Radio interview with Tom Felton and Matthew Lewis
I thought this was a pretty amusing interview. The audio is a little difficult to make out, but there’s a transcript.
A clip from last year’s Academy Awards…
I think this has been in my drafts since February when the last Academy Awards took place :] Now that the next ones are slowly coming up (we’ll probably have the nominees up by the end of January or so), I guess I may as well post a reminder of last year’s ceremony ;-P
Anyway, I [...]
An interview with Siddiq Barmak or how the Taliban destroyed Afghan cinema
This is a totally ancient draft…
Siddiq Barmak, without exaggerating too much, basically is Afghan cinema nowadays. Almost any Afghan film project intended for cinema is somehow associated with him. In the interview he talks about his award-winning film Osama (which I reviewed in April), but he also says a lot of stuff about the Taliban. [...]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - the DVD publicity
I’ve got all kinds of random links and stuff in my drafts and I’ve come to the conclusion that I should finally clear my drafts out, wish me luck ;) Lets hope this is the first post in a series…
This is something I should have posted in about November, which is when the DVD publicity [...]
“Terrifying kisses” in a Bollywood film
Haven’t done any short, random sort of posts for ages, should get back to that :]
Anyway, Bollywood is still changing very dynamically. The borders of what is accepted in terms of violence, sex and language are constantly being pushed and there’s more experimentation with genres that have been absent in Bollywood before now. One of [...]
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl aka Taylor Lautner makes a cute shark
Yay, I’m finally up to date with my film diary! *grin*
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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005, USA)
Seen: Wednesday, 6th January 2010 (DVD)
Runtime: 93′
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Taylor Lautner, Taylor Dooley, Cayden Boyd, George Lopez, David Arquette, Kristin Davis
Production House: Dimension Films, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Troublemaker Studios
Plot: (from imdb)
A boy dreams up shark-boy and lava-girl [...]
And I thought New Moon was annoying! (Saathiya reviewed and lots of Shahrukh gushing - you’ve been warned ;))
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Saathiya (2002, India)
Seen: Tuesday, 5th January 2010 (DVD)
Runtime: 138′
Director: Shaad Ali
Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Rani Mukherjee, Shahrukh Khan, Tabu
Production House: Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Plot: (from imdb)
The tale of a young couple in love who elope and marry, but soon find that that marriage is not the bed of roses it is made out to be.
Trailer
Impressions [...]
Girls come of age too (An Education reviewed)
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An Education (2009, UK)
Seen: Thursday, 31st December 2009
Runtime: 95′
Director: Lone Scherfig
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Olivia Williams, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Peter Sarsgaard, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike, Emma Thompson, Sally Hawkins
Production House: BBC Films, Endgame Entertainment, Finola Dwyer Productions, Wildgaze Films
Plot: (from imdb)
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her [...]
Billu review or how sometimes I like Shahrukh’s flops better than his hits
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Billu (2009, India)
Seen: Thursday, 31st December 2009
Runtime: 137′
Director: Priyadarshan
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Lara Dutta, Om Puri, Kareena Kapoor (cameo), Deepika Padukone (cameo), Priyanka Chopra (cameo)
Production House: Eros Entertainment, Red Chillies Entertainment
Plot: Billu is a barber living below the poverty line. When a film crew comes to shoot in his village, gossip starts that [...]
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Heath Ledger, a lot of people pretending to be Heath Ledger and plenty of weirdness
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009, UK/Canada/France)
Seen: Thursday, 31st December 2009
Runtime: 122′
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Verne Troyer, Tom Waits, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell
Production House: Infinity Features Entertainment, Poo Poo Pictures, Davis-Films, Grosvenor Park Productions, Parnassus Productions
Plot: Doctor Parnassus has made a pact with the devil. [...]
