tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-139274812011-12-04T11:04:57.901+01:00A Polish girl finds herself in desperate need of a <a href="http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/devices/devices_n-r.html#pensieve">Pensieve</a> (a magical object from the Harry Potter series) and this is what happens - she starts a blog.Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.comBlogger1291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-38747002882286455342008-09-10T00:27:00.001+02:002008-09-10T00:29:25.212+02:00

Check out my new blog :)

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-26981909576183977202008-09-05T17:27:00.002+02:002008-09-05T17:32:34.410+02:00

I haven't (yet) forgotten the existence of my blog... But I'm thinking about moving it and seriously re-organizing it. So please bear with me :) I'll write here when I'm ready.

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-18373135417392006142008-08-16T17:30:00.001+02:002008-08-16T17:47:50.826+02:00

The 6th installment of Harry Potter was supposed to release in cinemas on the 21st of November, but as you must have gathered by the title of this post - it's not going to :]The film is ready and the producers are happy with it, but they think they'll earn more money if they release it on the 17th of July. This perhaps would not be so weird if they hadn't already released a trailer that says "

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-20097987303201286812008-07-14T01:00:00.002+02:002008-07-15T14:17:04.698+02:00

Just as you enter Muranow, one of my favourite cinemas in Warsaw, there is a sign in big golden letters which says - "Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us" and the quote is signed Vladimir Lenin. Seeing it there has always amused me, which is probably why I remember it.The reason I bring this up is that as I watched The Schoolgirl's Diary I couldn't stop thinking about the little

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-32618755411777168362008-07-03T22:30:00.000+02:002008-07-03T22:41:06.541+02:00

A huge animation boom is happening in the Indian film industry right now. The Western media have even coined a new term for it - 'Bollymation'. The animation sector is growing so rapidly that India is facing a major skill shortage. According to Variety uptil now India would produce about 5 animated films a year. At the moment there are 92 animated films in production.The animation boom of course

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-20559927082771396822008-06-28T13:30:00.002+02:002008-06-28T13:30:01.190+02:00

Being the sadist that I am, I felt compelled to write yet another Japanese cinema post which almost totally ignores Matsumoto Jun's existence. Hopefully Andreja is appropriately annoyed by this - I'll be disappointed if she isn't ;) Actually, even Kinga voiced her displeasure the other day when I told her I was in the middle of writing this post rather than one about Jun ;)For those of you

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-61371166294426146572008-06-10T00:01:00.000+02:002008-06-10T00:08:38.288+02:00

One of the latest trends in Bollywood is blogging. Some of the biggest Bollywood names that are now blogging (much more regularly than I do btw!) are Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan. The latest person to start one is Ram Gopal Varma - one of the more "auteur" directors in Bollywood. While I have blissfully ignored the blogs of Aamir Khan and Mr Bachchan (whenever they write something more unusual

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-70387052329035009002008-06-09T19:56:00.004+02:002008-06-09T20:57:29.854+02:00

Continuing my June trend of posting things as I read them rather than saving them in my drafts with the intention of writing giant posts I don't really have time for, here's another article/video I came across. It's about Murat Kurnaz, who was detained in Guantanamo for 5 years and released without charges. Guantanamo is nothing new (even on this blog), but I found the video really informative

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-64367328871051880662008-06-08T18:47:00.003+02:002008-06-08T19:04:13.668+02:00

I have this feeling that I'm not going to write anything long or meaningful this month, so I figured that rather than not writing anything for a month I may just as well do a few totally random and very short posts ;-PSo here's proof that computer geekdom is way more interesting than it sounds ;-P Or to be a bit more specific it's 10 quotes by Linus Torvalds - the father of linux. Apart from

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-87078576479984531512008-06-03T12:57:00.002+02:002008-06-03T13:16:30.487+02:00

Just thought I'd follow up my previous post on North Korea with a BBC article I came across. It's about the lengths to which North Koreans go to to get out of the country and features some video material to go with the text.

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-17965366746568342192008-05-15T23:00:00.000+02:002008-05-15T23:00:07.318+02:00

The Planet Doc Review festival is being held in Warsaw right now. My dad took me out on Monday to see Andrzej Fidyk's Yodok Stories, which is a documentary about North Korean concentration camps. What many people don't realize (or at least I didn't) is that North Korea is running several concentration camps today (I believe the film spoke of the existence of 15) to hold political prisoners and

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-74871513553198913562008-05-11T11:30:00.001+02:002008-05-11T19:09:59.091+02:00

So... if you ever meet my friend Andreja and wish to annoy her (or in fact, it will suffice if you encourage her to read your blog - an actual meeting is not necessary ;)), there is a simple way to do it. All you need to do is write about the wonderful world of Japanese film & TV and choose to focus on someone who is not Matsumoto Jun ;)I am therefore going to continue to annoy her for the time

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-35875160947624807552008-04-26T15:00:00.001+02:002008-04-27T21:42:25.025+02:00

