movie for a bit, and I think it is more like Tiger 1 than I gave it credit for, in that it is a relationship story wrapped up in an action movie. Think of it as the Indian “Before Sunrise” series! With explosions.
Continue readingYaaaaaaaaaaaay! It wasn’t like Tiger 2! I really really hated Tiger 2! It also wasn’t exactly like Tiger 1, but it was similarly light and love filled instead of dark and fear filled (blech Tiger 2! Blech! And you are allow to disagree with my opinion).
Continue readingThe return of a conquering hero? With lots of lights and spectacle? I think that’s Jawan! Totally holiday appropriate. Also, I really wanted to do All That Heaven Allows but it is only available on the Criterion Collection Streaming Service and I didn’t want to force y’all to do that.
Continue readingThis is last minute so I totally get it if no one is available! But I hope some people still are, and are interested in at least one of these movies.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! This week is just crawling along for me, maybe because I am so excited for the weekend and seeing a big new movie? Or maybe because it is yucky outside and is dark by 4:30 now.
Continue readingHappy Monday!!! And happy start of the glorious DCIB Christmas GiveAway season! Oh, and happy week of Diwali/Tiger 3! I’m trying to coordinate my group and get tickets now, because the sooner the better!
Continue readingI love it when a film is good both in streaming and off streaming. Not just good, but encouraging you to see it a different way and find different things. I found something new watching Jawan streaming that I had missed in all 4 of my theatrical watches.
Continue readingShahrukh surprised us with the Jawan drop and now I have to make last minute watchalong decisions! I have a commitment midday Saturday and Sunday afternoon, so morning is best for me. But I’m hoping we can make it work because Jawan is soooooooooo good.
Continue readingWell, I had a lovely lowkey Shahrukh birthday! Still not my best one ever, which was totally unplanned. I was at a friend’s small relaxed birthday party and I realized it was coming up on midnight on November 1, so we put a candle back in the birthday cake leftovers and sang Happy birthday to Shahrukh at exactly midnight. Anyway, tonight was nice too! It’s always nice to spend time with Shahrukh.
Continue readingCards on the table, I always prefer live. Seeing him live was literally life changing, and even those fuzzy youtube videos we get of performances have a certain magic that I just don’t feel on screen.
Continue readingI have to actually do work-work today (boooooooo!) so there is no way I can keep up with all the birthday stuff coming out. I’ll hit the highlights in this post and trust y’all to keep it going in the comments!
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