#Telugu Movies 2022

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

Rules (short version: imagine this is the actual UFC):

No weapons

No outside help

No special powers

Let me emphasize this…COMPLETELY DEPOWERED

This is not a fight to the death

There are rules in place, so fighters can’t just go crazy and try to kill their opponent

[indianmovielinks]

A tale of two legendary revolutionaries and their journey far away from home.

[severetravelerhologram-blog]

Full Video: Ee Raathale Song | Radhe Shyam | #Prabhas #PoojaHegde | Justin Prabhakaran | Krishna K

T-Series Telugu presents Ee Raathale full video Song from Telugu #RadheShyam Movie starring Prabhas,Pooja Hegde …

[neengareadynaaready]

This scene was perfection. Ultimate entry scene. Mindblowing.

the tiger

he destroyed his cage

yes

YES

the tiger is out

(his name is Bheem and he is going to fuck you up)

[eowyntheavenger]

What is RRR?? (Please, it looks so good)

Oh my god YES, YEEEESSSSSS, I am so ready to answer this, thank you anon, I feel like I’ve been CHOSEN!!!!!!! Let me tell you about the best movie ever!!!!!!!!!!! it IS so good!

RRR (which stands for Roudram Ranam Rudhiram or Rise Roar Revolt) is an Indian Telugu-language film that came out in 2022 and became India’s third highest grossing film ever because it is THAT amazing.

This movie has EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT. Unbelievable, over-the-top action! British colonizers getting what they deserve! Stunning cinematography, sets and costumes! A soundtrack so incredible you’ll never be able to stop listening to it! Tigers! (They’re CGI, no animals were harmed in the making of the film.)

And, most importantly, it has one of the most compelling and beautiful onscreen romances relationships between two men that I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!! This movie is SO gay I can’t even begin to tell you. Like not officially gay, but GAY. I love it so much. Listen. LISTEN TO ME. The entire cast is great, but in particular the two leads are AMAZING and their chemistry is INSANE. They are magic together.

RRR is set in the 1920s and it’s about two revolutionaries named Komaram Bheem (played by Jr. NTR) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (played by Ram Charan) who never met in real life, but the movie says, what if they did? It explores themes of friendship, betrayal, colonization, racism, revolution, religion, trauma, and… what if two men fell in love while fighting the British? AND FALL IN LOVE THEY DO

I don’t want to spoil anything but like. WATCH IT. It’s three hours long and worth EVERY SECOND. You might wonder, in a three hour movie, are there parts that feel slow? NO. This movie is incapable of dragging, and so much is packed into three hours it’s actually kind of crazy. The story is so good the themes are so good the acting is so good IT MAKES ME FERAL!!! DID I MENTION THE SOUNDTRACK???

I CRY AND SCREAM ABOUT RRR EVERY DAY. This movie is unhinged, and it made me unhinged, and hopefully you will watch it and become unhinged as well <3 thank you and goodnight!

[pariaritzia]

Queerness in Indian Media

↳Film: RRR (2022, Telugu), dir. S.S. RAJAMOULI

RRR is a historical fantasy action drama that follows Bheem (NTR Jr), a Gond warrior who is in search of a Gond girl who was taken away from their home, and Ram (Ram Charan), the British Army officer assigned to catch him. Ram and Bheem meet under false identities and quickly grow closer, but everything is thrown into chaos once the truth is revealed and Ram is forced to choose between his ambitions and his attachment to Bheem.

Long before any white person had ever heard of RRR, queer Indians were cautiously optimistic that there would be something for us in this movie. There was the song Dosti, which felt more romantic than the average song about friendship; Bheem's intense declaration toward Ram in the trailer; Rajamouli explaining that there is no boy-girl romantic song (a staple of masala Indian cinema in any language) because "the romance angle is between these two guys only...bromance...they are the heroes, they are the hero and heroine, and they are the hero and villain"; the lead actors repeatedly questioning interviewers who referred to Jenny and Seetha as Bheem and Ram's love interests; and the writer, V. Vijayendra Prasad, being a huge fan of Salim-Javed movies, particularly Sholay, whose homosocial pairing has been read as queer by queer Indians for decades.