Since I've already started gushing about Matsuda Ryuhei on this blog, I figured I may as well do a whole post just about him ;)The quote in the title is from this site (where you can also read a short bio). I shortened the title quote a bit cause it was just too long, so the full quote (which is somewhat less sensationalistic, but still amusing) is:I like to play people who play video games all

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-85625199915890332032008-04-25T20:45:00.002+02:002008-04-25T22:40:47.892+02:00

As you may have noticed my promised comeback to the internet has not happened ;-P (apologies to anyone still waiting for replies to e-mails, you will have to wait longer ;-P). In fact this month it got so bad that I haven't even been using my RSS reader which has resulted in a total ignorance to current events (and I'm usually totally addicted to my RSS reader!).If anybody wants an explanation

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-52320046691725210062008-03-30T14:15:00.003+02:002008-03-30T15:01:36.675+02:00

...a totally random Bollywood film clip on youtube. It's from an old Shahrukh film which I haven't seen called Zamana Deewana (1995). From what I understand the story is about the police trying to stop the violence between two rival gangs. Rather than tackle the gangs directly the police have decided to try and make the children of the two gang leaders fall in love. The clip is a dance number

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-42882419336965069462008-03-27T23:50:00.006+01:002008-04-01T12:25:38.871+02:00

Hopefully, this post will mark my proper "comeback to the internet" (yes, maybe I'll even start replying to e-mails soon ;-P). When one doesn't have internet for a long time, one kind of almost gets used to not having it and now that I've finally gotten it back I have no idea how I ever found time for it in the first place. I still haven't gotten through all the news in my RSS reader btw, so I

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-48029428438128612512008-03-08T13:50:00.002+01:002008-03-08T14:22:37.808+01:00

The trailer for Shyamalan's The Happening has been out for a while and it looks like this:As you may remember "The Happening" is on my list of films to see in 2008 because it's the first time that an Indian production company is co-producing what is essentially a Hollywood film (and I'm weird enough to be excited about that). But I must say the trailer has made me doubt whether I really want to

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-4667966574360143842008-03-08T03:30:00.000+01:002008-03-08T03:36:11.807+01:00

I finally have internet courtesy of TP S.A. *grin*So I have to get back to posting... faaaast! There's just too much I want to post ;-PAnyway, the two biggest film industries in the world had their most commercial award ceremonies last month, on the same day no less (24th February).You can check out the winners here and here.I've been following the chances of Katyń at the Academy Awards on this

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Believe it or not, I am still off-line (which is why I'm not writing on this blog at all) - all thanks to Tele2. The way things are going we're probably going to go back to T.P. S.A.First they said that it would take 2 weeks at most to connect us up and probably less. Then they said they didn't say that, that it always takes 30 days. As the 30 days came to an end they phoned to say that it would

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-37052025294936617302008-02-10T01:50:00.000+01:002008-02-10T01:54:40.808+01:00

Annoyingly enough I've been cut off from the internet (I'm expecting the situation to last for another 2 weeks), which is why I've already broken my New Year resolution of writing here regularly once per week ;-PI do, however, have lots to write about and surprisingly enough a strong inner need to do so (I litterally *need* to start drafting a whole set of new posts, I will not attain any sort of

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-10783464212682760702008-01-29T19:25:00.000+01:002008-01-29T19:26:06.376+01:00

I thought my Tony Curtis phase had finally passed, but apparently not ;)I watched The Boston Strangler (1968) on Saturday. It's based on the true story of a series of murders that took place in Boston in the 1960s. The film takes a lot of liberties with what happened, but as some of its best moments are at the times when it takes the biggest liberties I'm not particularly upset by that ;-P Curtis

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-21651726020051149722008-01-28T17:00:00.000+01:002008-01-28T17:05:05.536+01:00

I was very stunned when this happened around 2 weeks ago. Katyń had been shortlisted for the nomination, whilst 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days and Persepolis (both of which had had far more attention internationally) were not.But now that the nominations for best foreign picture have been announced, it's quite obvious what the Academy is doing - politics and war seem to be the main themes they were

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-25090242175405240142008-01-23T18:45:00.000+01:002008-01-23T20:05:25.669+01:00

This time the news is more high profile... Heath Ledger (who is probably best known as the star of Brokeback Mountain) died yesterday, aged 28.The circumstances of his death are similar to that of Renfro's and the exact cause remains unknown (am I the only one finding the similarities spooky?).Due to Ledger's involvement in Brokeback Mountain, The Westboro Baptist Church has announced they will

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-42158121673193263762008-01-18T22:30:00.000+01:002008-01-18T22:40:01.038+01:00

My Tony Curtis obsession has subsided a little bit, but as no bisexual 60s Hollywood star has taken his place yet, my internet searches still seem to be revolving around him ;-PSo firstly, here's a really nice interview with him in which he talks a lot about gender and sexuality in context of his film career.I also found a great audio interview (part one and part two) - he's clearly a really good

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-18025597630440784732008-01-16T17:25:00.000+01:002008-01-16T17:35:55.835+01:00

He died yesterday, aged 25. I'm a bit stunned...If you're not sure who I'm talking about then see his imdb page.

