Monika’s Pensieve

From now on, most of my film reviews will be grouped into a monthly post. There are some films that I feel like writing more about and those I’m still going to dedicate whole posts to. But the rest is going to get shorter treatment - hopefully this will mean I won’t be quite so [...]

I’m ditching my film spotting rating. It adds complexity rather than clarity. What I do want to stay with though is the practice of listing films that I’m in two minds about seeing (or in other words I’d probably see the film if a friend wanted to and/or if there was nothing else interesting [...]

I’m not sure all my attempts at mixing things up are going that well (I think my film diary format change is actually worse than what I had before ;-P). But I’m doing some further experimentation this month anyway.
So firstly, I’m introducing a “how much I want to see the film” rating:

+3
Very excited!
I’ve been obsessively [...]

Reviewing every single film I watch is a bit impractical time-wise (and this has been on my mind for a long time now despite appearances ;-P). The reason I keep doing it is that I like having a record of what I watched and how I felt about it.
I’ve finally decided that while I want [...]

{FILM DIARY}
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 [...]

A lot of interesting films coming in this month :) And there’s the Planete Doc Review festival (7th-16th May) on top of that!
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Bad Boys Cela 425 (Poland/France, 2009)
Release Date (Poland): 7th May 2010
Release Date (worldwide): 22nd May 2009
Runtime: 120′
Director: Janusz Mrozowski
Production House: Filmogène
Plot: (from imdb)
Seven repeat offenders are serving sentences of 9, 12, 18 [...]

I’m attempting to put the rating system into practice… We’ll see how that goes :) It’s a little difficult when I’m applying it so far back (I’m still about 2 months behind with my reviews *blush*).
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Tan Lines (Australia, 2006)
Seen: Thursday, 25th February 2010 (cinema, LGBT retrospective)
Runtime: 96′
Director: Ed Aldridge
Cast: Jack Baxter, Jed Clarke, Daniel [...]

I’ve been totally abysmal about updating this blog of late. Sorry about that :-/ A lot (of good things, mostly) are happening in my off-line life at the moment :)
My blog needs a change of formula I think, but I’ll get to that… eventually. Hopefully, you’ll see some bigger changes here in the next 2-3 [...]

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Daybreakers (2009, Australia/USA)
Seen: Monday, 18th January 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 98′
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Willem Dafoe
Production House: Lionsgate, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Pictures in Paradise, Pacific Film and Television Commission, Furst Films
Plot: (from imdb)
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. [...]

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Every year, my January is busy and every year Polish film distributors sadistically release loads of movies I really want to see during this time ;-P Hope I get to see at least some of these *sigh*
Hunger (2008, UK/Ireland)
Release Date (Poland): 8th January 2010
Release Date (worldwide): 15th May 2008
Runtime: 96′
Director: Steve McQueen
Cast: Michael Fassbender
Production [...]