The movie itself gave us more than we could have hoped for from a project made on such a huge scale. Ram and Bheem mimic many of the "hero and heroine" pairings in so many masala movies, doing everything from the "slow-mo staring" for the first meeting, to getting a whole montage song for the progression of their bond, to dressing each other up, to dancing together at a party, to carrying each other, to rescuing each other.

The final rescue scene is perhaps the most telling, as it twists a well-known myth from the Ramayana by putting Ram and Bheem in the position of heroine and hero. It is not Hanuman who tells Rama where to find Sita in Lanka, but instead Seetha who tells Bheem where to find Ram. Bheem, upon finding him, promises to get him out 'even if [he has] to burn this Lanka down to do it'--then promptly carries him on his shoulders the way Hanuman carried Rama, to do away with any suspicions from homophobic audiences.

Those homophobic audiences still made their complaints--a glance at the oldest comments on any clip or behind the scenes video for RRR will make that clear--but they were drowned out by the many fans of the movie. Ultimately, like with any coded movie, the interpretation is up to the individual, but it is undeniable that a number of queer Indians felt that there was a romantic bond between Ram and Bheem. To dismiss that would do a disservice to the many queer people who have, are, and always will work quietly behind the scenes to write our stories, even if they can never say so directly.

[drivingsideways]

2024 Watch List: Movie Edition

After what feels like a decade of not really watching any movies, I had a good movie year- 70 films, which is a little over a movie per week, mostly because I stuck to watching or rewatching older films. Went through most of Wong Kar Wai's filmography, which always leaves me dreamy and slightly perplexed and also a bit annoyed (complimentary); going bonkers over Interview with the Vampire S2 made me fall into French New Wave for a time- a longing to revisit Paris struck me enough to do something about renewing my passport- though naturally, it didn't improve my bank balance enough to think about actually visiting. Anyway, tbh, I was quite surprised that Hiroshima Mon Amour and Masculin Feminin, among others, are really all that. Sixty years later, Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall (2023) would have been my pick for best film at the Oscars- it made me want to return to watching movies in theatre.

Returned to the mothership (UK) via Merchant-Ivory productions and old British tv - Howard's End (1992) which I probably watched for the first time too early in my life, knocked me down and then took me out back and shot me in the head this time around. Maurice (1987) was everything Luca Guadagnino films aren't (y'all were just really flat out lying about Challengers being good); Heat & Dust (1983) made me a little angry, and also pushed me into reading A Passage to India (1924).

Closer home, Kim Jee-woon's weird and wonderful brain gave me Cobweb (2023), which was odd, stylish, darkly funny, and just an incredibly good film to watch some of Korea's top actors doing their thing (and some unexpected things- Jung Woo Sung's cameo, for example). Speaking of the new father (*sniggers meanly*) , I finally got to watch Kim Sung-su's era-defining "youth" film Beat (1997) and John Lee's A Moment to Remember (2004), two films that have defined Jung's career- loved the former, despite the bleak ending, and about half of the latter; it was at its best when it was being unselfconsciously horny- the sharp left into melo territory left me unmoved. It's crazy to me that it's Jung Woo-sung who keeps getting asked to re enact the "If you drink this, we're dating" dialogue for like twenty years, when that scene- and the movie- really belong to the luminous Son Ye jin. Shout out also to director Kim Sung-su's 12:12 The Day/ Seoul Spring(2023), a fictional retelling of the 1979 coup by Chun Doo-hwan which was oddly prescient about Events (TM) of December 2024 to the point where I actually said aloud- wait, I just saw this in a movie.

Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster (2023) is a perfect film, 10/10 no notes; and I wept buckets watching Shoplifters (2018), but found Airdoll (2009) a bit icky, despite a bravura performance from the great Bae Doona. Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers (2023) was another film that had me crying- and it didn't surprise me later to find out that it was based on a Japanese novel by Taichi Yamada. There's just something about how Asian storytelling uses the supernatural that is easily identifiable, even when situated in a different culture.

