Movies
The Fall and Fall of IMDb
I’ve been a bit off the map lately due to a visit from my dear old Ma, so I haven’t been posting too much. It’s interesting hearing her comments on Bangkok, which often make me do a double-take and go ‘really?’ and wonder if I used to think the same thing when I was new [...]
Underrated Things: Lucky Number Slevin
One of the few rewards of the much-maligned visa run (which I’ll write about later) is that maybe you’ll get to see a not-bad movie on the bus ride to the hell-hole that is the border with Cambodia. I found myself stuck on one of these runs a while back and saw a movie that [...]
Censorship in Thai Cinemas
Despite Thailand’s leaders promoting the country as a democracy, it’s still got quite a way to go until it truly is what they claim. Nowhere is this more evident than when you go to see a movie, where scenes deemed ‘harmful to Thai society’ are routinely blurred, pixelated, or just plain excised. In [...]
The Fitna Controversy
If you haven’t been reading the news lately, Dutch MP Geert Wilders has released a 17 minute movie called Fitna, which means ’struggle’ or ’strife’ in Arabic. Fitna is causing a lot of controversy around the world because of its extreme anti-Islam stance. On the heels of the Muhammad cartoon controversy, Islamic extremism [...]
Indy Deserves More
As is obvious if you’ve read my previous post on watching the Indiana Jones movies with my Indiana-virgin girlfriend, I’m a pretty huge fan. It should come as no surprise, then, that the fourth movie in the series, Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has me jumping up and down like a [...]
GI Joe Gets Real
When I was a young kid in the 80’s, there were two icons of toy-dom that stood tall above all others: GI Joe and the Transformers (both interestingly owned by Hasbro). They were on completely opposite ends of the spectrum - one was a group of badass soldiers, the other was a group of extra-terrestrial [...]
The Ridiculous American Media
This post will be a short one, but I had to put this up after I read it and nearly spewed smoothie out of my nose. Apparently - and get ready for a shock - Sarah Jessica Parker almost got wet on a photo shoot! Seriously! From www.imdb.com:
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker narrowly [...]
An Indiana Jones Education
I remember watching Raiders of the Lost Ark on my 10th birthday - my Mom rented a VCR player and my friends and I were held rapt. We particularly enjoyed rewinding the part where that dude’s head blows up, much to the shock of my Mom who thought it was all a little bit [...]
The Sweet Return of the Batman
I was a bit skeptical when talented genre director Christopher Nolan (Memento) was hired to restart the Batman franchise, but was left way in the dust eating my own words when it turned out to be one of the best superhero movies ever made, right up there with Superman (1978) and X2. I love it’s [...]
Futurama Returns!
For those that aren’t yet fans of the brilliant but underappreciated animated TV show Futurama, I pity you. For those that are fans, some good news - Futurama is back! Sort of… I just caught Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, a straight-to-DVD return to the Futurama universe (although, it won’t [...]
