Trailers! Of varying interest to me, and to you as well. But we can still watch them all and talk about them.
Continue readingHappy Monday! I spent the weekend hiding from the rain and wishing I didn’t have to walk the dog.
Continue readingOh Abhay and Bobby! So cute, so charming, so heartthrob-y. And then, suddenly, not. Time is a cruel master.
Continue readingWhat a surprisingly good movie! There were still moments that could have been better, the ending dragged, etc. etc., but overall it is still a very good film. I can whole-heartedly recommend it.
Continue readingYou ready for a silly lazy idea? I’m gonna take a bunch of songs out of context and invent the movies they should belong in, because they don’t quite work in the movies they are in. Feel free to jump in with more ideas in the comments!
Continue readingDon’t worry about spoiling yourself. It’s a rom-com, it’s only gonna end one way. It’s not about the surprises, it’s about enjoying the journey. Read this review, don’t read it, I don’t care.
Continue readingHappy movie! Don’t watch if you don’t like rom-coms. Do like if you do watch rom-coms. Follow those simple rules, and the world will keep spinning.
Continue readingThey are an okay onscreen couple, although I still find them more like brother and sister than a romantic couple. However, they are really well-matched in songs! Both with moderate dancing ability but a lot of hard work and energy onscreen.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I had a wonderful party last night, 6 friends came over, 14 samosas were eaten, and one bowl of popcorn. And I stayed up way way too late and am sleeping in today.
Continue readingWhat a happy movie! What a fun happy movie! I had forgotten how good it was until I rewatched it, and it is really really good. One of those movies that had modest ambitions and accomplished them.
Continue readingA repost, but a fun one! Anyway, we all love rom-coms, right?
Continue readingRugby! It’s like football, but less safe! And, the uniforms have less padding so show off more of your body.
Continue readingWhen I am writing a review, I often branch off into Deep Thoughts inspired by the topic of the film. They are related to the film and belong in the review, but they are also above and beyond the film. Since my last two reviews have gotten soooooooooooo few views (Uyare and Nenu Naa Rakshisi), and I put a lot of work into those big thinky parts of them, I decided to do something a little different and pull out those sections from the reviews and give a new post to discuss just them. Oh, and also the section of my Rockstar review which was similarly abstract.
Continue readingA mixed bag of movies for next week! A Malayalam film I haven’t seen and will probably admire, a Telugu film I have seen and greatly enjoyed which is now on Prime and you should check it out, my least favorite film of all time, and a movie I enjoyed more than expected which also just hit streaming.
Continue readingAs I said when I announced this review, I can’t truly recommend this film as one for you to watch. It is odd and poorly put together. But it had some interesting ideas so I want to talk about it for a bit, even if no one watched it. Oh, and you can read the first non-spoiler half if you want an interesting discussion of film craftsmanship (who wouldn’t?).
Continue readingI was going to do something like translating famous Shahrukh lines of dialogue into pirate talk, but that seemed hard. So instead, let us just consider the many kinds of pirates and which kind Shahrukh would be, were he to be a pirate.
Continue readingThis is a variation on a previous post, but in that case I was leaving it open to all Shahrukh roles. Now I am limiting it to just the ones where he actually played a husband so we have a clear comparison. And also to help alert you all to this post from late last night where I discussed Shahrukh as a husband on film.
Continue readingI have a cute photo and a less cute story, so you can hear one and then be rewarded with the other. Also, Dogs > Babies.
Continue readingWell, this was an uneven movie! As a movie as a whole, it wasn’t perfect. But there were certain sections that were perfect. And, you know, trigger warning for people who are worn out dealing with gender issues. You can read the review and have a helpful supportive discussion here, but maybe don’t force yourself to watch the movie? Put it in the Article 15 pile.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! Halfway through a weird week. Things are super slow at work right now, which means the work days pass veeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly. I know it shouldn’t work that way, but it does, the busy weeks go by a lot faster.
Continue readingLet’s see if I can manage a thinky post after two days of light non-thinky posts. Fingers crossed!
Continue readingReady for a shallow shallow post? Of the few times Shahrukh has appeared onscreen in uniform, which is the best uniform?
Continue readingSilly post, but I’m running late this morning and I just wanted to throw up something silly. Mostly this is a recommendation post for three really great American family films that happen to revolve around homosexuality. One of my earliest memories is my mother and the video store clerk bonding over how ridiculous it is that The Birdcage is rated “R” since it is one of the most loving and warm family films to ever come out of Hollywood. Along with The Birdcage, you should also watch Kissing Jessica Stein and In and Out because they are all wonderful and loving and warm family movies. And then we can all recast them for India.
Continue readingYou should all be very proud of me, I managed to finish my library book on kindle before midnight tonight when the library will magically take it away. And now it is too late for me to think through a serious “real’ blog post, so you will have to be happy with a non-real one.
Continue readingI feel this is a completely appropriate topic, because hair is a created art form (your stylist takes what you have and changes it), so we can rank his hair as much as we might rank his performances or his clothing styles. Right? It’s not unfair objectification? Oh well, maybe it is, but it’s fun!
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