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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 9h

Movie Rule: the dude who says a Yakshi can’t touch him is the first one the Yakshi goes after.

Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 6d

My favourite reddit comment about the upcoming Patriot movie: "Looks dope, will this be Harikrishnans in spy universe?" (One can only dream). #DesiWatch www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Se...

Patriot Malayalam Teaser | Mammootty | Mohanlal | Mahesh Narayanan | Anto Joseph

YouTube video by Anto Joseph Film Company

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 8d

Guelph lies directly adjacent to the Haldimand Tract and is part of a long-established traditional hunting ground for the Six Nations of the Grand River. Many First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples who have come from across Turtle Island call Guelph home today.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 8d

My Land Acknowledgement: This place we call Guelph has served as traditional lands and a place of refuge for many peoples over time, but more specifically the Attiwonderonk, and the Haudenosaunee. This land is held as the treaty lands and territory with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 8d

Today is the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. (BTW: if you want an orange shirt, make sure you buy it from a legitimate source)

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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2025: Message from Minister Gull-Masty

YouTube video by GCIndigenous

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 12d

Bubbling up before having to disappear again (busy busy), but if you loved Sandy Master as the villain in Lokah, then this is for you. #DesiWatch

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Sandy Master Mass Performance | Red Giant - 15 year in Cinema | Kalaignar TV

YouTube video by Kalaignar TV

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 18d

Yes! Incredibly well deserved!

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Ciné Skope @cineskope.bsky.social · 21d

🎆NOUVELLE VIDÉO🎆

Pour la reprise de la chaîne, on va parler...CINÉMA INDIEN !

Aujourd'hui on s'intéresse à la trajectoire hors du commun de la plus grande superstar de l'histoire de Kollywood.

🎦 youtu.be/SikYDvtxvwU?... 🎦

Merci d'avance pour les partages 🙏🙏🙏

Miniature de la vidéo : la silhouette dans l'ombre d'un acteur avec la mention "superstar à 75 ans".

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 23d

And I can't wait until my grandkids are old enough to read Doyle's books. I just know they'll love them, too.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 23d

Sadly, I just couldn't get past all the publication rejection, and I gave up. Do I wish I'd been a different person, who could have ignored and kept going? Sometimes. But I'll never forget the thrill of talking to my favourite author about writing for children.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 23d

Doyle was generous with his time, and he loved my manuscript. Said he wouldn't change a thing. Told me why. Told me to keep writing, and keep trying. He was as wonderful a human being as he was a writer.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 23d

I persevered for a while. And I went to a conference where we could submit a manuscript and get feedback from an author. We didn't know who, we found out when we turned out. Me? I got Brian Doyle. I was both thrilled and terrified. I shouldn't have been terrified.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 23d

A story, if you will: I was also, back then, an aspiring writer for children, and I took classes and workshops and read my stories and got the best kind of rejections for them (the ones where they tell you they like it but it doesn't fit for them at the moment). Me, I just felt rejection.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 23d

It makes me so sad that Brian Doyle is not celebrated more. As a reader, as a teacher, as a teacher-librarian, I loved his books, and loved sharing them with students. A brilliant writer. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/bria...

Canton: Brian Doyle, at 90, remains 'one of the greatest writers of books for children that Canada has ever seen'

The Ottawa-area writer changed lives with his humane and sensitively expressed desire to understand what it means to be a child.

ottawacitizen.com

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 24d

I knew Mirai was releasing, and a bit about it, but it hasn’t had a lot of attention, I think.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 24d

The best thing about Coolie was Upendra, who got a terrific entrance and just was on fire when he was on screen. The rest was just exhausting.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 26d

Hahahahahahaha.

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I like how she just took care of the bodies instead of asking Naslen to build a machine to turn them into dust

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 26d

It's Friday, yes? (It's been Yet Another Week). But here are my #Letterboxd #LastFourWatched #DesiWatch #Filmsky

Posters for four films from left to right: Coolie, Unnaipol Oruvan, 55, KPop Demon Hunters.

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Rajani Thindiath (Ruhj-ni) @rajanithindiath.bsky.social · 26d

This. More value for writing & thought processes that spark change.
A layered interview (with spoilers) with the director & writers of #Lokah a Malayalam superhero film with superb worldbuilding + characterization rooted in folklore in a modern, believable world.
#IndianCinema #moviesky #Desiwatch

Dominic Arun, Santhy Balachandran Interview With Baradwaj Rangan | Lights Camera Analysis | Part 1

YouTube video by Galatta Plus

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 28d

I’d suggest you dodged a bullet re: Param Sundari ;-). Lokah is doing brilliantly. I wish there were more screenings near me, I’d so go again.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 28d

I'm actually crossing my fingers for that so hard, I really hope it does it!

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 28d

This is, apparently, a reasonably reliable source for box office info, and today the film has tipped just over 200 crores. www.sacnilk.com/movie/Lokah_...

Lokah: Chapter 1 - Chandra - Sacnilk

Lokah: Chapter 1 - Chandra movie info directer actor actress producer Music Directer Production Company Distribution Company box office collection

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 28d

I am both flabbergasted and delighted. I really liked the film, but I absolutely did not expect to see it take off like this. But I'm so tickled to see a woman-led film burn up the box office. Credit to AB George for the info. #DesiWatch

A photo of a woman dressed in black and red, holding a weapon. The text reads: Mollywood's second fastest 200 crores grosser only behind Empuraan. 200 crores gross collection and counting. Credit: AB George

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 29d

There was also an Odiyan in the film, subtitled as "shape-shifter" -- and there is even more lore around odiyan as well.

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Totally Filmi 🌻 @totallyfilmi.bsky.social · 29d

I wouldn't say Hinduism. But folklore, yes, and the next film will be about the Chattan (subtitle: Goblin) played by Tovino Thomas. And also issues of caste. This is a pretty good read: www.thenewsminute.com/flix/the-man...

The many lives of Neeli: How Lokah strikingly reimagines Kerala's woman folklore icon

This article contains spoilers for the film ‘Lokah Chapter One: Chandra’.It is late at night. A lone man walks along a narrow village road, the fields of paddy

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