Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Directed briton danny boyle slumdog

File this one under predictable kelly clarkson has returned from her persephone-like journey across the pop-goth river styx on the excellent but commercially disappointing album my december with a shiny, streamlined new cut meant to break the speed limit up the charts. Directed by briton danny boyle, slumdog millionaire features a generally unknown cast in the story of an orphan boy in mumbai who rises from terrible hardship to become a champion on indias version of who wants to be a millionaire. They absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. There were a few others jabs at the hfpa themselves, which i really, really appreciate, even if they were all in good fun. Theron mother, gerda, was at the ceremony and she was singled out for special thanks.

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