Moonstruck (1987) turned out to be the rom com of the year for me- just PERFECT, god, imagine Hollywood used to know how to make romances????

Malayalam cinema continues to be the only Indian cinema worth watching (I said what I said): Kaathal: The Core (2023) and Thallumaala (2022) are very different films thematically and stylistically, and give you some idea of the range of what's on offer there, while the bigger Hindi/Telugu cinema industries continue to churn out headache inducing, morally and artistically bankrupt mega-hits. They're not the only ones, of course- why on earth does Emerald Fennell get to make movies, y'all? Saltburn (2023) was trash. Poor Things (2023) was even worse, if that were possible. And yet, I'm told we're going to get treated to MORE of the same. Love yourselves, guys, please.

I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to movie-wise next year, but I do hope to continue rediscovering the joy of cinema. Anyway, what've you all been watching this year? Tell me in the notes/ link me to your posts!

[jezebelgoldstone]

RRR (2022, dir S. S. Rajamouli)

things i am not now and likely never will get over from RRR

DRIFT COMPATIBLE BATTLE COUPLE DETECTED

queer? platonic? queerplatonic? who gives a shit no matter what it was it was AWESOME

Colonialism Is Bad Actually: The Musical

the symbolism. holy shit. every BIT of it was absolutely amazing.

wow all the mains in this movie are just, really hot? my poor lil pan heart had a rough time with this one ngl

the fact that someone (likely many someones) watched this movie about Colonialism Is Bad Actually and said 'you know what let's dub this whole thing into Hindi and English and then not give an option to watch it with the original Telugu dialogue' sure was,,,,,,,,, A Choice

THE MUSIC

by which i mean the actual song-and-dance numbers as well as the like story soundtrack all of it is going on my playlist asap

listen the spirk-behind-glass scene is awful. spock and kirk can't even touch. they can hear. they can see. but they cannot touch. and i in my sweet ignorant bliss thought that was as bad as it could get.

tonight i learned that holding someone in your arms through the bars of their cell is so much worse

I watched it on Netflix but i looked it up on a few other ahem websites and on EVERY SINGLE ONE Telugu audio wasn't even an option.

there was not one single chance to tie things together or make a connection or do a setup/payoff or callback that was not taken. not a single one.

everything about this movie is 100% Extra

in short: this movie is a masterclass

aaaaaand the rest below a cut because WOW i have a lot to say actually

which brings me to the dancing oh my gods. not sure i've ever seen such enthusiastic dancing in anything in my entire life. seriously by the final number i was exhausted just watching them

in general, this movie is: stunning

"RAM." "BHEEM." "SEETHA." IT'S ABOUT THE SYMBOLISM.

also this was kinda hilarious because i watched it in hindi [the least disorienting option] and they kept SAYING "ram" but in the subs it was always fuckin RAJU so like. again with the Choices. like seriously what was the thought process there. WAS there a thought process.

FIRE. WATER. STORY. I JUST. I. HELP ME.

i ADORED jenny. with my whole entire heart. she is one of the very BEST examples of Ignorance Is A Privilege and also At What Point Does Ignorance Become Malicious that i have ever ever seen. i loooooooooved it. i mean i hated it a whole lot while it was happening but also i am SO GLAD that now rather than trying to explain all of this to people i can just tell them to watch this movie and then sit them down and be like, so what are your thoughts on jenny's culpability in literally everything?

oh and how you can be a kind person and still do atrocities! like jenny is so sweet and so kind and you just like her so much and yet. and yet.

t h e s y m b o l i s m

i cannot remember the last time i saw a movie so visually stunning. the cinematography is breathtaking. pause on just about any random frame and it could be a movie poster or hanging in an art gallery or what have you.

they also dubbed all the lines that were actually in english? i mean i get it for the characters who spent most of the movie speaking Telugu because you'd need their voices to stay the same through the whole movie yeah fine whatever. but like. they dubbed all the ENGLISH characters, too? like literally dubbed them from english into english??? the dialogue matched their mouths except the timing was veeeery sliiiiiiiightly off but it SOUNDED really obviously dubbed??? Y THO???

