Tag: actress

  • Work it, Tabu! Work those shoes~

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    Well, this week has been an active Tabu week~ first, news that Rekha had backed out of Abhishek Kapoor’s Great Expectations adaptation, Fitoor, and having Tabu land on the gig. Then the hindi Drishyam team teased a shot of Tabu in cop get-up in prep for the release of the trailer (my gosh, the movie promotion machine these days). I think they also announced Manoj Bajpayee’s and Tabu’s upcoming film Missing [1], while putting in on the table that Tabu will be playing Katrina Kaif’s sister in Fitoor and not a crazy aunt. Ha, they look nothing alike. Reminds me of Chinese movie-casting.

    Phew. I think I covered my basis.

    Tabu is going to eat people alive on that set. I know Cuaron’s version is not very popular, but I love it.

  • Missed these Yu Aoi Nov’14 Interviews

    Oh, man~ my Japanese has gotten so bad. Or at least, my non-food related Japanese. I ran into these interviews Yu-chan did to promote the release of her last interview-PB Yu Diary book, which includes the nugget that she almost quit acting at age 23. But please, feel free to guide me through all these chunks of text.

    The other interview includes info on the process of making the book… as well as these three photos of her.

    — August 20th 2015 —

    Ran into more shots of this shoot [1][2].

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  • Vidya Chaplin for June’15 Filmfare

    I’ll champion anything Vidya does. This goes hand in hand with her Mother India cover!

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  • Furiosa: Charlize Theron You Badass You

    Yes!

    FURY ROAD

    Super spoiler free review of Mad Max: Fury Road available.

    Furia en el Camino also available.

  • Bless your Luna Papa Hearts~

    These are by far the best stills I’ve found of the film- I don’t know how it happened, but I found them in this Cineplex Taiwanese blog. They are a thing of beauty, and I’ve learned my lesson… so I’m taking and re-posting. I’ve lost many a-movie-still for not keeping an archive. They even got an amazing quality of -possibly- my favorite scene in the movie~

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    Oh, thank you, bless their hearts. Does anybody know if there’s any plans for a re-release of the film in Bluray (with English subtitles) because I would die. I WOULD DIE.

  • Look at that Face: Kim Ah-Joong

    So for prep of a movie review, I finally watched 200 Pounds of Beauty and I really was struck by how beautiful Kim Ah-Joong’s face was. I don’t know if it was the way the movie was shot, but this photo of her captured that same feeling I got.

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  • Yu Aoi for a Sumo Isenoumi Stable Visit~

    Yu-chan doesn’t get much social media play, but she showed up in (Twitter via) the Facebook page of the Isenoumi Sumo Stable (伊勢ノ海部屋) (WHY is it called a stable?). It takes me back to that Glee Japan commercial, ne?

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  • It’s As Good As Dancing Queen

    That is all, Toni~

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    Since I’ve met you and moved to Sydney… I haven’t listened to one ABBA song. It’s because now my life’s as good as an ABBA song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.

  • I’m Winging Zhao Wei’s Tiger Mom

    … and you gotta wing it like a ninja with all these geoblocking business.

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    Actually- I don’t think Tiger Moms would approve of winging something, but Chinese skills would need to be improved forcefully because Tiger Mom (虎妈猫爸) ain’t getting subbed nor fansubbed alright, because that’s how C-fans deal. You want to enjoy all these fancy movies, cdramas and cmusic, you better learn Chinese alright~

    I feel Zhao Wei encouraging claps.

  • Bollywood’s Modern 90s Throwback with Dum Laga Ke Haisha

    I think… in contrast to last year, I might be liking Dum Laga Ke Haisha much better than movies like 2 States or Queen. It’s modern like those two dealing with issues, it’s got as strong acting (though Queen had the disadvantage of foreign acting, which always tends to be the weakest link anywhere in the world), but it’s much fresher in style with its honest 90s Bollywood throwback. And thank you gods that there was no bumping electro-dance disco song.

    It’ll need to simmer, but it looks good for YRF at the moment.