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-9718243088873224782008-01-14T21:00:00.000+01:002008-01-14T21:04:24.896+01:00

Why is it that whenever one has a lot of schoolwork to do, one always has an irresistible urge to do something else? (or at least that's what happens to me ;-P) I've got something like 4 tests and 2 projects over the next week, but am I studying? Of course not ;-P What am I doing? I'm getting unhealthily obsessed with Hollywood stars from the 50s and 60s. And lets get this straight (pun

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-45553211345500623352008-01-11T21:00:00.000+01:002008-01-30T14:30:22.465+01:00

So much for dividing things into parts so as to avoid writing long posts ;-PI've compiled my lists mainly on the basis of http://nowrunning.com/news/news.aspx?it=13186">this article. Another interesting article to look at is this one in which they asked a few Indian directors what they thought were the best films of the year.The release dates given are the Indian ones. The only film amongst these

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-85804317700698398072008-01-07T15:15:00.000+01:002008-01-07T15:07:27.940+01:00

PotterCast is the leading Harry Potter podcast. They got to interview J. K. Rowling in December and it's a really terrific interview :) It's very much an interview done by fans and for fans, so it has a completely different feel then what you normally see (a lot funnier and the questions are a lot more detailed).If you're a Harry Potter fan yourself and you've read book 7 then I urge you to check

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-38588690778737700002008-01-04T16:00:00.000+01:002008-01-30T14:30:41.316+01:00

This is a list of films that I'm excited about, ordered by the Polish release date (the dates may of course still change). You can treat it as an open invitation to see any of these films in the cinema with me ;)18th January, 2008 Lust, CautionWhy I'm excited?It's Ang Lee's first film after Brokeback Mountain, so I guess I would have always been curious about it (like a lot of the cinema going

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-71566161116162780772008-01-02T10:30:00.000+01:002008-01-02T10:39:52.122+01:00

Answer: By playing a very small part in a TV film called In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones. He had only a few lines in the film and they were dubbed over by somebody else in post-production. Even more amusingly, his character in the film is gay *grin*If you wish to see this strange turn of events with your own eyes then see below ;)

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-58956632363659186262008-01-01T22:30:00.000+01:002008-01-30T14:30:41.317+01:00

It's a risk posting these on-line because everyone will know if I don't keep them, but that may be a good thing ;) Anyway, here goes...To post here regularly ;)As odd as it may sound considering how rarely I post on here, I really like to write. It feels good to get whatever I'm thinking about out on "paper". I should do more of it.I think I'm going to try to post fairly regularly on Friday

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-82759181965072233192008-01-01T22:00:00.000+01:002008-01-30T14:31:05.582+01:00

Most sites and blogs are putting up various summaries of the year gone by, new year resolutions etc. It's my first full calendar year of running this blog, so I thought I may as well make my own attempt...Of course as I started writing it, my short New Year's post became a long New Year's post which has now become a draft for a series of posts ;)So 2007 will meet 2008 in 4 parts on this blog:New

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-61870296389059418272007-12-29T18:30:00.000+01:002007-12-29T19:12:23.779+01:00

A lot of the time when I don't post for a long time, I re-start by posting something completely random and short, so this will be no exception ;)Here's Shahrukh at his flippant best, promoting Om Shanti Om :) It's a 3 part interview embedded as a playlist, so I hope it works right... Part 3 is by far the funniest :)P.S. I'm expecting to be quiet throughout January as well, but hopefully halfway

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-28495167851542620432007-12-01T19:00:00.000+01:002008-01-01T23:12:42.277+01:00

Sweeney Todd is receiving a great deal of attention at the moment. There's been a multitude of TV spots and various promotional clips released and the first press screenings have produced some glowing reviews. This post is a selection of what I thought was most interesting :)A while back now, we got our first proper look at Johnny Depp singing and it was a really effective first look *grin*Warner

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-66272674370088609022007-11-14T12:30:00.000+01:002007-11-14T12:31:24.407+01:00

Bollywood is still a long way from properly challenging the major Hollywood studios, but for the first time something of the sort has happened (although I think these results require some interpretation ;)).Generally, trade analysts divide box office results into the US box office and the worldwide box office (worldwide = everybody except the US). This is convenient because films tend to stack up

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-76317266143102435402007-11-02T15:40:00.000+01:002007-11-02T15:38:41.121+01:00

Take That are now doing their second tour since their reunion and this time it's not just round the UK - they're doing many venues in Western Europe also. The good news is that the tour is yet another success, the bad is that Howard Donald has injured himself during one of the shows and Take That are therefore performing as a trio at the moment (though Howard will rejoin them as soon as his

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-26961937869032545472007-10-23T22:20:00.000+02:002007-10-23T22:21:55.108+02:00