HOLY SHIT THE FIGHT SCENES OH MY GODS

Malli. Malli honey i love you. i'm just realizing i don't know if that's your actual name gods damn it. but whatever your name is child i love you.

and did i mention that everyone in this movie is beautiful? like. seriously. Ram and Bheem especially holy SHIT.

Physics Does Not Work Like That And I Do Not Care Because That Was AWESOME: The Musical

oooohhhhh they re-recorded and dubbed the fucking SONGS too. i am so pissed about this y'all i can't even tell you.

oh i want to do a whole entire post that's even longer than this one about the symbolism. hell i could probably do a whole entire post just on the fire/water symbolism even without everything else. It was AMAZING.

okay ram is fire and bheem is water and ram's people go to a valley on the shores of a river and the river is in literally every shot of the village and just ram BEING fire but water being a place of HOME and SAFETY for ram

i'm not crying shut up

MALLI AND HER MOTHER TRY TO REACH EACH OTHER BUT THEY CANNOT TOUCH THROUGH THE GLASS

BHEEM AND MALLI HOLD EACH OTHER THROUGH THE BARS OF HER CONFINEMENT AND HE HAS TO LET GO AND LEAVE HER

BHEEM AND RAM HOLD EACH OTHER THROUGH THE BARS OF HIS CONFINEMENT AND BHEEM RIPS THE DOOR RIGHT OFF

ooooooohhhhhhh and people holding hands right before they part. oh that hurts. all of those hurt so bad.

how every single time people held hands when they parted they always held on till the last possible second EXCEPT FOR RAM'S MOM.

she lifts her hand away from him and then pulls back and it was devastating

Predators Do Not Work Like That But I Do Not Care Because That Was Awesome And Also They Ate A Bunch Of Colonizing Cops: Queercoded Edition (ACAB)

bheem with his arms spread and rope or chains around his wrists or in his hands. i just. the way it flipped back and forth from 'he has the power' to 'he is helpless' to 'he should be helpless and isn't' was just. breathtaking.

AND THEN. AND THEN RAM. CHAINED UP THE SAME WAY. DOING THE SAME GODDAMN THING AND USING THE FACT THAT HE'S CHAINED UP FOR HIS OWN FUCKING PURPOSES BECAUSE HE SAW BHEEM DO IT FIRST DON'T TOUCH ME

okay listen this movie would've been good no matter what but like. they really are just SO beautiful. and. when ram. with like the long hair. and. beard. and like. you know? like. his. his hair. his general. everything. um.

literally at the most emotionally inappropriate moment i literally thought about that whole 'i saw a man so beautiful i started crying' thing and like that almost literally happened literally

Why There Can't Be Any Such Thing As Good Cops: The Romance (ACAB)

and like here's the thing i'm not sure i would've even NOTICED this had it not been for the linguistic chauvinism with the audio and everything but like both of them were hindu and a lot of the symbolism though awesome was also really strongly hindu and i just i don't know nearly enough about hindutva to have any kind of opinion BUT i also feel like maaaaaaaybe there was something a little uncomfy about some of this

oh no wait the suspenders dance. that might've actually been the best part. yeah.

oh all the british actors did SUCH a good job being so eminently punchable

throw cheetahs at each other! and snakes! somehow have upper body strength greater than the force exerted by a 800+ lb tiger lunging! throw those motorcycles! punch through those walls without breaking your fingers! use herbal paste to heal broken bones in a matter of a minutes! break solid stone with nothing but the strength of your shoulders and gay love! i am so here for all of this!!!

