Tonight the movie was "5 Centimeters Per Second," a truly beautiful anime by Makoto Shinkai, who also made "Voices of a Distant Star" and "The Place Promised in Our Early Days" - both favorites, both on my 'to-buy' list. He has this amazing ability to create stories filled with silence and visual poetry and sadness, poignancy that leaves me ( Read more... )

Er, well...triple-feature, actually. My internet habits have changed, and I never seem to remember to log in here while the movies are fresh in my memory, anymore. I'd like to remedy that, but make no promises. Here's the cream of the recent crop of my hours spent in front of the screen ( Read more... )

(2006, starring Chi Song and Yu Chin)

Been working my way through this volume -- watched episode #15 last night. And OH MAN! it is good! Last night's episode ended with Soo-jin threatening to commit suicide if Hyun-woo leaves her. Of course, he already broke up with her, returning to his True Love Eun-soo (even though he doesn't remember the time ( Read more... )

(2006, starring Chi Song and Yu Chin ( Read more... )

(2006, starring Jodie Foster)

Well, it wasn't exactly a "heart-stopping thriller", but then, I hadn't expected it to be. I was curious, however, and that rated it a check-out. And it was okay. It could've been a lot better. It could have had a tighter plot, and a sneakier director, and a better use of its cast. (I mean, Sean Bean, and he was ( Read more... )

(2006, starring Will Ferrell)

I shouldn't have watched this movie. And I shouldn't have enjoyed it. And I really shouldn't have laughed out loud through-out it.

But I did. Gods of the Silver Screen help me, this movie was surreal and fun and bizarre and I loved it.

I'm going to go to movie-lover's hell.

(2004)

Oh anime, sweet anime. This is the final disc in a series I've been watching, about an adorable young girl who was rescued from a big creepy castle by a kind young man, and welcomed into his family. *aawww*Oh. Did I mention she's a vampire who has to drink his blood every full moon, who has a hidden destiny as a goddess of destruction, and ( Read more... )

(2003 ( Read more... )

(2006, starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves ( Read more... )

(2003)

The last few days I've been working my way through this volume (There are seven episodes in each volume, after all!), feeding my craving for sweetness and harmony and the sort of kind heartedness you can only find in anime.

Only one more volume in this series...do I save it, or go for the total devourment? Only my whim can tell...