Monika’s Pensieve

I should be really excited about this trailer - it’s the most Draco and Snape they’ve shown yet. Draco even gets a line of dialogue in this one. Bizarrely, however, I’m not particularly excited at all :] I think they’ve gone over the top with the amount of trailers (counting the Japanese one I think [...]

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Brideshead Revisited (UK, 2008)
Seen: Monday, 6th April 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 133′
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, Patrick Malahide, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon
Production House: 2 Entertain, BBC Films, Ecosse Films, HanWay Films, Screen Yorkshire, UK Film Council
Plot: England in the early 20th century. The story of Charles Ryder, a wannabe painter from a [...]

I don’t usually blog about music, but this was just too weird ;) So Snoop Dogg decided to mix things up a little and after the success of Slumdog, he recorded a song with Tanvi Shah - one of the singers on the Slumdog soundtrack. I thought mixing hip hop with Bollywood music wouldn’t be [...]

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Po-lin. Okruchy pamieci (Germany/Poland, 2008)
Seen: Wednesday, 1st April 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 82′
Director: Jolanta Dylewska
Narrator: Piotr Fronczewski
Production House: A Jour Film, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien (BKM), Bomedia, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, PISF
Plot: A documentary about Poland’s Jewish community in the 1930s.
Trailer

Impressions In Short
The informative value of this film is huge and I [...]

I watched these two interviews on Andreja’s recommendation and she was right - he’s hilarious in them *grin*
You can watch Dev Patel on the Jonathan Ross show here and here.
And below is the second one in which he was interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel:

Came across this article and while a lot of it is stuff I’ve already heard before, there’s some nice quotes :)
As usual I’m excited for any Draco tidbits (even though they don’t really reveal anymore than I already know), but the one revelation for me was this:
The film?s visuals also play their part in establishing [...]

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I Love You Phillip Morris (USA, 2009)
Runtime: 102′
Director: Glenn Ficara, John Requa
Cast: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor
Production House: Europa Corp., Mad Chance
Plot: The real story of Steven Russell - a conman, who eventually ends up in jail where he finds his one true love… his cellmate.
Trailer

The sceptical part of me thinks that…
The reviews are [...]

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Dhoom (India, 2004)
Seen: Monday, 30th March 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: 129′
Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Uday Chopra, John Abraham, Esha Deol
Production House: Yash Raj Films
Plot: A gang of bikers is on a large scale robbing spree and a policeman is trying to crack their case.
Trailer

Impressions In Short
I like Abhishek and John together *grin* But the film [...]

Fortunately, April is not as confusing as March ;) Nothing that I’m veeery excited about though.
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Waltz With Bashir (Israel/Germany/France/USA/Finland/Switzerland/Belgium/Australia, 2008)
Polish Distributor: Against Gravity (3rd April 2009)
I spotted this originally during the Warsaw Film Festival last year.
Che: Part One (France/Spain/USA, 2008)
Polish Distributor: SPInka (3rd April 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): 21st May 2008
Runtime: 126′
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Benicio [...]

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (India, 2008)
Seen: Sunday, 29th March 2009 (cinema, special screening)
Runtime: 167′
Director: Aditya Chopra
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Vinay Pathak, Anushka Sharma, Bipasha Basu (cameo), Lara Dutta (cameo), Kajol (cameo), Rani Mukherjee (cameo), Preity Zinta (cameo)
Production House: Yash Raj Films
Plot: Surinder, a shy boring middle class kind of guy is trying to make [...]