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Being John Malkovich
“Being John Malkovich” came on the TV unexpectedly this evening. It is a brilliantly absurd movie. I saw it when it came out, I guess in 1999 and came away very impressed. It was directed by music...
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Top 25 Movies of All Time for Special Effects
When I got to work this morning, Canoe.ca had published a list. It was predictable they had Star Wars first and it was good to see the original King Kong. But any list that leaves out 2001: A Space...
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Tarantino to remake Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
I don’t follow all the Hollywood rumors very carefully. I try to let people make the movies then go and see them or rent the DVD. I don’t even like to watch trailers online, often they give away too...
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Watched a great movie last night
It is a part of the permanent Musk collection. Boondock Saints didn’t have that wide of a release but it has held up well. It has an improbable plot and an open ended ending, but there was never any...
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Sukiyaki Western: Django
Last weekend while reading the Georgia Straight I came across a movie review and I immediately phoned my friend Dave. Sukiyaki Western: Django is a Western staring Japanese actors speaking English. It...
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I like Chocolate
I really do like “Chocolate”. And I was also quite pleased when I decided to rent the movie of the same name. It is from Thailand, made by a lot of the same team that brought the world Ong-bak and Tom...
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I just watched a great film
I’d like to say it was a joyous celebration of life, OK I will say it was a joyous celebration of life, no one else will. The film is also very very clever, cunning if you will, so cunning you can...
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The similarities between Red Cliff and Troy
I watched the film “Red Cliff” in one sitting. I’m more of an expert in Japanese history having studied it at UVIC, but I’ve been learning more about China due to my MBA and living there. Red Cliff is...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
I remember seeing ads and possibly a trailer for this film, but had forgotten it until it made the new release wall at Happy Bats. It was quite good and surprisingly long. It is superior to “Sukiyaki...
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The Greatest Quotations of All Time!
Not only did I comb through a lifetime of quotations I’ve collected to bring you this top ten list. I also made a web mashup out of a subset of the quotations I collected which you can play with. Pat...
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Morgana Mou as Chun Li
It was someone else’s idea to cast her as Chun Li, but Morgana Mou (牟丛) is an aspiring model, actress, and martial artist. She has a demo real online which hopefully I can embed from Youku.com. Given...
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Rushmore
While sitting at home in Deep Bay, I happened upon “Rushmore” on TV. I’m a big Wes Anderson fan. I own several of his movies but not “Rushmore”, I saw “The Royal Tenenbaums” first and seeing “The Life...
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Fuck it, let’s go bowling
I just watched “The Big Lebowski” again. I was going to watch it last night, but I discovered my VCR was dead. My mom thinks it was killed by some sort of power surge as it has hardly been used. It...
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Being John Malkovich
“Being John Malkovich” came on the TV unexpectedly this evening. It is a brilliantly absurd movie. I saw it when it came out, I guess in 1999 and came away very impressed. It was directed by music...
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