Talkie Tuesday: Mohenjo Daro

 

"To fight injustice is justice itself."

 

Hello everyone!

 

We continue - or we return, depending on how you look at it - to the Bollywood obsession that's currently happening with me.

 

And I know it's probably unbearable. I'm sorry!

 

But here we are, and here we'll stay for the foreseeable future.

 

... or at least, until I run out of good movies to watch, I suppose.

 

Right now, for tonight, we're taking a look at a movie which features a young man, a farmer, dreaming and yearning for something beyond his narrow horizon, but his uncle won't let him spread his wings to fly further than what he knows.

 

If you think this is Star Wars, you'd be wrong, although the premise is wildly similar - almost identical.

 

In fact, this is a 2016 BC kind of story, with no Death Star or Darth Vader in sight. This is Mohenjo Daro.

 

Tome Thursday: Hunting Harkonnens

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome back to the galaxy that's not really all that far away, but is definitely a ways away in the future, so to speak.

 

I've finally started on the proper journey of this, to chew my way through everything leading up to Dune (and one can hope, beyond).

 

Thus, if you know me, then you'll know I HAVE to begin at the beginning.

 

I would have done so pre-reading Dune, too, but I got swept away and I really wanted to see what the written stuff was all about after watching the two movies, so, here I am.

 

Where it all should have started.

 

Without further yapping from me, let's jump right into it: we're Hunting Harkonnens!

 

Talkie Tuesday: Born of Hope

 

"There is our Hope."

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm finally back, now that the weather's changed a little and the heat has FINALLY dropped some.

 

Man it's like someone had to open a valve somewhere to let the pressure out and have it dissipate into the ether. Not that it's completely changed tunes of course, but it's definitely better than it was before in any event.

 

One can breathe, at least!

 

So I can sit and type on the computer without melting or having some of the components melt, which is basically all that I wanted.

 

Which means that without further ado, we're heading straight back to Middle-Earth with the fans, to another fan-made movie that's definitely made it into the top favourites since its release, because it tells the story right out of the Appendices, and tells it correctly, too, unlike some adaptations nowadays.

 

We head into the tale of Born of Hope.

 

Tome Thursday: Veiled Magic

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome back to the world of Teutonica.

 

I'm slowly chipping away at this series and making it through the books one by one - but that's the best way to do it, in my opinion.

 

If you rush anything, then the job's going to be botched no matter how much you want it not to be!

 

So here I am, with the continuation of His Name Was Augustin.

 

This one's a shorter story compared to the big books, and is actually a bonus to them all since it involves neither time travel nor Swanie, actually.

 

This one's about Vreni, Swanie's best friend in the whole world, and I have to say that I LOVE ME SOME VRENI. She's adorable, she has a heart of gold even though she could have been a total rich classicist, and she's got a really great story to boot.

 

Which means we'll stop wasting time and read it in Veiled Magic.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Wish

 

"Just keep wishing."

 

Hello everyone!

 

In a divergence from my current Bollywood obsession, I decided I wanted to watch something a little less complicated for once.

 

I mean, listen, we all (or mostly all) love Disney, but they don't really write crime stories that make you puzzle your head to figure out what's what, let's be real here.

 

So to Disney I went, and browsed a little bit to figure out which movie I hadn't yet seen.

 

See, as a Disney kid, I've grown up watching this stuff. It's my jam, though I'll admit that some of the recent ones don't float my boat (looking at you, the movie I won't even name but only link).

 

Finding one that sounded promising and which I hadn't seen prior to this past weekend, I sat down and watched it.

 

Jury's out on the liking bit, but I can honestly say I didn't quite get it ALL in Wish.

 

Tome Thursday: Dune

 

Hello everyone!

 

In a break from my Bollywood obsession (yes, it's actually an obsession at this point, oops, can't help it!) we're taking a look at a book I SHOULD have read a long while ago.

 

I might have, even, if not for the fact that I needed to be in the right mood for it.

 

Also, I'm fairly certain that it was actually the better option for me to watch the movies first before tackling the book itself, because I understood a lot more going in that way than I possibly would have otherwise.

 

Or, maybe I'm just overthinking everything.

 

In any event! Let's not waste any more time.

 

Because we have to travel far, far into the future, to a point when there are no more computers, but there's definitely a whole lot of reasons for a holy war.

 

And plenty more reasons to wonder how it all goes down, in Dune.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Jodhaa Akbar

 

"The goal was clear, but the path was unknown."

 

Hello everyone!

 

I know, I know, you're probably getting sick of me by now with these.

 

I wish I'd be capable of apologizing but, I'm honestly REALLY enjoying my foray into Indian cinema, so why would I stop?

 

Although I'll admit it takes some serious stamina. This thing I'm reviewing tonight is over three and a half hours long! That's like ... a lot, compared to most movies nowadays haha.

 

But that said, I actually didn't have that much trouble sitting and watching it through in one go, because apparently, my attention span can and will adapt to what it needs, once I'm interested enough for that to happen that is.

 

So let's not waste too many introductory words, then. We have a lot of ground to cover.

 

Instead, let's travel back in time to roughly 16th century India, in a time when religious upheaval seemed to be rather prevalent. Let's go back and see Jodhaa Akbar.