I just had what may have been the greatest theatrical experience of my life to date. We went to the Metro in the U-District to see Wilson Yip & Donnie Yen's latest, Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster. The movie itself? Pretty meh. Given my love for Wilson Yip's body of work, the fact that he has of late degenerated into making shitty blockbusters ( Read more... )

In feudal Japan, you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a woman with a blind masseur fetish.

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Watched a couple movies with Cris & Janet last nite while passed out on the couch & recovering from J&J-wedding and its assorted shenanigans. Both were recent purchases from video rental stores clearing out their foreign film sections ( Read more... )

This week's movie night took its inspiration from Amer, a modern giallo art film we caught at SIFF a few weeks ago.

(As an aside, I would like to state for the record that Amer is highly recommended for fans of film in general, most particularly fans of giallo, and doubly so for those named Phil. Imagine, if you will, a movie made entirely out ( Read more... )

Food consumed:
* 4.5 large containers juice
* 1 box Honeycomb (with milk)
* 4 slices pizza
* Three vegan fake chicken nuggets
* Other stuff, probably

Media consumed:
* MST3K: The Crawling Eye, Santa Claus, and Gamera
* Both Discworld mini-series
* The Crimson Rivers and The Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse* Several episodes of the 5th ( Read more... )

Cris just started watching Lilo & Stitch. All of the humans have excessively large and rather oddly positioned noses. I find this quite off-putting.

Also, the main character is apparently a psychopath.

What's with all these HK dramas the last couple years taking place before the handover for no readily apparent reason? Especially when all the characters either use super-thin laptops or have tiny flip-top cell phones?

Discovery of the night: it turns out that my big recent director discovery--Pang Ho-Cheung (You Shoot, I Shoot (probably in my top 10 of the year), Exodus, Isabella (which I just watched & is fantastic), Men Suddenly in Black (which is still indefinitely unavailable on Netflix))--was also the author of the novel Fulltime Killer, which the same- ( Read more... )

Watching Heroes Against Heroes while folding laundry.

It's like a martial arts after-school special starring Wong Fei-Hung and Beggar So about the dangers of smoking opium in 19th century China.

Finally finished Candace Pert's memoir, Molecules of Emotion, a few weeks ago. It was definitely very good, and very thought-provoking. My main real complaint is that, by the end, it was clear that the part of the story that she thought was interesting was her hippie-flake new-age ideas (receptor activity is all vibrational, so maybe matter is ( Read more... )