Blah blah, history, classism, colonialisms inevitable poisoning of the existing social structure. Forget all that, let’s talk about what’s REALLY important: is Prithviraj hot in this or WHAT?
Continue readingWhat fun! Rani week! I’ll throw together a 101 on her, and post all my old reviews, and still have loads of time for Christmas shopping and parties and stuff. (by the way, these aren’t set in stone. If there is a movie you would like to add or remove, say it in the comments, I can shift things)
Continue readingOkay, sharpen your claws, build up the knives of resentment, stoke the fires of your class/gender anger, and let us focus all of that on the one perfect representation of every man who ever tried to tell you his pain was more important than yours, that his success is a tribute to talent and not privilege, that if we disagree with him it is just because we don’t have the depth to understand his thoughts. Take down Ranbir, and we can take down every patronizing boss, every bad boyfriend, every dumb colleague promoted over you, every person who looks at the world and only sees a mirror, not a window. Yes, our Ranbir Hate, in one great cleansing burst, will Save the World.
Continue readingI am going to do my best to attempt a starting point of class and film in India. Not caste, I’m not even touching caste, just class. And a little bit Kangana too, but again just an attempt at a start with her.
Continue readingThis is not a complete accurate every variable accounted for post, but it is a starting point for an actual fact based discussion of how most young stars get their start in Hindi film. And we’ve been talking about that a lot lately, so I thought I should repost it.
Continue readingYou know how during SRK month I have a warning that we are in a place of SRK love not hate? I think I have to put an opposite warning on this post, we are in a place of Ranbir hate not like/love/or tolerate.
Continue readingThank you FilmiKudhi for the idea! I suspect/hope this will turn into a heated discussion simply because when we have had similar debates in the comments, it has always gotten heated. So, prepare to battle!
Continue readingWe were just talking on the Jodha-Akbar post how that movie looks better and better as the years go by and inferior films are released. The same is true, but much more so, about this movie.
Continue readingMerry 21 days to Christmas! As you may have guessed from my lovely new jewelry displayed in this mornings post, I am going a tad overboard. Or, as I think of it, just the right amount of board. Christmas is a wonderful time! It should take over your life and space and clothes in every way! And Dog.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! I hate post-holiday weeks, it’s so much harder to get motivated to go in to work every day, plus there is so much more work because we had a holiday the week before. Anyway, Wednesday! Just today, and Thursday, and Friday, and then I am FREE. For two days.
Continue readingMerry Christmas Angie! And Merry Christmas to all of us, because while I find Arjun unremarkable as an actor, as a person I find him surprisingly inspiring and, a strange word to use for a movie actor, but maybe a little bit Noble?
Continue readingI am having fun doing original takes on the hot young things, but my mind is blank when I try to think of what hot young thing to tackle next.
Continue readingThis post isn’t as long as I remembered, but it is probably nice to have a little short post for you all to read instead of the overwhelmingly long ones. After all, the movie is long enough without the post making it even longer.
Continue readingInteresting combo today! 2 people that I am fonder of than I should logically be, and I am guessing I am not alone?
Continue readingPart 1 didn’t get as many comments as I expected, but it did get decent views, so I am moving on!
Continue readingYou know why I don’t like doing 101s on people in the middle of their careers? First, because people feel more passionate about it and are likely to disagree with me and I hate it when people disagree with me. And second, because it is a continuing story and things that may happen in the future will affect the accuracy of what I say here. So please keep that in mind, disagree respectfully and correct me respectfully, and forgive me if you come back to this post 2 years from now and it is no longer correct.
Continue readingI just wrote this review and posted it less than 2 months ago, but in case you missed it, here it is again!
Continue readingEvery once in a while the war drums start beating about how item songs are the cause of all the bad things that happen to women in India, and it always bothers me, because “item songs” ends up including a whole range of songs that are completely different in meaning. Oh, and this is kind of a partner with this post that goes into what objectification means, and this post that talks about male and female gaze)
Continue readingHappy Monday! After 4 days off in a row, it is less hard than I thought to go back to work. Partly because it was 4 packed busy days so work almost seems like a break.
Continue readingThese are all just brilliant, and work so much better as period pieces than they did as modern day. Truly, I can’t even pick a favorite among them! Can you?
Continue readingI think this film, my film, would be far far better. The Asoka we got just touched the surface of his life, this movie would really dig in to the meat of it.
Continue readingHappy start of the Christmas season! It is now the first Sunday of Advent, AND after Thanksgiving. So both the American shopping calendar, and the Christian calendar, say I can put up my Christmas trees.
Continue readingThis is not a great movie. Or even a good movie. But it’s got silly hats, and alligator wrestling, and do we really need more than that from a history film?
Continue readingWell, I put off writing this post as long as possible. Because this movie just has so much that goes into it, it’s hard to even figure out where to start.
Continue readingWeek 4 already! My my. And we are also on the first Sunday of Advent. Which is obviously far less important than it being week 4 of the DCIB Christmas give away. And congrats to Courtney!!! You have made good time management and life decisions, and this is your reward.
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