Happy Saturday! I get to sleep in, then do laundry, then go over to my friend-with-a-baby’s house and watch a movie with her and Baby, and then come home and go to bed early so I will be ready to lead a really tricky meeting on Sunday (I get to lead an open conversation about race between 5 white people, and then break the news I am leaving the committee because I am donezo)
Continue readingI love FanFic from the comments! Partly because it is always more fun when it is written as a collaboration, partly because it means I know at least one person will be interested in reading it. Although really, you should all read it. Not all my FanFics are good, but this is a really really good one.
Continue readingI both very much enjoy this movie, and also think it is one of the better movies of recent times. And I hope some of you feel the same way and are excited about this review!
Continue readingShoot, I got behind on announcements again! I’ve got to delegate one of you to warn me when I do that. Anyway, I picked a really short one so there is a chance you can still watch it before Sunday.
Continue readingNo movie review this week, but to make up for it, a review of the non-movie thing I did. My parents took me to see the Nutcracker! It was weird, there was no popcorn in the lobby and only a few desis and no trailers. What is this live theater MADNESS????
Continue readingAnother fun game for us! And more challenging than you think, because I am not matching within the same photo. See how you do!
Continue readingTRIGGER WARNING. This film has the most accurate evocation of rape I have seen in, like, ever. Not dramatic or exciting, just painful and miserable and shameful. And done by your own intimate partner. So, don’t watch it if you can’t get past that. But DO watch it if you want to see a hopeful consideration of how someone can survive such an experience. And either way, READ THE SPOILERS. In this case, they won’t ruin the movie for you, and they will give you a lot to think and talk about.
Continue readingI need a break from work, so let me do something light for a bit. Even though I should really be working on my Akaash Vani review for tomorrow, but that is definitely not light.
Continue readingThis is NOT “Ten Feminist Films”, because that’s a wee bit subjective. And it’s also NOT “Top Ten”, because that’s a way bit subjective. Instead, these are just ten films that bring up interesting discussions around gender. If you ever want to have a real downer of a movie night, you can show these and then make people discuss. Feel free to add on your own options both for films and discussion questions in the comments!!
I put these questions in the “Wednesday Watching” post earlier, but they were both really good and deserve their own post. Plus, I think people got distracted and missed them in Wednesday Watching. So a second chance!
Continue readingI already did Karna, now here is the other main character of the Mahabharat who is not part of the Pandava 5 brothers, Krishna.
At least Shahrukh didn’t wait until just after I went to sleep, he released this while I was well into REM. So I don’t feel TOO badly about missing it the exact moment it came out.
Happy Wednesday! Halfway through the week, I can’t WAIT for it to be done. It’s just one of those weeks. And there’s no new movie on Friday so I can have a whooooole evening to myself.
This is a game suggestion from my sister, and I promised to give her credit, so here it is!!!! Credit!!!! Now that Nick-PC have broken the India-America celebrities bar, who else would we put together, were we to control the universe?
Sorry, the connection was really really fuzzy, so the first bit is very choppy. But then it gets better.
Happy news round-up day! I mostly just want to talk about Prenaa Arora, because I love talking about her. And I want you all’s (y’all’s? y’alls?) opinion on it. But there’s also another fun “Manikarnika is a disaster from which none of us can escape” quote from set, and a “oh Karan, don’t even pretend this isn’t nepotism” story about Janhvi.
Am I the only one who kept thinking about the Dubrovnic section during the Ambani wedding coverage? Surely not, right? That kind of panicked “you have to like me! Don’t get mad at me!” feeling of the star “Aryan Khanna” in the face of the uberrich?
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Good morning! I did not have the healthiest best weekend (binged Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, drank a whole bottle of sparkling grape juice, made myself a cake) and work is a bit of a shock to the system today. So, distract me! Ask me questions!
What an interesting episode!!!! Exactly what we have been asking for, Karan breaking out of the usual circuit of guests and being open to new topics and new considerations. Also, yes, a lot about Salman and Shahrukh, but from a different angle than usual.
WARNING! This is a freakishly long review!!!! It’s a combination of the no spoiler and spoiler reviews I originally posted, and also I got very excited about the spoiler review and it was already super long even before I combined the two. So if you loved loved loved this movie, enjoy! And if you just love over-analysis, enjoy! And if neither of those things are true, skip!
I forgot about this, Patricia Merry and I wrote a Darr sequel in the comments ages back. Doesn’t seem fair to post the one MKP wrote with me and skip the other one.
It’s Christmas Eve, I will give you an early present: Shahrukh fanfic, because it’s the only kind anyone reads/wants. And Christmas themed, Sexy Angel Shahrukh! Sexy Sacrificial Family Man Angel Shahrukh!
Week 4! My goodness time goes fast. And you get to see the card from week 3! Which was a bit silly, because I was in a silly mood.
OH THIS MOVIE!!!!!! Mad me so angry at how they ended it! But I only got angry because I cared, the rest of the film was good enough to make me care. If you want to know what happens and why I am angry, you can read the rest of the review. If you want to go in fresh, you can read the No Spoilers review.
This is a hard review to write, because I don’t want to spoil the movie, but then on the other hand I need to be give you a clue of what kind of a film it will be so you can make an informed decision about whether or not to watch it. I guess I will just say that I really liked the opening and the middle, but the ending did not work for me AT ALL. So if you are able to enjoy a movie in pieces, can separate out sections, you will enjoy it a lot. But if you can’t block out bits and pieces, (like me), then the bitter ugly bit is going to end up ruining the rest of it. So, BE AWARE!