The Warsaw Film Festival came to an end on Sunday. I didn't see many films by my usual standards (9 in 10 days), but I've got a lot going on at the moment.Mostly I had enjoyable screenings, but few of the films evoked any strong feelings in me. Before I get to the one that hit me so hard that I decided I needed to write a whole post about it so that I could let all those feelings out ;), I just

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-54796384049300790342007-10-22T21:07:00.000+02:002007-10-22T21:16:54.643+02:00

Yep, it's true! J.K. Rowling was asked about Dumbledore's love life in New York and now the news is out! :)

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-35538787157315059282007-10-20T20:45:00.000+02:002007-10-22T16:12:04.769+02:00

This is the second trailer and apparently there's still more to come (they're all supposed to emphasize different aspects of the film). This one emphasizes the gore and thriller aspects of the film.There's a few new shots and lines in there:I so wish we at least had a Polish date for the release :-/ Still no date is set and judging by the dates on which the film will be released in other

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-2543132424625821222007-10-07T21:35:00.000+02:002007-10-08T15:04:37.882+02:00

Naturally, everyone's trying to figure out whether Johnny Depp can sing based on those few seconds in the Sweeney Todd trailer where he's shown doing so. Someone on the imdb forums actually compiled an audio clip of three of the most famous Broadway Sweeney Todds and Johnny Depp singing the exact same lines. It's interesting to hear I think - Johnny's interpretation is very different. He's

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-14824324063836399732007-10-05T21:27:00.000+02:002007-10-05T21:36:32.293+02:00

Finally, the trailer for Sweeney Todd is out!! And it looks as good as I hoped it would :D Check it out:

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-25681001715057859542007-09-18T00:45:00.000+02:002007-09-18T00:50:47.935+02:00

The Venice film festival (which is the oldest film festival in the world and remains one of the most prestigious) came to an end the week before last and it was Ang Lee's Lust, Caution that won it.While this might seem irrelevant to the topic of this post, I assure you it's not ;) The trailer should give you an idea where I'm going with this:Anyway, the film has received an NC-17 certificate from

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-46373645068518813612007-09-14T12:30:00.000+02:002007-09-14T12:35:36.496+02:00

So the marketing campaign for Shahrukh Khan's next film has started!It's already run into some controversy, as it will release on the 9th of November - the same day as Bhansali's "Saawariya" (which was mentioned in more detail in one of my other posts) and Bhansali is angry with Farah Khan (the director of "Om Shanti Om" and "Main Hoon Naa") because he says she has ridiculed his mother.So anyway,

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-82482778158651080702007-09-11T17:42:00.000+02:002007-09-11T17:43:34.962+02:00

Last week, the Indian box-office saw possibly the biggest flop of recent times.Ram Gopal Varma has remade Sholay, the 1975 classic with Amitabh Bachchan in the lead. In the new version Mr Bachchan stars as the villain of the film.Reviews have been terrible and there's been a general uproar against re-making "Sholay" (it's a bit like doing a remake of "Citizen Kane"). The film has been taken off

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-37484552943894677652007-09-09T20:30:00.000+02:002007-09-09T20:26:52.799+02:00

It's still going to be a long wait before Sweeney Todd comes out (no release date set for Poland yet, but I think we'll be lucky if it comes out any earlier than February 2008). But even though we don't have a trailer yet, the temptation to write about it is too big - I've been extremely excited for this film ever since I first heard about it!I mean you've got a very gory Broadway musical

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-23766115491063974052007-08-29T09:00:00.000+02:002007-08-29T13:34:46.758+02:00

It seems like every 2-3 months is bringing stronger reasons to believe that Bollywood and Hollywood want to have a working relationship!The first time I posted about this was in February and then again in May.Well, now it's August and there's loads more to report :)Hollywood is starting to take the Indian market very seriously. In other words they've realized that there's a billion people in

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-84402899317840271212007-08-28T16:30:00.000+02:002007-08-28T18:46:03.836+02:00

I've been horribly neglecting my blog this past month :-/There's lot of things to write about, but I'm going to start with my impressions from the Wroclaw film festival cause otherwise I'll totally forget them (that was at the end of last month!).It was the 7th time this festival took place (the 2nd time that it took place in Wrocław - it's been moving to bigger cities as it's been growing). I've

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The new Harry Potter film has now released and the publicity for it is going on in full throb, which means there's loads of great interviews with the Trio (and Daniel Radcliffe in particular) floating around.Here's a long interview with Daniel Radcliffe from Entertainment Weekly. He talks a lot about Equus in it. My favourite bit from it is:The publicity photos for the play were extremely

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1449890692478555162007-07-14T01:17:00.000+02:002007-07-14T01:41:29.091+02:00

I always love it when someone does something drastically against their image and while I'm not a particular fan of Macaulay Culkin, I'm amazed that he did a film like Party Monster. How much further from his Home Alone image can you go? lol No idea about the quality of the film as a whole, but seeing the clips of him in it is hilarious - check them out, they're below.