Throw Rocks Marble Pillars Live Tigers Cops At Cops: The Movie (ACAB)

i love that jenny felt bad for the poor little girl who got kidnapped enslaved and imprisoned so she. bought her a dress and a toy.

you know, to make her feel better about the whole 'being kidnapped enslaved and imprisoned' thing.

instead of doing, i don't know know, literally anything else. like even just saying to her aunt 'hey this makes me sad' or something. #solidarity.

the violence was violent and the romance was sweet

okay so during the fight at the midpoint like i know that by the end of it ram and bheem are literal fire and water BUT ALSO. Ram enters the scene in a flaming carriage and from that point forward the fountain is in pretty much every shot of bheem. just sayin.

love that lachu (or whatever his name really is) told ram that there was no cure. like yes! you go man! ram may be so beautiful that in forty minutes i'm going to be in tears but that's no reason to tell a cop the truth about anything! you lie to that cop man!

A BRITISH SOLDIER HIT LOKI IN THE HEAD WITH A BRANCH AND THEN STOLE MALLI AWAY

BHEEM HIT RAM IN THE HEAD WITH A BRANCH AND THEN STOLE MALLI AWAY

i know other people got hit in the head with tree branches too but STILL

honestly i really like that ram and bheem were, well, ram and bheem. but i mean im glad they weren't like ram and lakshman or bheem and arjun or something. not even just because that would've been brotherly like i'm glad they weren't arjun and krishna or something either. i liked that their names weren't from the same story. i liked it better this way and i can't even articulate why.

i am never ever ever going to get over the progression of part of bheem's introduction being something going wrong and him holding two ropes (he has all the power) with his arms spread and that being used to show us how incredibly strong he is -> something going wrong and bheem with ropes around his wrists (he shouldn't have any power at all) holding his arms spread and that being used to show how incredibly strong he is in a completely different way

like every time there were ropes or chains in bheem's hands or around his wrists it meant something, and it was a beat in the rhythm of a discernable arc, but now i can't remember all of them gdi

oooohhhhh there was SO much more symbolism i wanted to talk about but it's so late that i have a headache and this post is so long my computer's lagging like two sentences behind so i should stop and go to bed. sigh.

just go watch this movie, okay? pleae? I cannot IMAGINE who would've read this whole thing,m but if you did, just watch it, all rigth? (and if you happen to know of any site - ANY site - where i can watch it in FUKIN TELUGU kindly drop a link please and thank)

[reyoftarth]

Jr NTR & Ram Charan Movie Master list for US viewers

I've been attempting to watch all of Tarak and Charan's movies but some of them have been difficult to find with English subtitles, so I put together this list for myself and anyone else who wants to access their movies with English subs in the US!

If you haven’t seen RRR yet, you can watch the original Telugu version here (thank you @charcubed !!), on Einthusan.tv or ZEE5, and the Hindi version on Netflix.

*movies with a question mark (❓) next to them are ones I haven't been able to find. Let me know if you have more luck or if I am missing anything and I'll update this list!

**Updated as of 1/30/25

***I found this list on IMDB so some of the titles may be wrong, I tried to add alternate titles if found.

Jr. NTR

Ramayanam (1996) - buy/rent on Amazon

Ninnu Choodalani (2001) - ❓

Student No. 1 (2001) - subbed and archived by @stanleykubricks at this link

Subbu (2001) - ❓

Aadi/Aadhi (2002) - ❓

Allari Ramudu (2002) - ❓

Naaga (2003) - ❓

Simhadri (2003) - buy/rent on Amazon

Andhrawala (2004) - with a premium subscription on Aha

Samba (2004) - Odia version available with a subscription on ZEE5

Narasimhudu (2005) - Einthusan

Naa Alludu (2005) - Einthusan & YouTube

Ashok (2006) - Einthusan

Rakhi/Rakhee (2006) - buy/rent on YouTube

Thief of Yama/Yamadonga (2007) - Einthusan, YouTube & buy/rent on Amazon

Adhurs (2010) - Einthusan & YouTube

Kantri (2008) - Einthusan

Brindaavanam (2010) - Einthusan, with a subscription on SunNXT or buy/rent on Amazon

