Monika’s Pensieve

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?

Women in Lebanon enjoy more liberties than in most other Middle Eastern countries, but their role in politics is still marginal.

A news report about Malalai Joya, an outspoken critic of the Taliban, the Northern Alliance and the USA’s presence in Afghanistan. As you may imagine, death threats are a common occurrence in her life…

I found this highly amusing, though I probably shouldn’t have :]
For those who cannot read Polish, there was a nudist night at a Łódź swimming pool. Liga Polskich Rodzin (Poland’s resident right-wing psychos) took the case to the police because some of the people present at the event were underage. The official bodies explained that [...]

This is a report that deals with China’s awkward position in the current economic climate.

A news report about the problem of fossil thefts in Peru.

I found this short report quite fascinating. It’s a face of the US that I don’t get to see in the movies and taking in Guantanamo prisoners certainly does sound like a good solution to their problems…