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You can download the interview here. It's fun :D

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-5055490035760189582007-07-06T16:30:00.000+02:002007-07-06T16:25:57.011+02:00

Here's a clip from I think an old exhibition in Oświęcim. There's Mariusz Siudek (European and World Championship medalist) skating with Bartosz Domański (or at least I think that's him in the dress ;-P, he was Polish National Champion twice) and eventually a third guy takes the ice, but I don't know much about him.At any rate - it's fun ;-P

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-7274226865360568472007-07-04T02:43:00.000+02:002007-07-04T03:08:43.842+02:00

My ponderings about whether it's possible to put down clear guidelines as to what is obscene seem to be relevant yet again...Here's the article. The EU put together a short clip of sex scenes from famous European films that were funded by them and it has received a surprising amount of attention with many people terming it "soft porn".Polish politics make an appearance in the story as well of

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-63042248849616983362007-07-03T18:05:00.000+02:002007-07-03T18:04:48.198+02:00

I'm following up one of my previous posts. While Gandhi, My Father will be out in about a month, we've already got the first attempt to stop its release.The more I find out about Harilal, Gandhi's oldest son, the more I understand how heavy the material can potentially be. Check out this article and also the short wikipedia article about Harilal.

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-5208399363389070072007-06-30T22:20:00.000+02:002007-06-30T22:21:52.673+02:00

I'm putting it up because whenever Daniel Radcliffe talks about nudity or kissing I giggle (sad, I know).Here's a news clip from the first press junket which I think was in the UK:And here's the Japanese press conference (the world premiere was in Japan this year):

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-5494338668077071222007-06-28T14:00:00.000+02:002007-06-30T13:55:45.174+02:00

11 scenes from the new Harry Potter film as well as some cast interviews and backstage clips have been released here.Some of the best in my opinion are:"I see them too"It's the first proper glimpse we've had of Luna. It's just 2-3 lines, but she's perfect! (and very funny ;) )"How long have you worked here?"Umbridge is probably also going to be a lot of fun ;) I so love that Snape is like twice

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-88835772755589136192007-06-27T16:30:00.000+02:002007-08-28T18:56:03.360+02:00

So there's Chak de India, the new Shahrukh release in August, which I'm anticipating to be rather awful judging by the trailer (though of course because it's a Shahrukh release I'm still a little excited ;)). The premise of the film is Shahrukh's character coaching a women's field hockey team. The first teaser is below:But I also think it's high time to introduce the topic of Akshaye Khanna onto

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-81151568419980603672007-06-23T10:49:00.000+02:002007-06-23T13:57:32.502+02:00

As the summer holidays are approaching, you might want to find out a bit about experimental travel (see the definition on wikipedia).There are many very creative ideas to follow, for example what is known as Blind Man's Buff Travel:HypothesisExplore and experience a new place without seeing it.ApparatusA friend to guide you and a blindfolding mechanism of some kind.MethodSpend 24 hours

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This is a short follow-up to my big pornography post. While Polish politicians have been debating about a total ban on pornography, Iran seems to have taken their politic debates muuuuch further. If the proposal passes, anybody involved with the making, distribution (including websites) or production of porn films in Iran could be sentenced to death.

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-55338475743404941962007-05-31T14:48:00.001+02:002007-05-31T15:08:03.907+02:00

The Harry Potter Lexicon is one of the most amazing Harry Potter sites on-line. It's a total encyclopedia of everything to do with the world in the books, compiled from a huge range of sources. It is so good that J.K.Rowling admits to using it when she needs to check on some small fact somewhere.Anyway, they've put up the first part of a report from the set of the new film and since it's in their

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-5546163165631060322007-05-28T15:05:00.000+02:002007-05-28T18:29:33.869+02:00

Apparently Polish officials are worried that Teletubbies promote homosexuality. The reason they think this is because Tinky Winky carries a woman's handbag. They are considering taking the show off public TV if their psychologists confirm these very terrible fears.(For those who can't read Polish - I swear, I didn't make this up! That is really what the article says!)

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-85243661125475435872007-05-25T17:43:00.000+02:002007-05-25T18:40:59.209+02:00

There is a cinema boycott this weekend in Poland (not that I think many people know this ;-P). It is a reaction to the closure of napisy.org - a site which distributed Polish subtitles to films illegally.They make a couple of valid points. ZAIKS (which is the body that deals with copyright in Poland) indeed charges too much and have often been the cause for rising prices of cinema tickets. I also

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-43856551927563929892007-05-25T16:58:00.000+02:002007-08-28T18:57:30.569+02:00

I found these clips from Filmfare Awards 2003-2004 when Shahrukh and Saif were hosting together. It must have quite soon after Kal Ho Naa Ho since they were making references to it all the time (in the film, everytime Kantaben - one of the characters - sees the two of them together it looks as if they're having some sort of romance or something). Anyway, the clips are so silly I had to post them

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-24139491265500744062007-05-22T10:37:00.000+02:002007-08-28T18:57:30.570+02:00

Just found this clip and thought it was hilarious, so I'm posting :) It's from one of Shahrukh's live concerts (he's hinted he might be coming to Poland on the next tour he does :) ).

