Monika’s Pensieve

I read this on Equus’s blog and almost didn’t click on the video link, but I’m really glad I did *grin* Normally this sort of thing happens only in the movies.
Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talentby dwarthy

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Brideshead Revisited (UK, 2008)
Seen: Monday, 6th April 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 133′
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, Patrick Malahide, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon
Production House: 2 Entertain, BBC Films, Ecosse Films, HanWay Films, Screen Yorkshire, UK Film Council
Plot: England in the early 20th century. The story of Charles Ryder, a wannabe painter from a [...]

I started writing this ages ago, but due to the internet problem I haven’t been able to post this until now :] So sorry for this being rather belated!
It’s my attempt at starting another series of posts on this blog. The concept is to sum up what’s been happening in my life at the end [...]

I’m finally back on-line! I’m really behind with all my on-line activities *sigh* But hopefully I’ll get back into action on this blog very soon *grin* I had a bit of a film-watching frenzy last week, so I’ve got about 10 film reviews pending, yikes! They’re all kind of half-written, so you may expect a [...]

The reason I’ve suddenly stopped posting is that Telekompromitacja Polska has yet again cut off my internet access without giving any notice. Not only that, we have no idea as to when they’re going to connect us back up again and for various reasons other ISPs are not an option (we’ve tried).
Anyone trying to contact [...]

Here’s a very sad story of an Afghan actress and how she has had to go into hiding because of her profession. The article goes on to say:
Correspondents say there is marked sense of unease among many other working women in Kabul and other Afghan cities as the presence of the Taleban - who have [...]

I don’t usually blog about music, but this was just too weird ;) So Snoop Dogg decided to mix things up a little and after the success of Slumdog, he recorded a song with Tanvi Shah - one of the singers on the Slumdog soundtrack. I thought mixing hip hop with Bollywood music wouldn’t be [...]

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Po-lin. Okruchy pamieci (Germany/Poland, 2008)
Seen: Wednesday, 1st April 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 82′
Director: Jolanta Dylewska
Narrator: Piotr Fronczewski
Production House: A Jour Film, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien (BKM), Bomedia, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, PISF
Plot: A documentary about Poland’s Jewish community in the 1930s.
Trailer

Impressions In Short
The informative value of this film is huge and I [...]

I watched these two interviews on Andreja’s recommendation and she was right - he’s hilarious in them *grin*
You can watch Dev Patel on the Jonathan Ross show here and here.
And below is the second one in which he was interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel:

I came across this. When you count all versions of Firefox and all versions of IE then IE still comes on top in Europe (though not everywhere - not in Poland for example *grin*), but Firefox 3.0 is the most popular browser version in Europe at the moment :) It’s interesting to see that [...]