Monika’s Pensieve

Below I’ve embedded a video about how the Inpupiat community in Kivalina, Alaska are bringing a law suit against the major oil companies. Due to global warming their village will have to be relocated. The move is very costly and they hope to get the necessary money through the law suit.
The villagers will try to [...]

The Borat publicity was crazy, but the Brüno publicity is shaping up to be some of the most tasteless, crass and vulgar publicity that Hollywood has seen - check out Brüno’s spread in Marie Clair - Brüno’s A-Z is quite something ;)
I guess there’ll be a lot more articles and interviews like that to report [...]

The strike I’ve been following has finally come to an end - it lasted two months. More details on the settlement can be found here.
Consequently, release dates for the coming major Bollywood releases have finally been announced :)

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Brüno (USA, 2009)
Polish Distributor: Monolith (10th July 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): 8th July 2009
Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen
Production House: Everyman Pictures, Four by Two, Media Rights Capital
Plot: (from imdb)
Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America.
Trailer

The sceptical part of me thinks that…
It could get a bit too vulgar even for my taste ;)
The [...]

This is the story of an Afghan boy who was imprisoned by US authorities at the age of 12. He is still in Guantanamo today. While most of the cases of prisoners who were underage at the time of capture have been resolved by now, his was not the only such case.

A short report on why certain countries are treated differently than others when it comes to nuclear weapons…

The European Parliament elections will take place in just a week. I’m pretty disillusioned with the state of Polish politics at the moment, but I believe the reason it is what it is is that people do not take their responsibility to vote seriously. If everyone took it seriously, things would be quite different…
And so, [...]

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June is relatively unexciting to me cinema-wise, which is a good thing as it’s exam month…
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (USA, 2008)
Polish Distributor: Kino Świat (26th June 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): 7th September 2008
Director: Kevin Smith
Cast: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Mewes, Jeff Anderson
Production House: Blue Askew, View Askew Productions, Weinstein Company, The
Plot: (from [...]

The Harry Potter clip they showed at the MTV Awards was crap (if you’ve been watching the trailers then you’ve basically already seen it - it’s the Voldemort as a little boy one), but they also showed the first New Moon trailer (which is also crap ;) ).
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (USA, 2009)
Polish [...]

Would you like to be put to rest in a coffin shaped like a pen, a saw or maybe a car?