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-12831952728410969572007-05-17T20:30:00.000+02:002007-08-28T18:57:30.582+02:00

Collaborations between the two biggest film industries in the world sound like a very natural thing, but Indian cinema has never been taken seriously enough for it to happen.Attitudes, however, are changing on many levels (also see my post from February).For one thing - who'd have thought that tabloid stories from Bollywood would be the subject of a comedy show on mainstream American TV? (the

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I'm back from London and saw Equus at the Gielgud Theatre last Saturday. Unlike Ziggy I enjoyed it, so we might have a blog war now *grin* (that is if Ziggy even reads my blog entry of course ;-P).This was the first time for me to have known the text of a play quite well before seeing any performance of it which was an interesting experience in itself. I guess the biggest surprise for me was how

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-44476696573820562532007-04-26T23:00:00.000+02:002007-08-28T18:59:22.944+02:00

Funnily enough it's not the biggest Bollywood stars like Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan or Aishwarya Rai who make international headlines because of scandal. It's Shilpa Shetty - a girl who goes with her mother almost everywhere and seems to be one of the most politically correct stars in Bollywood *grin*For those of you who have been talked into watching some Bollywood movies, you may remember

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Warner Bros have just released another trailer. This one's for the US market I think (the other one was the international one):The beginning bit is the same as in the international trailer, but there are changes later through the trailer, but IMO the changes are bad rather than good... I mean it's even more action packed and even more pompous :-/ Of course one wants some action, but in the end

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-81547767199643859602007-04-22T21:54:00.000+02:002007-04-22T22:47:29.450+02:00

I've left it a bit long between posts again and as usual when I leave it long, my posts are short ;-P (incidently, I'm still much better than Ziggy who has just started updating his blog for the first time in about 18 months ;)).Anyway, the next Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix trailer is out, wheee! :D Check it out if you want to:There's a lot about it that I like, but I hate the music.

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-83023714578609308812007-04-09T01:00:00.000+02:002007-04-09T01:08:00.306+02:00

Unsurprisingly, psychologists have tried to work out ways of categorizing people into personality types. The most popular method as far as I know is the Myers-Briggs type indicator. This method is based on whether people are:Introvert or ExtravertSensing or iNtuitionThinking or FeelingJudging or PerceivingYou can read up more about these factors on wikipedia. By using them people can be divided

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1164224681879867142007-04-06T10:00:00.000+02:002007-04-06T04:17:26.648+02:00

Here we go, yet another post that has been in my drafts since December ;-PFor those who don't know, Take That was a British boyband that was immensely popular in the early and mid 90s (Robbie Williams was part of it until 1995) and I managed to get hooked on them when I was about 12 - I think it was March-April 1996 (they split in February 1996). As you see I had terrific timing with when I chose

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-32708262554209385532007-03-31T23:30:00.000+02:002007-05-20T09:42:47.062+02:00

Here's the story as it appears on BBC.But what really caught my eye was not that the Christian group was protesting against somebody making a chocolate sculpture of Jesus, but that they were protesting just as much about portraying Jesus naked:Ms McCaffrey had called the exhibit "an assault on Christians"."They would never dare do something similar with a chocolate statue of the Prophet Mohammed

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1167001520269204152007-03-30T22:30:00.000+02:002007-03-30T21:59:17.104+02:00

The Harry Potter books must be the only books ever which have people rampantly discussing their cover art and page count every time a new one is released ;) Here is the cover art for the seventh book. The page count for the British edition is 608 pages and 784 for the American edition (the text is the same, just that the American one has illustrations and I think the size of the print is bigger

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-62591430384186409472007-03-30T22:00:00.000+02:002007-03-30T21:57:44.394+02:00

You can see the pics here. I really love almost all the pics they've released so far - there's moments when I think I'll like the pics better than the film ;-PThese new pictures first appeared in this article which I think is a fun read :)Slightly old news, but the test screenings for the film have already taken place. You'll find some reviews here.

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-60645701754209483692007-03-28T16:45:00.000+02:002007-03-28T16:46:20.024+02:00

There are certain problems that computer technology might never be able to solve. Speech recognition might get further than it is today, but I think it's unlikely that a computer will ever understand fully natural speech. That is unless AI will become reality (which I very much doubt).Serious work on AI started in the 1950s so it's been over 50 years with relatively little progress comparing to

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Daniel Radcliffe has given a new interview on the Jonathan Ross show (the one from last year which was just as hilarious has been taken off youtube, but you can still access it - unfortunately in poor quality - here). The new interview is about Equus and the fifth Harry Potter film and IMO it's the dirtiest interview Dan has given yet ;) (although with a presenter like that it would be difficult

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1165254337356651732007-03-25T14:00:00.000+02:002007-08-28T18:59:22.946+02:00

According to this and this (both articles in Polish unfortunately!) Poland might be facing a full ban on pornography in the near future. The new legislation that some politicians want to bring in (perhaps they'll be in the minority, we shall see!) will make it possible for someone to get a prison sentence not just for distribution but even for possession of any kind of pornography.No definition

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-47655298429921235432007-03-17T11:45:00.000+01:002007-03-17T11:57:05.232+01:00

Little did I know when I posted this that 300 would fall into political controversy...Iranians are unhappy with how their history has been portrayed, saying that the film tells total lies (including changing the outcome of many battles). While I tend to believe them, I'm rather surprised that this is causing such an uproar... I mean everyone should know films like this are nonsense...