Sakthi/Shakti (2011) - Einthusan & YouTube

Oosravelli (2011) - Einthusan

Dhammu (2012) - Einthusan & with a subscription on ZEE5

Baadshah (2013) - Einthusan, YouTube & buy/rent on Amazon

Ramayya Vastavayya (2013) - Einthusan, Netflix & buy/rent on Amazon

Rabhasa (2014) - Einthusan & YouTube

Temper (2015) - Einthusan

To Father with Love/Nannaku Prematho (2016) - Buy/rent on Amazon

Janatha Garage (2016) - Einthusan & YouTube

Jai Lava Kusa (2017) - Telugu version with a subscription on SunNXT & Hindi version with a subscription on ZEE5

Aravindha Sametha Veera Raghava (2018) - Einthusan & buy/rent on Amazon

Ram Charan

Cirutha (2007) -  Einthusan, YouTube, & with a subscription on ZEE5

Magadheera (2009) - Einthusan

Orange (2010) - Einthusan & YouTube

Rachcha/Racha (2012) - Einthusan

Naayak (2013) - Einthusan, with a subscription on SunNXT & buy/rent on Amazon

Zanjeer (2013) - Einthusan & with a subscription on ZEE5

Toofan/Thoofan (2013) - ❓ Telugu version of Zanjeer

Yevadu (2014) - Einthusan & Netflix

Govindudu Andari Vaadele (2014) - Einthusan & buy/rent on Amazon

Bruce Lee The Fighter (2015) - Einthusan

Dhruva (2016) - DM me! IMDB says Amazon but that brings you to a 2020 movie with the same name.

Rangasthalam 1985 (2018) - with a subscription on Einthusan & Amazon Prime

Viaya Vidheya Rama (2019) - Einthusan & buy/rent on Amazon

Acharya (2022) - Einthusan & Amazon Prime

[myrna-nora]

2024: Movies

January 1. Yashoda (2022) [India: Telugu] 2. Pardes (1997) [India: Hindi] February March 3. Murder Mubarak (2024) [India: Hindi] 4. Mere Desh Ki Dharti (2022) [India: Hindi] 5. The Boys in the Boat (2023) [US] April 6. Bobby (1973) [India: Hindi] 7. Alone (2020) [US] 8. Chhalaang (2020) [India: Hindi] 9. The Nice Guys (2016) [US] 10. Ministry of Fear (1944) [US] May 11. Laapataa Ladies (2023) [India: Hindi] 12. Fear in the Night (1972) [UK] 13. Taste of Fear (1961) [UK] 14. Kaun Sachcha Kaun Jhootha (1997) [India: Hindi] 15. Ghulam-E-Musthafa (1997) [India: Hindi] 16. Twisted Nerve (1968) [UK] June 17. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) [US] 18. Madgaon Express (2024) [India: Hindi] 19. Maniac (1963) [UK] 20. Nightmare (1964) [UK] July 21. Hysteria (1965) [UK] 22. Daddy's Home (2015) [US] 23. Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) [US] 24. Maharaj (2024) [India: Hindi] 25. Maharaja (2024) [India: Tamil] August 26. Dune: Part Two (2024) [US] 27. Srikanth (2024) [India: Hindi] 28. Anweshippin Kandethum (2024) [India: Malayalam] 29. 12th Fail (2023) [India: Hindi] 30. Haseen Dillruba (2021) [India: Hindi] 31. Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba (2024) [India: Hindi] September 32. Kalki 2898-AD (2024) [India: Telugu] 33. The Deliverance (2024) [US] 34. Hit Man (2023) [US] October 35. Pad Man (2018) [India: Hindi] 36. Damsel (2024) [US] November 37. The Buckingham Murders (2023) [India: English, Hindi] 38. Don't Move (2024) [US] December 39. Jules (2023) [US] 40. The Inheritance (2024) [US] 41. Blue Ruin (2013) [US] 42. Monkey Man (2024) [US] 43. Missing (2023) [US] yearly list movies

[letamreviews]

Top of 2022

With 19 films watched and 2 favorited from 2022, I composed a list of my top. To coincide with 2019′s pure happenstance, the list is ‘almost’ an exact third (7) of the total films watched. Anything seen after the end of February, 2023, isn’t included (with 1 exception).

