chocolate'Chocolate' stars newcomer Nicharee "Jeeja" Vismistananda as an autistic girl who learns how to fight both by absorbing her martial arts skills from what she sees on TV and from the Muay thai boxing school next to her home. When she finds a list of debtors in her sick mother's diary, she decides to go collecting. Her quest leads her to ( Read more... )

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"balance," 1989

no, i didn't watch the oscars, but i did happen to notice that the departed won best picture.

just gonna repost this:

my six word review of The Departed

INFERNAL AFFAIRSWAS ( Read more... )

just finished watching stay.

what an amazing movie. first blush impressions provoke me to say things like "this is one of my new favorite movies." does this pass the "michael would buy this so he can rewatch it whenever the mood so strikes him" test? yes, yes it does.

i'm not really in a mood to do my own review now especially since i've read ( Read more... )

INFERNAL AFFAIRS
WAS
SO
MUCH
BETTER.

( a few more words )

Boycott Disney, Pirates of the Caribbean, caribbean amerindian centrelink ( Read more... )

so just judging from the trailers and the excellent way disney glossed over the issue of slave labor in the caribbean in the first movie, i wasn't too hopeful about the portrayal of natives and people of color in the second pirates of the caribbean movie.

luckily it turns out my worries were completely unwarranted!


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or is that me? or i? i...am? me...is? anyhoo...

via the imdb daily studio briefing, there is a photo of a memo purportedly sent by trey parker and matt stone to the MPAA ratings board to get their South Park movie passed with an R rating in 1999 circulating the blogosphere, or at least the immature, easily amused portion of it. like this portion ( Read more... )

you know, al gore has gotten a lot more charismatic since he won lost the 2000 elections. he's got this scholarly avuncular folksy southern charm thing going on.

i thought it was a very well done movie, terrifyingly informative. interestingly it wasn't just a movie based off of his global warming talks, it was a movie about his global warming ( Read more... )

free advanced screening for TAKE THE LEAD


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