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-57254383719276841442007-03-16T20:45:00.000+01:002007-04-12T00:05:49.177+02:00

My cousin Matt tried to introduce me to The Office when he was here last year, but unfortunately (as with a lot of our film tastes) it did not go down well with me at all ;) I think it still hasn't been shown on Polish TV (though I could easilly be wrong seeing as I don't watch any TV really). The series was a huge success in the UK and was later remade for the US market. I clearly did not

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-65039527210508405902007-03-13T18:00:00.000+01:002007-03-25T14:40:44.162+02:00

Since I've had lots of fun posting about the Harry Potter nude story, I thought I'd follow it up ;-PThe play opened in London at the end of February and so far all the reviews I've seen have been good. Pretty much everyone who's seen the play says that by the time he takes off his clothes nobody cares because that's really not the point ;) Even those who dislike Peter Shaffer's plays or Daniel

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-59678349246638810282007-03-12T11:30:00.000+01:002007-03-12T16:44:06.456+01:00

Today is the funeral of Maria Olszewska-Lelonkiewicz. She was a figure skating coach in Łódź, probably the best ice dance coach we had in Poland in recent times. Sylwia Nowak / Sebastian Kolasiński and Aleksandra Kauc / Michał Zych were amongst her students.I've still not heard any news about what she died from, but there's a short article in Polish that you can read here. It is a great loss to

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-55512101903304609672007-03-11T13:21:00.000+01:002007-03-11T13:42:01.884+01:00

As usual I suck at regularly updating my blog (I regularly update my blog with drafts but not posts you see ;-P - I'm currently at 105 drafts versus 48 published posts if anyone's interested) and this post will be a pathetic attempt at getting back into the rhythm of writing here.Anyway, here's the trailer for 300 (an American movie in case you're wondering). I'm tempted to go see it once it

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-54812847763064393132007-02-22T18:03:00.000+01:002007-08-28T18:59:22.946+02:00

Just a short follow-up to my previous post.You can read a nice article about Water's chances for an Academy Award and about Hollywood starting to take notice of Indian cinema here.And I've found something on youtube that makes me even more excited about Shantaram. Below I've embedded an interview with the author of the book. It's in five parts (but I've embedded it as a playlist so it should

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-3101600694177590472007-02-16T23:00:00.000+01:002007-08-28T18:59:22.947+02:00

There's many things to write on the topic of why films from outside of the US don't seem to be able to make an impact in the US box office. Someday I hope to write a very long post about why that is (or at least why I think that is), but since I still have to read up a lot about it to properly write it, it won't be soon ;)But to make a long story short, the most major reason that makes it almost

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-86644920331127584972007-02-15T16:15:00.000+01:002007-08-28T18:59:22.948+02:00

I think it's appropriate to follow up my Valentine's Day post with the trailer for Ram Gopal Varma's new film Nishabd... It is a story of love between a 60 and 18 year old and the 60 year old is played by none other than Mr Amitabh Bachchan *grin* For those of you who don't know much about Mr Bachchan (and I'm putting the Mr in on purpose because he is often referred to that way, well either like

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-31970134634742606402007-02-14T21:16:00.000+01:002007-08-28T18:59:22.949+02:00

This story totally cracked me up. I know it probably shouldn't - the Hindu groups in the article sound rather like some of our Christian groups in Poland which is not good news (not that the Polish groups aren't hilarious sometimes ;-P). But I think the Indian Hindu groups are much more creative in how they want to combat immoral Western behaviour than their equivalents here in Poland:One Hindu

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-8194618652485986222007-02-12T23:59:00.000+01:002007-03-25T14:40:44.166+02:00

I keep putting off writing anything because I've not written properly for such a long time and I feel I should write a long, clever post about something. The problem is I'm really not feeling clever or up to writing a long post ;-PSo I'll just be boring and write more of the usual. It's not that I don't have anything to write about - on the contrary, you wouldn't believe how many drafts I have on

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-50818172150681744102007-02-01T21:54:00.000+01:002007-02-04T01:36:57.589+01:00

Hopefully now that my heavy schoolwork period has almost finished I'll get back to regularly updating this blog.For now, however, I have some fascinating figure skating news for all my readers (and since it's coming right after my celebrity nudity database post, I think I'm either going to lose or gain readers by giving the impression that this blog is about nudity ;) ).Anyway, it's true - Surya

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-59763810668323671142007-01-15T19:55:00.000+01:002007-02-04T01:38:00.344+01:00

I just found out that something like this exists and somehow it seems so absurd that I had to post it ;-P So here it is, the Celebrity Nudity Database.No pics, videos or anything like that, it's just a database of which films have nude scenes with which actors and lots of people write reviews of the scenes.

