Monika’s Pensieve

Haven’t done any short, random sort of posts for ages, should get back to that :]
Anyway, Bollywood is still changing very dynamically. The borders of what is accepted in terms of violence, sex and language are constantly being pushed and there’s more experimentation with genres that have been absent in Bollywood before now. One of [...]

The first poster for New Moon (the next film in the Twilight saga) is out.
IMO it doesn’t look too exciting. Hope the film will be better than the poster ;-P

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 [...]

They’ve released six new character posters for the upcoming Harry Potter movie. I think they’re really ugly and too photoshopped ;) Much preferred the previous ones.
However, there’s one thing about them that makes me very happy *grin* Usually before every film they release the posters of the characters they’re going to focus on (for example [...]

The teaser poster of Thirst, Park Chan-Wook’s latest film, features a priest in “sexual context” and has therefore been banned in Korea. You can see it here. I think it’s quite beautiful and only a little bit sexual, but whatever :]

Ever since the release of Snakes on a Plane (2006) loads of jokes about it have been made. I’ve never seen the film, but the title just says it all ;) In fact that is exactly how the film was marketed:

What I hadn’t realized until recently was that it was an ongoing joke in the [...]

The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have censored the poster for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. You can see the poster (along with a similar, but saucier poster for Good Luck Chuck which they did approve of last year) here.
Kevin Smith & co had to come up with a new [...]