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NEAT BLOG POSTS
Alex seems to have seen a lot of Tim Burton films - and as always, put them into a cool list.
Nik and Stevee celebrated Mean Girls Day without mentioning Lars von Trier.
Gaja Gamini reviewed Hasee Toh Phasee and I still don't know what to expect.
Jaina continues to wow me with her photographies for Project 365.
Veracious looks back at her Filmi year of 2013. She also invents the fitting phrase of "Saif Ali Khan -ing one's career".

 + NEW BLOGS!
  Chronicles in Frame is an exciting pop culture blog with a lot of movie content.
  Jdbrecords seems to write about almost everything - that's how I discovered these great poems by Chocolate Waters.

INTERESTING VIDEOS
What other way to celebrate mother's day than with a dose of Lonely Island's Motherlover?
I skipped ESC this year and good thing because no, I'm not a fan of this song.
People who use the site player may have noticed that Jimmy Franco by LOLAWOLF has been hovering there for a while now - one of the best videos of the year so far.

GROOVY PODCASTS
Reel Insight (a podcast I highly recommend) looks back at 2009's box-office bonanza Avatar and Oscar winner The Hurt Locker.
FTS did a similar episode to our last one with REDUX: Movies We Love That Others Hate & Vice Versa. Such fun!

WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING ELSEWHERE
I spent one day writing about J.K. Rowling's Works and How They're Connected so you'd better read it. Right now.

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Words Have Been Flowing Out For 1 Year!!

The following post was reblogged from acrosstheuniversepodcast.wordpress.com - thank you for 12 great months, Nik and Sofia.  It's been a great adventure so far and I will never get tired of explaining people what a podcast is or that you are not people I met through online dating (who ever thinks of this stuff?). I hope we will have the possibility to meet some time although it probably won't be in the next year. Here's to another 12 months of discussing Mads Mikkelsen (how to pronounce his name, I mean)!

Welcome to the Across the Universe Podcast blog! 

Exactly one year ago today, we Chicks with Accents published our very first podcast episode. Celebrating this milestone, we redesigned the podcast's image and came up with new ways to spread our work and improve it, in order to serve you better. So here are some of the news:

• First and foremost, you can now stay tuned with everything Across the Universe related through our Wordpress Blog. 
• From now on, all our episodes will be available for you to listen online or download, completely free.
• New episodes will be structurally optimised, along with a few more surprises...!
• The podcast now has a Youtube channel, where episode trailers will be uploaded.
• We've made a new podcast trailer:

As always we encourage your feedback, so leave us a comment below or get in touch through our facebook page. Contact us via email: acrosstheuniversepodcast [@gmail.com]

The Chicks: Mette M. Kowalski -- Blog | Facebook | Twitter -- Germany
Nikhat Zahra -- Blog | Facebook | Twitter -- India
Sofia da Costa -- Blog | Facebook | Twitter -- Portugal

On our next episode we'll discuss Monster Movies! Join the conversation on Friday, the 16th.

The Ten: Most Iconic Movie Characters

What would this website be without the glorious help from other bloggers out there who spend more time producing content than thinking about producing content. One of those angels is Nostra from My Filmviews who puts the best blogathons, memes and similar gifts out there now and then. This time, it's another relay race...

A list of 10 iconic movie characters has been made. That list will be assigned to another blogger who can then change it by removing one character (describing why they think it should not be on the list) and replace it with another one (also with motivation) and hand over the baton to another blogger. Once assigned, that blogger will have to put his/her post up within a week. If this is not the case the blogger who assigned it has to reassign it to another blogger. After you have posted your update leave the link in the comments here and I will make sure it gets added to the overview post.

Another angel is my desi girl Nik from Being Norma Jeane who was kind enough to tag me for this blogathon. I wasn't sure whether I'd dare to participate but okay then, let's get it on with.

