A very funny kitty

Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 12:18 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities
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I don’t normally post these kinds of clips, but this one was just so cute and weird that I had to ;)

Shelter - a pleasant coming of age film with some gay adoption rights debate in the background

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Shelter (USA, 2007)
Seen: Thursday, 1st April 2010 (cinema, LGBT retrospective)
Runtime: 97′
Director: Jonah Markowitz
Cast: Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe
Production House: GP Pictures
Plot: (from imdb)
When his college dreams are sidelined by family obligations, a young man finds comfort in surfing with his best friend’s brother.
Trailer

Rating: +0 (Liked It)
Impressions In Short
It’s basically a pleasant coming of age [...]

Desert Flower - a very moving film about Waris Dirie and her fight against female circumcision

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Desert Flower (UK/Germany/Austria, 2009)
Seen: Wednesday, 31st March 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 120′
Director: Sherry Horman
Cast: Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Anthony Mackie, Juliet Stevenson, Timothy Spall
Production House: Desert Flower Filmproductions
Plot: (from imdb)
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally [...]

Singh is King - a standard masala flick

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Singh Is Kinng (Australia/India, 2008)
Seen: Saturday, 27th March 2010 (cinema, BollywoodFestiwal.pl)
Runtime: 135′
Director: Anees Bazmee
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri, Kiron Kher, Javed Jaffrey
Production House: Blockbuster Movie Entertainers, Big Screen Entertainment
Plot: (from imdb)
A comic caper about Happy Singh, a Punjabi villager who goes through a series of misadventures and eventually becomes the Kinng of [...]

Dulha Mil Gaya aka Shahrukh and Sushmita rock

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Dulha Mil Gaya (India, 2010)
Seen: Friday, 26th March 2010 (cinema, BollywoodFestiwal.pl)
Runtime: 152′
Director: Mudassar Aziz
Cast: Sushmita Sen, Fardeen Khan, Ishitta Sharma, Shahrukh Khan
Production House: Insight Productions, Maverick Productions
Plot: Donsai is a spoilt brat and a womanizer. After his father dies, he is forced to marry the girl his father chose for him, if he wants [...]

Heaven on Earth - Preity Zinta at her best

Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 11:45 | Category : Film Diary, Slices, The Canadian film industry
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Heaven on Earth (Canada, 2008)
Seen: Monday, 22nd March 2010 (cinema, BollywoodFestiwal.pl)
Runtime: 106′
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Preity Zinta
Plot: (from imdb)
Chand, a young Punjabi woman, travels to Canada to marry a man she has never met. They live in a crowded suburban house and Chand has to also put up with her husband’s abusive behavior.
Trailer

Rating: -1 (Disliked [...]

Remember Me - a very unusual film and a really pleasant surprise

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Remember Me (USA, 2010)
Seen: Friday, 19th March 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 113′
Director: Allen Coulter
Cast: Chris Cooper, Robert Pattinson, Lena Olin, Ruby Jerins, Pierce Brosnan, Tate Ellington, Emilie de Ravin
Production House: Summit Entertainment, Underground Films and Management
Plot: Tyler Hawkins is a 22 year old New Yorker, who is going through a stage of rebellion. The film is [...]

The Hurt Locker - a pretty evenhanded account of what being stationed in Iraq is like

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The Hurt Locker (USA, 2008)
Seen: ??? sometime in March, didn’t note down the date :-/ (cinema, special screening)
Runtime: 131′
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Production House: Voltage Pictures, Grosvenor Park Media
Plot: (from imdb)
Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite [...]

Presque Rien - a very French art house movie

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Presque rien (France/Belgium, 2000)
Seen: Thursday, 18th March 2010 (cinema, LGBT retrospective)
Runtime: 100′
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast: Jérémie Elka?m, Stéphane Rideau
Production House: Lancelot Films, Man's Films, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), arte France Cinéma
Plot: (from imdb)
Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother’s summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. [...]

The Wolfman - an old school monster movie

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The Wolfman (UK/USA, 2010)
Seen: Monday, 15th March 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 103′
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving
Production House: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Stuber Productions
Plot: (from imdb)
Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.
Scene From the Film

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