Or I suppose you could NOT celebrate your birthday with an internet watchalong with a bunch of strangers, that’s okay too. But you can still pick the movie! And then just swing back and read all our comments later.
Continue readingKishoreda! I don’t have a super good source for his life, so I am sure I am going to miss things, but I want to do a 101 anyway because he is such a memorable figure that those of you who are new to Hindi film should have some sense of him. I kind of covered a lot of this in other posts, but I don’t think I have given Kishore his on post before.
Continue readingSocial Media! The DCIB version, where it’s all about cute pets and birthday wishes and Amitabh being a funny old man.
Continue readingNot gonna right a real post today because my head is exploding with pain, as I will explain below. But I do kind of want to crowdsource response to this situation.
Read moreFeeling the need to inject a little more happiness into our “Happiness Place”! So, anything from anywhere that makes you feel good about the world when you watch it. That genre of “look, it’s nice people doing nice thing because the world is good” show that is total pandering to the audience, but also a nice corrective to all the “people are trash” messages we get in other shows.
Continue readingHappy Monday! I had a terrible horrible no good migraine most of the day yesterday (thus my poor response rate on comments). I’m still feeling slightly headachey, but better, just in time to go to work. Why do you get sick on weekends? Why is the universe so cruel?
Continue readingHave you been craving romance in your films? Surprisingly, you may be able to find it here! A little bit dark and less fantasy than usual, but still here. If that intrigues you, go watch the movie and then come back here and tell me how wrong/right I was.
Continue readingI liked this movie more than I thought I would! I was all set for dark-dark-dark, and then surprise! Character development! For once, our hero isn’t just perfect from the start. Also, really surprising developments all through, which means this review will be kind of short because I have to save the good stuff for the SPOILER review.
Continue readingHappy Friendship Day! According to the made up holiday calendars by which florists live their lives and therefore just sent me an email alerting me!
Continue readingThank you Kirre for keeping an eye on this and alerting me! Such nice news to wake up to. Well, nice/not nice.
Continue readingLook at that! One year and a day ago, I was on the phone with my sister watching a movie together and timing contractions. And now we’ve got this kid with a million teeth in his mouth and opinions about beets.
Continue readingOh boy! A good post for me to write while I am feeling like a bit of a Grumpy Gus. If I try really hard, I might be able to come up with 3 directors I truly dislike. Maybe even 4!
Read moreHappy Saturday! My flingin’ flangin’ foot is hurting and I can’t sleep at night and all I want to do is lie in bed and watch sitcoms and drift in and out of consciousness. So I’m gonna do that while you all talk to each other.
Continue readingThis is only a small part of the movie, but it is a big part of my reaction to the movie, if that makes sense. I didn’t want to have it overwhelm the review and be unfair to the film as a whole, so I am isolating the discussion all by itself over here.
Continue readingWell, this was a dull movie. And historically inaccurate, mostly in your usual gender normative/casteism/classism way. But also a really WEIRD homophobic thing. Just like, SO ODD. So odd that I am going to give it it’s own post for us to discuss, so look forward to that! (homosexuality post up now, go here to learn more about and discuss that aspect)
Continue readingYaaaay, Shahrukh! And Don 2! And Friday WatchAlong, this is the best of all possible things!
Continue readingWell, this is a BORING movie! At least ridiculous Mahanati had some nice crazy melodrama in it, and ridiculous Padman had the fun invented Sonam Kapoor character, and ridiculous Rustom had uniforms. This is bad BAD history, bad BAD filmmaking, and also DULL. Blech. I’ll put it this way, only watch it if you enjoy Vidya so much you would be happy seeing her recite the phone book. Because this script is only slightly more exciting than that. Oh wait, I always like to be positive, so I should have something else to add…it’s better than Mission Mangal?
Continue readingNot Indian film related really, but a humanity related post, and a Margaret related post, so I am going to put it up and force you to learn things.
Continue readingI can’t believe we haven’t had this post before! It’s, like, film geek discussion 101! Oh well, better late than never.
Continue readingWoot, Friday WatchAlong! I may still spend all day flat on my back with my foot elevated above my head, but at least Friday WatchAlong is still happening, life is not totally abnormal.
Continue readingI’m doing it, I’m reviewing that Indian movie that isn’t technically an Indian movie! Which means I am moving outside my area of expertise and can’t give the same level of analysis and context and stuff as usual. Or not the same way as usual?
Continue readingIn case you are interested, I have a toe update! And of course you are interested, my toe is fascinating.
Continue readingIMPORTANT RULE: on this post, you CANNOT discuss anything related to Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. I will edit any comment that includes details related to that tragedy. That is still in process, there are no clear answers to anything, it is not a valid example in a debate. But you can talk about absolutely anything else, including personal experiences. Suicide is a good thing for people to talk about, I think. It removes the shame from it, and some of the power.
Continue readingInternet things! Including a broad definition to mean also “the video my co-worker sent of her kitten sneezing”.
Continue readingYaaaaaaaay, Friday Watchalong!!!!!!!! It’s like I am doing something, but I don’t have to get out of bed!
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