Monika’s Pensieve

I just searched for The Hunchback of Notre Dame on youtube for no apparent reason and the number one result was my favourite ever Walt Disney scene. Apparently, it’s not just me - there’s loads of people who love this one *grin* What gets me about it is that it seems so totally inappropriate for [...]

Belatedly, but I thought I’d finally post some of the publicity they released for A Single Man leading up to the Oscars.
Clips from the Film
A lot of scenes from the movie were released. I ended up watching most of them and then getting annoyed with myself for watching so many ;)
The top most watched one [...]

Saw Valentine’s Day recently (the review will come eventually :]) and both of the Taylors were mercilessly making fun of their image, which is one of my favourite types of humour *grin*
What I didn’t realize was that Lautner had already done much worse to his image on SNL. My favourite of the sketches is the [...]

There’s been a lot of speculation about whether the upcoming Deathly Hallows movies will feature nudity or not. There actually is a scene in the book where Harry is naked (it’s not a sexual scene if anyone’s wondering), but most people assumed the film would interpret naked as bare-chested.
But then came some vague comments from [...]

I had this idea ages back that maybe if I learnt more about vegetables, it would somehow drive me to incorporate more of them into my diet. So I thought I’d write some blog posts about vegetables, but I only ever started drafting one about carrots. So with the purpose of cleaning out my drafts, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Yay, I’m finally up to date with my film diary! *grin*
{FILM DIARY}
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 [...]

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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 [...]

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L.I.E. (2001, USA)
Seen: Monday, 28th December 2009 (VHS, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 97′
Director: Michael Cuesta
Cast: Paul Dano, Billy Kay, Brian Cox
Production House: Alter Ego Entertainment, Belladonna Productions
Plot: Howie is 15 and is going wild. Breaking into houses becomes one of Howie’s pastimes. One day, Howie ends up robbing the house of a man, who happens to [...]