HAPPY NEW MONTH! - Wrapping Up April 2014

The sun is shining, the house is clean and I've almost finished my Harry Potter read-a-thon already. So it's a great time isn't it? If only I manage avoiding to think about next weeks exams (well, I'm not that afraid anyway), find the perfect au pair family soon (lots of great contenders) and find a way to stay happy and relaxed during work three days in a row (nobody in their right mind works at the supermarket these days three days in a row) - everything will be better than ever! In fact, my cinema has started showing good movies in the original version feature - finally! Just this past Tuesday, I went to see Divergent with a bunch of friends and my dear sister and next week I will be celebrating my finished German exams with Transcendence (which I hope is better than what I've heard). Anyway, if everything else fails I can always sing "Just aaa SPOON FULL OF SUGAR MAKES THE MEDICINE GO DOWN" all day long. So far it has worked.

WATCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME

Across the Universe Podcast, Eps 25: Movies People Hate That We Love

For our first jubilee - number-wise - we are joined by the always cool and brilliantly British Cherokee from Can You Dig It? to discuss a rather embarrassing topic. As always, Nik, Sofia and my own humble self reveal more and more secrets about ourselves and our movie blogging personas as we talk about the movie that we secretly enjoy watching.  

00:21- Chick-chatter
03:28- Trailer
04:05- Guest questionnaire
14:03- The chicks and Cherokee list their favourite films that are hated by most people
1:05:24- Plugs and Goodbyes

Soundtrack
Guest's choice- Comeupoutdawahta (by Gmcfosho)
Mamma Mia! (by Meryl Streep)

Across The Universe (by Rufus Wainwright)




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Leaving Hogwarts and the Order of the Phoenix

HARRY POTTER AND the order of the phoenix

book 2003    movie 2007   first read 2003    first watch 2007

A fifth-in-a-row return to the school of wizardry and witchcraft, where I realize the upside of growing up and that Professor Umbridge is really Goebbels.

Across the Universe Podcast, Eps 24: Winter Soldier

It's veeeery late this time but I just got home from my holiday in Sri Lanka. So here's our latest episode on the new Captain America film (which you get on DVD in Asia already, most certainly illegally). Also enjoy our new game that will set your brain on fire. Or something else.

00:00- Chick-chatter
03:24- Trailer
03:55- Interesting Movie of the Fortnight
17:03- Main discussion on Captain America: The Winter Soldier
55:40- Fuck, Marry, Kill: Superhero edition
1:10:35- Plugs and Goodbyes

Soundtrack:
Star Spangled Man (by David Zippel and Alan Menken)
Trouble Man (by Marvin Gaye)
Across The Universe (by Rufus Wainwright)



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Blind Spot Fixed: Léon, The Professional

Life has taught me that it's always easier to just give your thumbs up to something than to back off and share your doubts on it. Add to that the fact that I can't really get angry - like, ANGRY angry - and think fighting is sort of useless, and you have me slightly afraid of the reactions to this post. Let's cut to the slack: I wasn't the biggest fan of Léon, my April entry to the Blind Spot series. It's a movie I've been aware of for a long time now and I've been close to picking it up several times on flea markets and the like. As all of the movies I chose for this blogathon, it's one of the highest ranked films on IMDBs Top 250 that I haven't seen until now - and this is a list I have only had good experiences with so far. Not that Léon was a bad experience. In fact, I acknowledge it to be a good, solid film with an unusual story and great characters. Still, I'm not a fan.

Spread the Word | Watching Chris Evans on The Tonight Show Is a Legit Hobby But I Still Don't Have a Life

NEAT BLOG POSTS
Mettel explains her reasons for loving film and defends movie-watching as a hobby.
Sofia - dashingly - lists 30 of the many movies to look out for this year.
It's an older post, but I finally read Stevee's wonderful post on feminism and film.
Nick impressed me by not only watching, but also reading Divergent.
Katy reviews Jobs and not surprisingly dislikes it a lot. My tiny hope for it was finally crushed.

SUPERB VIDEOS
Sherlock Season 3: The Musical is so perfect even now. I can't wait to re-watch this season.
Nik shared this awesome video of The Evolution of Bollywood Music.
Jensen Ackles sing 'Carry On My Wayward Son' - does it need more saying?
Chris Evans and his brother Scott were hilarious on the Tonight Show.

GROOVY PODCASTS
As You Watch is becoming a favorite - they recently talked about Woody Harrelson, Anton Yelchin and Daniel Brühl.
FTS is still my #1 podcast and in their latest episode theyd list their favorite Fake Movies/ Shows in Real Movies/ Shows.
If podcasting was a religion, my God would be Ryan McNeil who had Stevee Taylor join him to voice-review Noah along with Vigil and Ben Hur.

WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING ELSEWHERE
Since last time, my guest spots on The Film Pasture (Episode 13: Get a Life!) and the LAMBCast (Episod 212: Muppet Mania) came out. I had a great time discussing my lack of life and what watching the entire Muppet franchise has to do with that on both of these shows.

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Short Break | No Time

A long time before the days of Requiem For a Dream and Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky was "just" one of the most promising graduates from the directing program at the American Film Institute. Apparently, the most important short from his days of studying, Supermarket Sweep, became an actual National Student Academy Award finalist! However, neither this nor his other two AFI shorts Fortune Cookie and Protozoa, are available to common peasants like me. With no time on my hands and a strong desire to participate in French Toast Sunday's amazing director months, I tracked down the last of Aronofsky's short films. It is named, ironically No Time.

If your impression of Aronofsky so far has been that of a highly intelligent director who makes slightly depressing movies - including what is probably the most depressing movie of all time - you will think again once you've seen the precious 1994 short No Time. Where to start? It's pure mayhem from the beginning and then 22 minutes onward until the end. Consisting of several short episodic sequences that bear close resemblance to those sketch shows that seem to have disappeared from [Danish] television, this film is as different from the other two Aronofsky films I've seen, as the black swan is from the white swan. If anyone could've told that this was an Aronofsky film without knowing, I will quit being a semi-critic and watch 1000 more movies before I start writing about them again. 

The protagonists of the short are four friends that may or may not be living together, and whose entertainment options have narrowed down - however, we only find out what has happened in the middle of the short. Anyway, the try to bide their time by playing charade and also going on individual adventures such as playing basketball and fishing. If this sounds pretty basic; yes, it is, but Aronofsky manages to fill every sequence with enormous amounts of slapstick and situational humour that is pushed to an almost grotesque level in the end. This kind of humour is certainly dangerous and not universal at all, even for me, it can go either way. But within minutes, I found myself laughing louder than what is probably appropriate when your sister is trying to fall asleep next-door. No Time worked just as well for me as Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan have, although on a completely unexpected, ridiculous level. I can't wait to finally watch his other three - well, actually four now - movies soon. If you would like to see No Time for yourself, scroll down and hit |>.

All month long, FTS will be highlighting the work of Darren Aronofsky and also posting other related articles and links from around the web. Post your links and find banners here, send an email to lindsay@frenchtoastsunday.com for help and use the hashtag #DarrenAPRILofsky for tweets. 

Big League Blogathon | Field of Dreams

What makes a life truly worth living? Few people living a privileged first world life - and I'm not talking about the top 10.000 - are satisfied by simply existing. Most of us, if not all of us, want to be remembered in some way, go down in history you may say. We want to be someone, to fulfill some sort of purpose in our life, a reason for a different future than one lacking a past that included us. 

Field of Dreams is a movie about this strange human struggle for validation and how people often have very different views on what makes a life worth living. In the middle of the attention, there's hippie-turned-farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) who has built up an idyllic existence with his born-and-bred country girl wife Annie (Amy Madigan) and their daughter Karin. One day he hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field in his back yard, which he does - and as if things couldn't become stranger, the ghosts of old baseball players start appearing on the field. Confused, Ray goes on a quest to find his all-time favorite author Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones) to help him understand the messages he's receiving and the purpose of his Field of Dreams. Terrence Mann was an activist writer back in the 60s and 70s and so certainly lived a life worth living in many ways, however he retreated from the public when he felt people weren't listening to him anymore.

Across the Universe Podcast, Eps 23: Belle de Jour

It's the first time we're talking about a movie chosen by our listeners - you had the choice between 6 movies and in the end, you chose the 60s Bunuel movie, Belle de Jour. First of all, thanks to everyone who voted, you were a lot more than we initially expected! Also, you seem to know us well as the film fits right into our favorite niche of foreign cinema with a female angle. The missing male eye candy was all made up for by the mesmerizing, Goddess-like beauty of Catherine Deneuve!

