Comics review: Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.

I liked their take on The Punisher. I was unimpressed by many other things they did. But I was wowed by PreacherPreacher is every I hate, put together in a way I can but love ( Read more... )

This summer, I saw Hamlet played on the Boston Common by the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. It was a memorable moment indeed, with great actors, and a very creative direction, that managed to be very original without sacrificing the least either the letter or the spirit of the text.

But after seeing the play, I could not repress ( Read more... )

To complete this series of quick movie reviews, here's for animation movies I saw this year.
Nausicaa, 1984 ( Note:8 )

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 2005 ( Note: 6 )

My friend Jay initiated me to Bollywood movies. Here's the deal so far.
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In those weeks without posting, I've accumulated a huge backlog. I'll start pouring the overspill with some movies seen this year...
The Monkey King
An early Stephen Chow movie ( Read more... )

A quoi ça sert l'amour? (Cám ơn, Tamu) [Aussi là: 1, 2, 3 -- voir aussi ces autres courts-métrages.]

My friend Tamu is organizing a special screening of Jason and the Argonauts in presence of Ray Harryhausen on July 24th in Montreal (not 23rd, not 25th), I unhappily won't be able to attend (I wish I could), but I thought some of you might appreciate, especially since you might be around Montreal at said date for FantasiaI think Tamu clearly ( Read more... )

I can but recommend the beautiful animation movie Howl's moving castleby Hayao Miyazaki's studio Ghibli ( Read more... )

At the ITA movie night this week, we watched Mulholland Falls by Lee Tamahori (1996). A good film noir on the Evil of Power. Synopsis: little evil meets Big Evil and gets a glimpse of what Evil is. The philosophy of evil is randianly summarized thus: "The cornerstone of civilization is human sacrifice."

I wonder what is the class of statements ( Read more... )