So, TCM (greatest channel EVER) is in the middle of a Garbo fest and I caught a double bill on Friday and it inspired me. Get ready for very VERY specific narrowcasting fanfics. You know, for all those hardcore Garbo/Indian film fans. There must be more of them than just me and Maria Gill, right?
Continue readingTweetalong reminder! Join in with the hashtags #ELKDTAL #DCIB, make sure to use both of them in each tweet or we won’t see it. Movie starts in exactly 24 hours from when this post is published. So you don’t have to figure out time zones, whenever this post popped up for you, that time tomorrow. Set up your twitter to search and update for the hashtags #ELKDTAL and #DCIB and when you tweet in, make sure to use both hashtags so we can see your comments.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! No new movies to watch this weekend, so I have all kinds of free time to do all kinds of errands. Fun fun!
Continue readingThis sounds really egotistical, but I have the most amazing hair you will ever see in your life. Like I said, egotistical. But actually, it’s just saying a fact. It’s amazing. I love going in for my annual trim, because everyone takes photos and applauds and it is generally good for the ego. Anyway, I am getting my semi-annual cut tonight and it seemed like a good theme for a TGIF post, women with awesome hair.
Continue readingWoo-hoo, Shahrukh’s PR team! You deserve congrats, champagne, and a nice long vacation. Shahrukh got another honorary degree and the coverage has been spun just right. It’s like a perfectly tailored suit, so well done as to be invisible and just allow the man within it to shine.
Continue readingNext Thursday, Vettai! It’s on Netflix now, it has Maddy in cuddly teddy bear mode dressed in his little police uniform, it’s got a couple of really great songs, the heroines are fun and strong, and there’s also Arya who I am supposed to find the sexy dangerous hot hero, but I don’t, because Maddy is there.
Continue readingSuch a disturbing movie. Like, not sure if I can go to sleep tonight kind of disturbing. Very disturbing. But also very high quality.
Continue readingTweetalong reminder! Join in with the hashtags #ELKDTAL #DCIB, make sure to use both of them in each tweet or we won’t see it. Movie starts at 11am Chicago time (4pm Greenwich Mean Time) on 4/7.
Continue readingMore shameless pandering/laziness! Assuming we all vaguely know the Marvel characters as they are presented in the film universe, I think we can generally recast them.
Continue readingI was all set for people to get angry with me for my Hindi Film 101 on class and Kangana, and nothing. And not really any comments on my Super Deluxe review either (if someone wants to link back to it from the Bardwaj review page as an example of a review that is critical of the film, that would be great). Anyway, when the comments drop down, so does my ability to think abstractly and intelligently and I end up putting up stupid posts like this in an attempt to get a response from the void.
Continue readingThis is a reposted post from a couple years ago, but it seems appropriate to remember her on her birth anniversary. Poor Parveen Babi, and also brave smart Parveen.
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 readingI don’t have to go to church for the first time in AGES on Sunday. And, equally importantly, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga is ON NETFLIX!!!!!!!!! So I am going to do a last minute tweetalong/ReRun review. It is so good, I won’t mind rewatching it all by myself if I have to. But I am hoping some of you will join in because that is what makes the Tweetalong fun. Let’s all skip church together!
Continue readingI am giving lots of notice for this one because it is a Very Important Movie and I want as many people as possible to watch it, especially before Kalank releases. It’s a movie that honestly deals with the trauma of Partition, a time when there were no easy answers for anything. Fun times! Watch it on youtube before next Friday, 4/12.
Continue readingWell, it’s pretty much what we thought. I think. No subtitles, because Dharma hates us. And then they will magically appear in like 3 hours. WHY DO THEY DO THIS???? Oh, and I actually did 5 minutes of research and confirmed that it is NOT based on What the Body Remembers any more than Paa was based on Benjamin Buttons (yes, that was a story for a while too).
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! This is my first full week of work since I returned from vacation and I DON’T LIKE IT. 5 days in a row is too many days. Especially when I no longer have a vacation to look forward to. Oh well, halfway done now. At least, halfway done as of noon today.
Continue readingOh dear. I know this is a movie that a lot of you really like. And I’m sorry, but I just don’t. So either you will read this review and be convinced and then I will have taken something pleasurable away from your life. Or you will read this review and disagree with me, and then we will be in a fight, and I don’t like that either. There’s really no way to win here, and I hate it! Well, I suppose I could lie and only say nice things about the movie, but that’s never gonna happen. I have to be honest and mean and make you unhappy. Shoot. Just, don’t read the review. Really, don’t, not if you love this movie and it will make you unhappy to read someone who doesn’t.
Continue readingWell, I yelled about Super Deluxe yesterday, today I yelled about news stories and will be yelling about Shaandar later. But this should be a cheery, happy place! Let’s look at the thing that cheer me up and don’t make me grumpy, Albie Dog! Choose joy!
Continue readingI just put up a grumpy post about the trailer release, but that didn’t actually talk about the trailer itself. So now you get a short little post just about the trailer.
Continue readingUse your HEADS people!!!!!! Oh my gosh, twitter and rumors and stuff are flying about things that ONE SECOND of logical intelligent thought would show you are not real things. And also, I should maybe not read the news before having my coffee, because it just makes me too grumpy.
Continue readingIt’s only 42nd, so I am going to feel okay about completely forgetting to do anything this year and just throwing a post together last minute. It’s not like the 40th, when they got a post AND a card.
Continue readingI just spent a really long time writing a detailed review and summary of Super Deluxe, and now I am exhausted and I just want a fun post! So here is last year’s post on songs with trickster heroes.
Continue readingI’ve been informed that this movie is getting crazy buzz, like “best film of the decade” buzz. Huh. I just don’t see it. It’s good, but it also has major flaws. If you saw it and want some help following the plots, or if you aren’t able to see it but want to know what happens, you can read this review. If you want to go in without knowing what will happen, you can read my other review. Or I guess if you didn’t like this movie, you should also read this review and see if I can articulate what bothered you, if perhaps it is the same thing that bothered me.
Continue readingHappy Monday and Happy April Fool’s! I have no idea how to celebrate. I feel like I should put up a post like “Karan Johar Marries Anupam Kher” or “Alia Bhatt is Cast as Lead in Nehru Biopic”, but that would just be mean. I’ll probably just come up with some kind of songs post.
Continue readingThank you Filmikudhi for mentioning this book! It was a very good (and very quick) read. You can buy it for almost no money here. Really, check it out! Less than $2 and less than a 2 hour read.
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