Monika’s Pensieve

A Lancashire design student figured she could make objects disappear by painting them right. Check it out - it’s quite amazing :)

The BBC asked three cartoonists from Afghanistan, Iran and Venezuela to sum up Obama’s presidency so far. Here’s what they came up with.

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 [...]

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Dhoom:2 (India, 2006)
Seen: Thursday, 7th May 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: 152′
Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Uday Chopra
Production House: Yash Raj Films
Plot: (from imdb)
ACP Jai Dixit and his best friend Ali takes on an international thief known only as Mr. A. Will they be able to catch him?
Trailer
I think the trailers [...]

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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 :) [...]