Honorable Mentions: Infernal Affairs remastered trilogy (2002 - 2003), Skinamarink, Vesper, TÁR Exception: Aranock’s Queer Relativity Why’s this so late? Yes, it is late.

Blind Rating is how worthwhile the film is watching “blind” (or knowing nothing). The scale is 1 (worth it) to 5 (you must). ‘Eh is essentially a 0.5.

1. Queer Relativity | Aranock (Canada)

Saw on YouTube in early March twice and listened to atleast once. i don’t even know (i guess: i fucking love it). Y’all, this movie fucked me up. Had to pause it so many times during first viewing this shit took me back so much. fuck Also, i fucking hate it. Blind Rating: 0.5/5 | film | Teaser | Description:

Hope you all enjoy my film on queer temporalities, language, and journey of discovering self

2. RRR (India)

Saw on Netflix in Hindi with English subtitles and again in theatre in Telugu with English subs. i fucking love it. Best (official) movie of the year. Don’t waste my time. Blind Rating: 1/5 Thoughts

3. Please Baby Please (USA)

Saw at Sie FilmCenter. i really like it (? tier). Holy fucking shit, this movie. lul Definitely put some people in the mood. Thoughts Quickie

4. Avatar: The Way of Water (USA)

Saw at Hawkins Theatres in 3D HFR and again at AMC Theatres in Real 3D. i really like it (mid tier?). Thoughts 1 & 2 Quickie

5. Everything Everywhere All at Once (USA)

Saw in theatre. i really like it (mid tier?). Y’all, I saw this in a theatre with 2-3 other dudes and we all bawled during the same scene. Shit was great. Thoughts Blind Rating: 0.5/5

6. Three Thousand Years of Longing (Australia & USA)

Saw at Hawkins Theatres. i really like it (high tier). Did not expect to enjoy it so much. Glad I went (and disregarded certain reviews). Thoughts

7. Nope (USA)

Saw at Harkins Theatres and again in VR (don’t ask). i really like it (mid tier?). Really enjoyed the entirety of it, especially as a story of two siblings. While I do see this as the director changing the horror genre (again? 🤔), I’m now wondering how much of it already exists in widely unknown indie films. 😐 (shout-out to LambHoot’s “The Resident Evil they keep Remaking...” video) Thoughts 1 & 2 Blind Rating: 1/5

[severetravelerhologram-blog]

Full Video: Ninnele Song | Radhe Shyam | Prabhas,Pooja Hegde | Justin Prabhakaran | Krishna K

T-Series Telugu presents, Ninnele full Video Song from New Telugu #RadheShyam Movie starring Prabhas,Pooja Hegde …

[dear-indies]

Ooh could you name five movies and or tv shows that you want people to see that include disabled characters, preferably played by disabled actors. Pleaseeee i need more inspiration for resource making.

Because I mentioned disabled shows by disabled people:

Ryan O'Connell (1986) - he has cerebral palsy and is gay, adapted his memoir into a series called Special (2019-2020) according to IMDb he's in 16 episodes.

Josh Thomas (1987) - is Autistic, has ADHD, and is gay, is in Everything's Gonna Be Okay (2020-2021) which he's also an executive producer on, and according to IMDb he's in 20 episodes and also Please Like Me (2013-2016) 23 episodes!

Tim Renkow (1989) Mexican Jewish, he co-wrote Jerk (2019-2021) and according to IMDb he's in 8 episodes.

Unfortunately, there are not many disabled media by disabled writers but I can list disabled actors who have notable tv roles:

Daryl Mitchell (1965) African-American - is paraplegic - is in Fear the Walking Dead (2018-2023) and according to IMDb he's in 21 episodes, also NCIS: New Orleans (2014-2021) and according to IMDb he's in 143 episodes.

Selene Luna (1971) Mexican - has dwarfism, is in Mayans M.C. (2022) and according to IMDb she's in 5 episodes.

Cherylee Houston (1974) - has Hypermobility Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, is in Coronation Street (2010-2023) and according to IMDb she's in 762 episodes.

