This is just a starting point, there are so many films to watch and so many things to learn, I look forward to more suggestions in the comments.
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Tag Archives: Malayalam
Happy Birthday Mohanlal! My Favorite Movie of Yours, Namukku Parkkan Munthirithoppukal
This is such a lovely movie. Poor quality, the only copy available seems to be a bit deteriorated. But you can still feel the reality of the beauty of the world around them. And most of all, the story is so beautiful, hope and love over terrible damage.
Continue readingHindi Film 101: For Sai Pallavi’s Birthday, a Case Study of a Southern Heroine
I find the differences in how heroines start between industries FASCINATING. I can’t possibly cover every possible variation, but I can use Sai Pallavi as a jumping off point to talk about how it can sometimes happen.
Continue readingVarane Avashyamund Review: Groom Wanted, but Not Really Needed
What a nice movie! A bit rambly and confusing, even more than usual for Malayalam films, but the characters are so interesting and nice that it keeps me going, and everyone ends in a good place.
Continue readingIt’s Trisha’s Birthday! Watch Her Malayalam Movie, Hey Jude With Nivin Pauly!
Love Nivin, love Trisha, okay with The Beatles, and yet I don’t love-love this movie. It’s a good movie with a nice ending, you should watch it, it’s just not my favorite somehow.
Continue readingHappy Birthday Angie! Your Third Present, a Review of Style
I did it! I watched Style! Angie’s favorite Big Dumb Fun Hunks movie! And it is, as promised, a Big Dumb Fun Hunks movie. Also, there’s cars.
Continue readingBad Girls Month: 22 Female Kottayam, the Best and Baddest Malayalam Bad Girl
I know this is a really hard movie to find, but I encourage you to do whatever it takes to find it!
Continue readingValentine’s Week of Sex: Namukku Parkkan Munthirithoppukal
This is a movie that is all about sex, without actually having a sex scene. Sex fantasies, sex experimentation, and sexual violence (nothing explicitly shown, but discussed and treated seriously by the plot). And it is also a movie about love and redemption and freedom. It’s just lovely.
Continue readingTwo Crowdsource Requests: Movies for BollywoodNewbie to Watch on Her Plane Trip, and Romances for Valentine’s Week
These are equally important questions and I don’t want you to be lazy and just do one or the other! So if you comment, you have to give at least one idea for BOTH! So it can be like 10 movies for BollywoodNewbie, and only 1 for Valentine’s, or vice versa, but at least try to cover both.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Was the Best non-Hindi Movie You Saw in 2019? Or in the 2010s?
As I am sure you have noticed, my posts tend to be Hindi focused. Because that’s where I know stuff, like being able to scroll through a list of films and remember which ones had really shockingly bad wigs. But that doesn’t mean I don’t care about other places! I just don’t know enough to do an awards post. I’ll do a discussion post instead, and you can all educate me.
Continue readingWednesday Malayalam: Allu Ramendran, Perfectly Pleasant Police Picture
Well, this was a sunny pleasant film. Not great, but not terrible. Very Malayalam. Oh, and pretty also, can’t beat those Kerala village settings!
Continue readingWednesday Malayalam: Virus, Collective Action for Collective Problems
Wooo, socialism! And more importantly, wooo-multi-starrer-style-films-to-tell-large-stories! Everything I hated about Mission Mangal and it’s whole “one man guiding the little women”, this film got right.
Continue readingDriving Licence Review (SPOILERS): The Story Behind Every Star Story
Trying very hard to keep my eyes open and looking forward to spending tomorrow just being sick in bed, but I will plow on and finish the SPOILER review of this movie, because it is just so interesting! Oh, and I encourage you to read the spoilers in this case if you want. Probably most of you can’t see it in theaters, and the ideas it brings up are universal and really interesting to discuss. Or at least, I think so.
Continue readingDriving Licence Review (No SPOILERS): Shahrukh’s Fan, But in Kerala and With Prithviraj
As expected, I did way too much and by the end of the day was having a very hard time staying awake since I am ever so slightly sick. I just barely managed to make it through to the end of this film without falling asleep, but it was worth it (I think).
Continue readingChristmas Week Movies: Kumbalangi Nights, a Dark But Hopeful Family Film
I didn’t love love this movie as much as some other people did, but it is still a very very good film. And a visually beautiful film. And although it gets really dark in a lot of places, it ends in a place of hope and peace and love that feels very Christmas-y.
Continue readingChristmas Week Repost: Ohm Shanti Oshaana! My Favorite Malayalam Film
I guess tied for favorite? I also really adore City of God. But this one is the first one I loved.
Continue readingHistoric Films Week: Kayamkulam Kochunni, a Big Fun Communist Bandit Movie!!!!
We skipped Helicopter Eela and saw this instead, and it was such a good decision! I recommend you do the same.
Continue reading2009 Week: The Most Important Malayalam Film of the Year, Ritu
What an interesting movie! I read that it is supposed to be the start of the new age films, but it actually reminded me a lot more of Aalkkoottathil Thaniye. And other films I’ve seen from that classic 90s/late 80s era.
Continue readingWednesday Malayalam: Nayakan, Pellissery’s First Film, It’s All About the Faces
Woo, I only have one Pellissery film left to watch! And also, booo I only have one Pellissery film left to watch. I will be so sad when it is over.
Continue readingWednesday Malayalam: Kali, Dulquer and Sai Pallavi’s Perfect Little Thriller Love Story
Such a well-made movie! I didn’t fully appreciate it back when I first saw it, but after having seen more Malayalam films, and more Dulquer performances, I really see how it is special.
Continue readingJallikattu Review (SPOILERS): This is the Reason I Stay Off Social Media
What a brilliantly disturbing movie. If you are a film person, someone who admires camerawork and inventive images and so on, you can watch it. If you are someone who tends to get emotionally involved in a film, maybe stay away, there are some very disturbing emotions here.
Continue readingJallikattu Review (No Spoilers): A Nature Documentary With “Man” as the Subject
Look at that, I’ve now seen almost all Lilo Jose Pellissery’s movies! And it’s not easy, they take a lot out of you, these films.
Continue readingWednesday Malayalam: Two Premam Reviews Combined into one to make a 3rd. Like His Love Stories!
This is gonna be weird. I wrote a Premam review very early on. And then I came back and reviewed it a second time. And now I am going to put these two reviews together into one awkward review.
Continue readingWednesday Malayalam: Brother’s Day! A Movie For Prithviraj Fans and NO ONE ELSE
Luckily, I am not the only Prithvi fan here! So that small band of us can all watch and enjoy this movie together.
Continue readingDaily Hrithik-Tiger Shipping Post: What Other Casting Options Would We Use for War?
Let’s recast this sucker! Mostly so I can make it female-female, but I would also be okay with male-female.
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