00:30- Chick-chatter
03:09- Trailer
03:50- Interesting Movie of the Fortnight
16:53- The chicks discuss the Listeners' Choice, Belle de Jour (1967)
43:53- Plugs and Goodbyes

Soundrack: 
I'm No Good (by Amy Whinehouse)
Get Some (by Lykke Li)
Across the Universe (by Rufus Wainwright)


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HAPPY NEW MONTH! Wrapping Up March 2014

I hate April jokes so this will be a more serious kind of introduction;
 Some people dislike talking about their age, or lie about it if the topic is forced upon them. Others love discussing how 'Your only as old as you feel like'. I know that just having turned 19, I'm not really in a position to join this discussion, but personally, I don't care much about growing older. It has its pros and its cons, but I'm really on Woody's side here: „Look at all these people, trying to stave off the inevitable decay of their bodies“ (Hannah and Her Sisters). I just don't get all these people going all crazy on their bodies, like one of my fellow ballet dancing ladies who can't make a day without jogging or she'll feel fat (even if the day includes a 2h ballet practice). Birthdays in themselves are great though - you get to be the center of the attention completely for one day, you're probably lucky to receive at least one great gift (a lot in my case - thanks everybody!) and you have a valid reason for partying. In fact, this whole month was a kind of celebration - of some unseen classics, my new love for the Muppets and the last weeks of high school. Cheers!

Leaving Hogwarts and the Goblet of Fire

HARRY POTTER AND the goblet of fire

book 2002     movie 2005     first read 2003?     first watch 2005

A fourth-in-a-row return to the school of wizardry and witchcraft, where I marvel at the fast pace, cleverly constructed plot and the connections to North By Northwest.

ZOOM IN.

Captain America Blogathon | A Journey Through the Decades Lost

Dear Captain America/ Mr. Rogers,

I heard you've just been unfreezed which is great news and bad news at the same time. It's just a guess, but something bad must've happened or you wouldn't have been melted? Anyway, I'm not as familiar with your story as many other people, not having seen the recent picture based on your achievements in the War nor having read any of the comic books centered around you. However, I'm a big fan of moving pictures - we call them movies or flicks these days - and I have taken the freedom to arrange for you a list of those you may have missed during your... well, absence. There is a movie from each decade since you were frozen and I have tried to choose one that reflected its time very well. I hope this will be a help for you to get used to your surroundings and catch up on the years you've missed.

Spin-off Blogathon | Agent Mariah Hill and Jor-El

It took some time to figure this out, but my final choice for the spin-off blogathon hosted by Sati is a tie between two comic-book-to-movie characters. Funnily, it's a very fair tie in many ways, representing both genders, both comic book giants (DC and Marvel) as well as two different general opinions on each movie. My choices are Agent Mariah Hill, played by the fabulous Cobie Smulders in The Avengers and Jor-El/ Superman's real dad, played by Russell Crowe in Man of Steel. You can guess which of the above characteristics belongs to which character.

Blind Spot Fixed: American History X

I can't discuss American History X - which, just to give you an impression, should land somewhere up in my Top 10 films of all time - without discussing my initial expectations for it. Along with Once Upon a Time in the West, this was the movie from blind spot list that I expected least from, mainly because I knew the least about it. The title had always made me think of some slightly preachy yet solid, typical 'universally good movie' about Malcolm X and black oppression. At least I was slightly right about that last one, but surprisingly there is no trace of Malcolm X in this movie at all. Lincoln may have been mentioned, which brings me to my first point: Movie buffs have been talking a lot about racism in the last two years with Lincoln and 12 Years a Slave being released and overall cherished. These were two movies that left me very cold and didn't trigger much of the aspired emotional reaction in me, which has convinced quite a few people I talk to about movies that I am a racist (jokingly... I hope). For example, one of these people was very surprised when I told him that I had actually fairly enjoyed this year's Fruitvale Station, me being a racist and all. I can't wait to tell him what I think of American History X (hint: it begins with M and ends with ASTERPIECE)*.

Across the Universe Podcast, Eps 22: Teenage Dream

Sofia and I turned 22 and 19, respectively, and all three chicks including Nik celebrate this with some fun, over-the-top, rebellious teenage movies; I forced some High School Musical on the two, Nik went with the classier choice of Rebel Without a Cause and Sofia took us back to the crazy 80s with Girls Just Want to Have Fun (which, by the way, is available to watch legally and free on youtube).