Callan Mulvey (1975) ¼ Maori, ¾ Scottish - is blind in one eye, has been in a lot of things including Last King of the Cross (2023) according to IMDb he's in 10 episodes, Firebite (2021-2022) 8 episodes, Till Death (2021), Mystery Road (2020) 6 episodes.

Kurt Yaeger (1977) - is a leg amputee, is Another Life (2021) according to IMDb he's in 8 episodes.

Rana Daggubati (1984) Telugu Indian - is blind in one eye, is in Rana Naidu (2023) and according to IMDb he's in 10 episodes and according to IMDb he's in 10 episodes.

Savannah Welch (1984) - is paraplegic, is in Titans (2021) and according to IMDb she's in 10 episodes, also The Good Doctor (2022-2023) and according to IMDb she's in 8 episodes.

Ali Stroker (1987) - is paraplegic and bisexual - is in Echos (2022) and according to IMDb she's in 7 episodes, Only Murders in the Building (2021-2022) 4 episodes and Ozark (2022) 7 episodes.

Madison Ferris (1992) - has muscular dystrophy, is in Panic (2021) and according to IMDb he's in 5 episodes.

Eric Graise (1990) African-American - is a bilateral amputee, is in Black Mafia Family (2023) and according to IMDb he's in 3 episodes and Step UP: High Water (2018-2022) 29 episodes and Locke & Key (2020-2022) 9 episodes.

Lauren “Lolo” Spencer (?) African-American - has ALS, is in The Sex Lives of College Girls (2020-2021) and according to IMDb she's in 13 episodes.

Ben Mehl (?) - is blind, is in You (2021) and according to IMDb he's in 9 episodes.

Danielle Perez (?) Afro-Dominican, is a double lower leg amputee and is queer, is in a bunch of short things somebody could make a mini pack of!

Gloria May Eshkibok (?) Mohawk, Ottawa, Irish, French - is Two-Spirit (she/her) and has one eye - is in OChiSkwaCho (2018).

Matthew Jeffers (?) - has dwarfism, is in New Amsterdam (2018-2023) and according to IMDb he's in 32 episodes.

and then more suggestions from the amazing @olivaraofrph: Everything's Gonna Be Okay - has Kayla Cromer (an Autistic actress) and Not Dead Yet - has Rick Glassman (an Autistic actor) playing an Autistic character.

Not for faceclaim recommendations but I highly recommend everybody watches Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution too! As always, I cannot limit myself to five!

Let me know if you'd like more specific suggestions!

And I have a masterlist of disabled faceclaims here too!

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Happy Birthday #KamalHaasan𓃵 (07/11)

Originally named Parthasarathy Srinivasan, Kamal Haasan was born on November 7, 1954, and has established himself as a versatile force in the Indian film industry. Primarily associated with Tamil cinema, his contributions span across acting, filmmaking, scriptwriting, playback singing, television hosting, and political engagement, alongside social activism. His career, adorned with a wide array of roles in Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, and Bengali movies, underscores his reputation as one of the Indian cinema's most esteemed actors. Haasan has been a pioneer in the Indian film industry, known for bringing in innovative technologies and makeup techniques.

Accumulating a vast collection of awards, Haasan's accolades include Four National Film Awards, Nine Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, and numerous others, alongside prestigious recognitions like the Kalaimamani, the Padma Shri, the Padma Bhushan, and France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Haasan's acting journey began as a child artist in the 1960 film "Kalathur Kannamma," which earned him the President's Gold Medal. He gained stardom with his performance in "Apoorva Raagangal" (1975) as a lead actor. His role in "Moondram Pirai" (1982) fetched him his first National Film Award. He continued to garner critical acclaim with performances in films such as "Sagara Sangamam" and "Nayakan". Haasan is also recognized for his portrayals in "Pushpaka Vimana", "Thevar Magan", "Indian", and "Hey Ram", showcasing his expansive range. His role in "Dasavathaaram" where he played ten different characters, and his recent work in "Vikram" (2022) are notable. Haasan's production company, Raaj Kamal Films International, stands behind many of his projects.