Monika’s Pensieve

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Yuvvraaj (India, 2008)
Seen: Monday, 4th May 2009 (cinema, special screening)
Runtime: around 2,5h
Director: Subhash Ghai
Cast: Salman Khan, Boman Irani, Anil Kapoor, Zayed Khan, Katrina Kaif, Mithun Chakraborty
Production House: Eros International, Mukta Arts
Plot: Deven wants to marry Anushka, but Anushka’s father hates him. When Deven’s father dies, he tries to get his hands on the family [...]

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Driving Lessons (UK, 2006)
Seen: Thursday, 30th April 2009 (DVD, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 98′
Director: Jeremy Brock
Cast: Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Julie Walters
Production House: ContentFilm, Rubber Tree Plant, UK Film Council
Plot: (from imdb)
A coming of age story about a shy teenage boy trying to escape from the influence of his domineering mother. His world changes when he [...]

The extent to which the new Harry Potter film is featuring on my blog is ridiculous ;) It’ll be hilarious if I see the film in July and then declare it’s awful lol
Anyway, here’s the latest news that caught my eye…
New Character Posters
So far I’ve not been too keen on the posters, some of them [...]

For those of you, who want to break out of the gmail, yahoo and hotmail monopoly on free e-mail services, this is worth having a look at I think :)

This time it’s a throw triple axel with Rudy Galindo - pretty impressive actually. There’s only one male-female pair in competition at the moment (Inoue/Baldwin), who have performed a throw triple axel in competition.

I just looked through the long list of films that are releasing here in May and I’ve concluded there’s no new releases that I particularly want to see in the coming month :] Planet Doc Review takes place in the coming month in Warsaw though, so I hope to attend a bit of that :) [...]

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (USA/UK, 2007)
Seen: Friday, 24th April 2009 (DVD, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 116′
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jayne Wisener, Ed Sanders
Production House: DreamWorks Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
Plot: (from imdb)
The infamous story of Benjamin [...]

Well ok, maybe not ;) But this is still fun. I love the hands *grin*

{FILM SPOTTING}
Cherrybomb (UK, 2009)
Polish Distributor: None as of yet
Release Date (worldwide): Premiered at the Berlin Film Festival (February 2009)
Director: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn
Cast: Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, Kimberley Nixon
Production House: Generator Entertainment, Green Park Films, Octagon Films
Plot: (from imdb)
Cherry Bomb follows teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle as they embark on a wild weekend of [...]

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White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (Belgium/Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/France/Germany/Netherlands/UK, 2003)
Seen: Monday, 20th April 2009 (cinema, Afrykamera festival)
Runtime: 84′
Director: Peter Bate
Production House: Périscope Productions, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Arte, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON), Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (VRT), Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Yleisradio (YLE), History Television, SBS Television, Danmarks Radio (DR)
Plot: (from [...]