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-73719456428917808732007-01-11T01:13:00.000+01:002008-12-11T10:32:35.869+01:00

Yep, I actually have another excuse to try and prove I have a social life. If Senior and Novice Nats weren't enough, there's junior Nats too *grin* (results are here).Anyway, here's one of the pictures that my lovely friends insisted on taking at the end of the day. This one was taken by Bożenka :)Incidently, the ice behind us will be used for the European Championships very soon, so I'll have

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1167954588597815362007-01-05T00:34:00.000+01:002007-01-05T00:49:48.610+01:00

There's been quite a lot of talk about him and his Borat, but I'm really behind and only now have taken notice (I guess my head turned when I heard that a mocumentary by a British comedian is no. 1 at the US box office).Since I'm now spending my time laughing my head off watching him on youtube, here are two clips...Here's Borat interviewed by Jonathan Ross:And here he is as Ali G interviewing

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1167353839144789692006-12-31T23:00:00.000+01:002007-02-14T20:07:06.050+01:00

Just a totally random post as usual ;-P (By the way, I might be updating my blog a little less in January... we'll see...)Anyway, firstly something that should have been in my Christmas post, but I was sent this link a bit late, so I'm including it in my New Year post instead:Secondly, there's lots of end of the year articles, statistics, polls etc. few of which I find interesting ;-P (even the

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Because I think virgin births are a very appropriate subject matter at this time of year, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6196225.stm">here is a BBC story concerning some. Flora's eight babies will be due around Christmas which makes this story even more appropriate ;-P And in case you're wondering Flora is a komodo dragon :D

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1165590216182280242006-12-24T00:00:00.000+01:002007-02-14T20:07:28.053+01:00

So, er, Merry Christmas everyone :DHere's a Christmas card from Greenpeace (it's rather indoctrinating, but I still think it's nice ;-P).This on the other hand is a rather amazing (and ridiculous) show of Christmas lights which my mum sent me a link to:You can read more about it here.And finally I wanted to link to PotterCast #68 (right-click on the link to download the mp3) which has some

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1166806885947762542006-12-22T19:30:00.000+01:002006-12-30T00:12:21.956+01:00

My more detailed skating impressions are in Polish on the walley forum where they belong. This is just a random post which pretends to be about skating, but is actually a very bad attempt at proving that I do have something that you might call a social life and that isn't confined to the internet (something that everyone including me seem to notoriously doubt). Just to keep up appearances though,

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1165704203703872232006-12-10T14:50:00.000+01:002006-12-10T14:57:44.010+01:00

A bit of a follow-up to my previous post. You can read a very geeky article about how google's search engine works here. I didn't read the whole thing (too mathematical), but even reading just the beginning where they explain about page rank I thought was very interesting.My favourite part of the article is the opening:Imagine a library containing 25 billion documents but with no centralized

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1165176387996749272006-12-07T14:10:00.000+01:002006-12-07T14:09:54.556+01:00

Google is always changing and developping (and it has to if it's to stay the biggest in its field). But of course whilst it's testing new things out, it can't afford anything to break. This is where Search Mash comes in. It's the bleeding edge version of google.It's already quite cool, so you might want to try it out. If you want to find out more, check out this article.

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1165335815005022632006-12-06T23:55:00.000+01:002007-09-11T22:46:50.923+02:00

I just watched "Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves" and had a really good laugh. It is a very Hollywoodish film (as in Robin Hood is your classic unflawed action hero), but I was surprised at some of the themes in it to the point of wondering how it's possible that censors and Hollywood producers (in the early 1990s no less) let that through. And then I visited IMDb's trivia page for this film and

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1165150191445050982006-12-03T13:28:00.000+01:002006-12-03T13:49:51.560+01:00

The BBC somehow managed to report three deaths that rather freaked me out in very short succession of each other.Here's the story of Mariesa Weber, who was missing and then finally found dead by her family wedged upside down behind a bookcase in her room.This is about a baby murdered in a microwave.And this is about a boy who was eaten alive by a herd of pigs.At first I read these stories in the

Monikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15140089738161336150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13927481.post-1164834503691311652006-11-29T21:54:00.000+01:002006-11-29T22:16:18.066+01:00

For some reason when I browse the BBC news site I end up reading a lot about developments in medicine (while I don't usually think much about this while I'm doing it, admitting to this now makes me feel as if I'm behaving like some old, grumbly lady - who else would be reading up on these things? ;-P).Anyway, here's two articles that caught my eye (who knows, maybe there are more people like me

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Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz is now president of Warsaw with many saying this is because of the public support she received from Marek Borowski and Aleksander Kwaśniewski (before their support, it was Marcinkiewicz who was leading the polls).I would have probably not bothered with putting this news up onto my blog (I can't say I'm particularly excited about it even if I'm happier that she's president

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