2016 Midyear Review

In this episode we summarize the highlights and lowlights of the year’s films so far and look ahead to the second half of 2016.

Show Notes:

· Matt on Letterboxd (https://letterboxd.com/mattbowes/)

· Thank you for all of the kind words, we appreciate them so much

· Erin was on the Split Screen podcast (http://www.blankpagebeatdown.com/split-screen-podcast-episode-13-bollywood-director-remakes-own-movie-in-hollywood/)

· We’re sad to have lost Anton Yelchin (go see Green Room)

· Wazir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wazir_(film))

· Kathy Gibson’s review (https://accessbollywood.net/2016/01/08/movie-review-wazir-2016/)

· Airlift (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airlift_(film))

· Mastizaade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastizaade)

· Fitoor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitoor)

· “Pashmina” (https://youtu.be/uxTXp0-iZrY) Note: this dance is not in the film

· Katrina Kaif’s red hair (http://www.indicine.com/img/2015/05/Katrina-Kaif-at-Cannes-2015.jpg)

· Neerja (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neerja)

· Sonam Kapoor at Cannes (http://im.rediff.com/movies/2016/may/16sonam-kapoor2.jpg)

· Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapoor%26Sons))

· Highest Grossing Indie Films of 2016 (http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/the-20-highest-grossing-indies-of-2016-a-running-list-21839/)

(INTERVAL (“Jabra Fan” from Fan)

· Ki & Ka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%26Ka)

· Fan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(film))

· Transforming SRK into his own fan (https://youtu.be/G5JMoRx_QyM)

· Housefull 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housefull_3)

· We still have to see Sarbjit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbjit(film)) and Udta Punjab (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UdtaPunjab)

· Raman Raghav 2.0 trailer (https://youtu.be/xq1cEmhVa68)

· July: Sultan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan(2016film)), Great Grand Masti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreatGrandMasti), Dishoom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishoom)

· August: Mohenjo Daro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MohenjoDaro(film)), Banjo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo(2016film))

· September: Baar Baar Dekho (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaarBaarDekho), Akira (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira(2016Hindifilm)), M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.S.Dhoni:TheUntold_Story) (we forgot to mention this)

· October: Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeDilHai_Mushkil)

· November: Rock On!! 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockOn!!2), Kahaani 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahaani_2)

· December: Befikre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befikre), Dangal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangal_(film))

NEXT TIME: three films shot in our home province of Alberta

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