Let us be your teenage dream tonight!

PS: Please vote for the movie you'd like us to watch for the first time and discuss in the next episode! You can find the poll by clicking on this link or on the sidebar.

00:33- Chick-chatter
02:32- Trailer
03:12- Interesting Movie of the Fortnight
14:02- The chicks discuss High School Musical (2006)
26:09- The chicks discuss Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
38:09- The chicks discuss Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
48:08- Plugs and Goodbyes

Soundtrack
We Are Young (by Fun. feat. Janelle Monáe)
Teenage Dream (by Katy Perry)

Across The Universe (by Rufus Wainwright)




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Spread the Word | My Home Is Happy, 10 Minutes You Have to See Before You Die and a Poll

B Brittani Burham has a different opinion on How I Live Now than me - which I'm cool with.
L Hashtag Chicago; here are 10 Great Films by Not-So-Great Directors.
O Gaja Gamini reviews 3 Deewarein, a Hindi-film blindspot that's been haunting me for years.
G Dan Heaton writes about Nebraska and the American Dream.
S Ryan McNeil saw digested a movie I'm dying to see, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

V The Ninth Doctor: A Tribute celebrates one of the most underrated Doctors.
I There's a Happy video from my own home town - We are happy from Flensburg.
D My darling Nawazuddin Siddiqui is starring in a weird looking movie called Lateef.
S I stumbled upon the curious French Toast Sunday youtube channel.

N The new Maze Runner images look kind of intriguing.
E A LEGO movie video game has been released - not that I have time to play.
W Black Widow might be getting her own movie!
S Jonathan Keogh worked for a year on compiling all 1001+ Movies You Have to See Before You Die in to one video - and it's amazing.

M I was a guest on the Matineecast, Episode 107 - The Blindspot Series.
E Please vote for The Elements Trilogy for Movie of the Month on the LAMB Page sidebar!

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Nineteen Candles

By the time you read this, I will be recovering from my massive hangover by eating massive amounts of birthday cake. Okay, maybe I'll try and lessen the massive, but you don't turn your last year of -teen every year, do you?

Last year, I celebrated my 18th birthday with 18 lists. This year, I have neither the time nor the energy to do so - instead, I will give you one list that is good enough to make up for the lack of 18 more. Initially, I wanted to make a list of my 19 favorite films from 1995. It turns out, however, that I have seen only 18 (!) films from the year I was born! That's less than a third of the 2013 films I've seen. So my list is easy; it's all the films of 1995 that I've seen (from worst to best) and then 19 more that I want to see until the 9th of March 2015. Cheers!

WHAT I'VE SEEN

BATMAN FOREVER

A great cast, especially with Jim Carrey as The Joker. How sad that the plot just doesn't hold up. I watched this last year as preparation for Man of Steel (because my knowledge of the superhero movie genre was as big as Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar) and was very disappointed after the previous two Burton Batman films.

RAM JAANE

This is one of my 90s Shahrukh Khan Bollywood guilty pleasure films... but I don't have the guts to rank it higher. It's very colourful and bloody and unrealistic but I sort of enjoyed it.

KARAN ARJUN

Another 90s Bollywood Shahrukh Khan film - but this one also stars now-superstar Salman Khan. Well, it's a weird movie and a very bad example of the lost-and-found genre.

GUNDARAJ

90s Bollywood had it in it, right? This was the first on-screen pairing of now married Ajay Devgn and Kajol and they really don't have that much chemistry. However, the soundtrack is pretty nice in a trashy kind of way.

WATERWORLD

Having grown up on a ship myself, I was very fascinated with the concept of this film. Kevin Costner is always a safe choice for me too. Some of the effects were a bit heavy and the whole story was quite far-fetched but I generally liked this film.

BAD BOYS

Yeah, I remember close to nothing about this one.

POCAHONTAS

Never one of my favorites but I still liked it more than some others. I guess I just never thought Pocahontas was that beautiful... sorry. I'm not racist like that anymore.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

In my big Austen phase (right in the middle of my teenage, actually), this movie was a very pleasant discovery. Need I say more than Alan Rickman?

