Monika’s Pensieve

Russell Means is an actor, who has extensively campaigned for Native American rights throughout his career. The interview is fascinating :)

{FILM DIARY}
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (USA/UK, 2008)
Seen: Saturday, 16th May 2009 (cinema, Planete Doc Review)
Runtime: 99′
Director: Marina Zenovich
Production House: Antidote Films, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Graceful Pictures
Plot: (from imdb)
Marina Zenovich’s new documentary examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski’s sudden flight from the United States.
Opening Scene

Impressions In [...]

Here’s an article about how the theatre crowd in the US is much more supportive of gay rights than the film people.

Just following up yesterday’s post. The clip Warner Bros released is actually a little bit longer than what was shown on the Ellen show. For the full version (in any quality and format you please) go here.
Ron totally looks like he’s coming on to Harry ;)

Hollywood investing in Bollywood is old news by now. But it looks like their interest in Indian cinema is growing. It’s no longer just the Hindi language sector they’re after. Fox Star Studios is set to enter the Tamil film industry (also known as Kollywood).
Fox generally seems to be very keen on investing in Indian [...]

The first poster for New Moon (the next film in the Twilight saga) is out.
IMO it doesn’t look too exciting. Hope the film will be better than the poster ;-P

There’s a slew of TV spots of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince coming out. Most of them are very boring (the same footage rehashed over and over) and only a few are moderately interesting IMO.
This one captured my interest because it’s Draco-themed and because of the Carry Out the Deed line. Helena Bonham-Carter delivers [...]

You may remember I wrote about how I love you Philip Morris (the Jim Carrey-Ewan McGregor romance) was having problems securing a distribution deal in the US because of a sex scene that was described as graphic (which probably meant oral rather than graphic ;)). It seems to have finally secured a distribution deal in [...]

As much as I was complaining about there being too many trailers, I kind of like this one lol It’s different than the others cause it focuses completely on all the romance stuff and it looks rather hilarious. I love that they’ve pulled Dumbledore into it. There’s no scene in the books where Dumbledore starts [...]

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 [...]