Happy Monday! Well, happy for you, not me. Not unhappy for me, just exhausted. Between the yards of the house-house, and the summer opening of the lake house, I worked flat out in a variety of ways all of last week (just some random examples, last Sunday I hung curtain rods, this Thursday I carried a large dollhouse down from the attic, and on Saturday I dropped a paving stone on my finger). My eyes hurt, my back hurts, and I don’t want to move. I think next weekend I will officially give myself time off and not do ANYTHING.
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Silly Birthday Boys Post: Naga Chaitanya, Arjun Rampal, or Vijay Raaz?
Three very different men! All of whom have birthdays in the same one week period! And all of whom kind of hit a different taste level as movie stars. Let’s set them against each other!
Continue readingI’m Stressed, Photo Post! Surprisingly Sexy Photos of Art Actors, in Honor of Naseerji
Ugh! Grandpa’s in the hospital, the roofer has to do a lot more work than anticipated, I didn’t get enough sleep because the dog kept crawling on me all night because I forgot to fill his water dish, and WORST OF ALL because of Grandpa, we may have to cancel on the small children on Saturday and I CAN’T HANDLE DISAPPOINTING SMALL CHILDREN!!! Their little eyes get big and they try not to cry and they are embarrassed because they are so sad. It’s HORRIBLE. Babies just cry and cry, and adults are tough, but that in between age when they want to cry but know they aren’t supposed to cry, that just rips out your heart. I CAN’T TAKE IT! Anyway, sexy photos to distract me.
Continue readingSherni Review (No Spoilers): Pretty Forest, Frustrating Story
I’m doing it! I’m reviewing a new movie I watched! Just like my life is not in uproar and confusion!
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Try to Survive the Heat!
Happy Saturday! Supposed to be over 90 degrees in Chicago today! So I think I will spend the day hiding in air conditioning.
Continue readingThinky Post: Ali Zafar Update and How We Choose Who We Believe
This is the slowest time in blogville, holidays are getting everyone busy and stuff, so it seems like a good time for me to post something controversial. Only my old friends who will read carefully and thoughtfully are hanging around. You don’t have to agree with me, but I know the DCIB regulars will at least take me seriously and consider what I say.
Continue readingChopsticks Review (SPOILERS): A Little Fable of a Girl and a Guy and a Goat
What a very pleasant little movie! Not a perfect movie, not a deep movie, not even that involving of a movie much of the time. But very very pleasant.
Continue readingChopsticks Review (No Spoilers): A Pleasant Little Film, No Songs But a Great Heroine
I finally watched it! Over a year after it released on Netflix and most other people saw it! But whatever, in this strange world of sliding release dates and straight to streaming products, I am still giving it a “no spoilers” and a “spoilers” separate review.
Continue readingMonsoon Wedding: Humanist Film Making
I’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 readingSunday ReRun: Gully Boy, the First Great Movie of 2019
Woo, Gully Boy! Released in February, just when I was thinking 2019 would have no good movies at all. And then it showed me that it would have at least one.
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