THE USUAL SUSPECTS

I wasn't as blown away by this film than many others, although perhaps I just wasn't paying it enough attention. The twist is very surprising and cool though.

BRAVEHEART

Again; I remember next to nothing about this and what I do remember may come from clips I've seen at the Oscars. I really should give this one a re-watch.

BALTO

So I like animated films about sledge dogs. And I cry when I watch them. Well, actually I haven't seen this film since I was a child so maybe it's very bad.

BABE
One of my favourite films as a child, however I don't feel that compelled to re-watch it before I have my own kids.

WALLACE AND GROMIT: A CLOSE SHAVE

Who doesn't love Wallace and Gromit? The inventiveness and humour of the films are astonishing and they're the perfect mixture of things that will please adults and those that will please children.

CLUELESS

I'm overly happy I watched Clueless while I was still in high school. Not that Danish high schools are anything like American ones but there's a special feeling about this film for me now. And by the way, Paul Rudd - how does he do it? He still looks the same as in this film!

TOY STORY

Even though I practically grew up in the time of these films, I didn't watch them until last year or so. The fact that I love them shows how great they are indeed. All I want for my 19th birthday is a Buzz Lightyear!

BUMBAI

One of my teenage favourites that I have never rewatched - I do own the DVD though. It's not one I'm afraid to re-watch either, after all it stars my once favourite actress and is directed by one of my favourite directors. And it's not one of those cheesy, typical 90s Bollywood films (that I do love but... you know).

DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE

Yes, the cheesy, perfectly romantic and in part bizarre 90 Bollywood love story still rules. Almost. My nr. 2 of the year I was born in introduced a whole new style into the world of Hindi cinema and sky-rocketed the careers of most people involved. I wish Shahrukh would go back to making such fun movies with actresses his age.

BEFORE SUNRISE

The mixture of almost unrealistically magical love and bittersweet realism is what makes Before Sunrise my true favourite of 1995. It is heart-wrenching, -warming and anything in between and I wish it would go on for much longer than it does. Basically, I want to stay in that music room scene forever.

WHAT I WANT TO SEE

APOLLO 13

Only Best Picture nominee I haven't seen, space, Tom Hanks - what's not to like?

LEAVING LAS VEGAS

I just desperately need to get a different impression of Nicolas Cage.

DEAD MAN WALKING

Susan Sarandon rocks and I need to catch up on famous female performances anyway.

MIGHTY APHRODITE

One of the many Woody Allen films I've never heard of - perfect!

ANTONIA'S LINE

What a better place to start watching Dutch films than this acclaimed film with a weird poster?

ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED

Granted; I'm just going through the Oscars of 1995 right now. But this one does sounds interesting; Anne Frank is kind of a big deal in high school here.

THE FOUR CORNERS OF NOWHERE

Stephen Chbosky wrote a wonderful novel and directed a wonderful film with The Perks of Being a Wallflower, so let's see what else he put out.

RANGEELA

Absolute 90s Bollywood classic that I am yet to see. I do know the title song pretty well though. Happens a lot to me with Indian films, most often I never see the movies themselves.

LA HAINE

I have heard so much about this movie that I almost feel like I've seen it already.

SE7EN

I'm going to watch it for BlindSpots anyway, so that's neat.

HEAT

I quite like Michael Mann and this could be a nice double feature with The Heat.

CASINO

Martin Scorcese is the #1 of the directors whose filmography I need to crack anyway.

AKELE HUM AKELE TUM

This movie has been mentioned in so many other films that I feel my horizon is going to expand instantly while I watch it.

BAASHA

I can handle a Rajnikanth movie a year, right? I mean, this is the first year I'm trying it.

TWELVE MONKEYS

This just somehow looks and sounds absolutely intriguing.

THE BASKETBALL DIARIES

Whatever Leo says does.

DESERET

I need to watch more docs and WOW how does this have such bad ratings yet is in the 1001 bible?

ZERO KELVIN

Norwegian cinema rocks - and this particular specimen looks very fascinating.

I know; KEEP CALM is probably so-18-years-old by Sunday. By today, I mean. Happy birthday to present me from past me! And have a nice Sunday, everyone.