I have just got back from Mani Ratnam Raavan and I am still in shock.


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1. Proving my utter shamelessness, I purchased a Harlequin romance in which a small-town girl purchases a bachelor at a charity auction in order to bring him home for her parents' anniversary as her date. She thought she bid on a paramedic but instead ended up with an Irish gigolo. We all make these small mistakes from time to time. It's ( Read more... )

Mr Mousie and I watched 3 movies recently but I forgot to post about that.

Invictus - we gave up halfway through. It was so very boring. Blah blah racism is bad, Mandela is cool, rugby as symbol of unity blah blah. I agree with the movie's politics but the preachiness was still boring.

Sherlock Holmes - it may be a purist's nightmare but it got ( Read more... )

My idea of a date movie is Zombieland (Mr. Mousie is a lucky man) so we went to see it tonight and heeeeeeeee. I haven't laughed and had a good time like this at the movies in a long time.

It's an indie road and coming of age movie. With hordes of zombies. And Woody Harrelson being the most awesome twinkie-obsessed badass of all time.

Go see it.

I saw Bright Star today, Jane Campion's newest movie about the love between John Keats and Fanny Brawne ( Read more... )

In my neverending quest to watch cheesy movies from as many countries as humanly possible, I watched the flick Rojo: La Musica or Nada, a musical made for Chilean TV ( Read more... )

We went to see The Wrestler yesterday, starring Mickey Rourke as the title character, a formerly famous wrestler who is decades past his prime and Marisa Tomei as a stripper friend of his.

It was FRELLING amazing. Unbelievable.

It's by far the best American movie of 2008, for my money.

Trailer:

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Saw Milk yesterday (the movie, not the white liquid people drink). It was an entertaining enough way to spend 2 hours and $10 but good acting notwithstanding, I fail to see the fuss over it - except for the fact that it was about a gay person, it was a stultifyingly conventional biopic, sort of a 'watch and forget' kind of a movie. But then, the ( Read more... )

Oh my goodness!


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