Indie Film Release Guide: May 5th [An ONTD Original]

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[sandstorm]

I should see Polite Society before it leaves.

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Haven't seen any movies lately, too busy with other stuff!! But my plans slow down a lot next week, so hopefully I can get to see AYTG?IMM then.

Going to see an early screening of Blackberry on Monday night with a Jay Baruchel/Glenn Howerton Q&A, so I'm looking forward to that.

I can't get to GotG til Tuesday because we have guests, so here's hoping I can remain unspoiled til then!!

[beaucadeau]

i haven't had the time to go to the movies in so long, but i might go on sunday, depending on what's playing at the local indie theatre

[beaucadeau]

okay i went and watched the trailers and CELINE DION

[xdecadentx]

I really enjoyed What's Love Got To Do With It?

It's heavy handed in some places but it makes good points about South Asian culture. I laughed at the ages thing because it's happened a lot with arranged marriages with guys I know who have married girls from Pakistan and it always seemed off.

[littleredmill]

Omg, I saw it and didn't like it at all! I really wanted to, but I hated the writing for Emma Thompson's character and also the subtle messaging that the white girl brings the brown family back together. Also as a South Indian, the movie lost me at the matchmaking scene when they used colourism as a joke. They could have left that bit out and it would have been so funny, but i didn't appreciate that at all.

[xdecadentx]

Yeah Emma Thompson's characterisation was weird. Especially with some of the things she was saying when she was supposed to be quirky and it was mostly just...cringe in a lot of places.

Honestly the colourism thing was something I'd experienced so I thought it was quite true to life but I can see how that's where it lost you.

[aliceofclubs]

Really?

it started out strong, but wowza I really hated the ending. It would have been so nice for him to have stayed true to either/both parts of his heritage, but of course that didn't happen. would it be so scandalous to depict a happy ending with a brown Muslim person.

[des_pudels_kern]

I watched Unrest earlier this year and I absolutely loved it. I've been meaning to read up on the anarchist movement of the time since then, but have no idea where to start and so... don't.