Archive for June, 2009
‘Robogeisha’ will be the best goddamn robot movie of all time
Transforming geisha. Shrimp in eyes. WHY ARE THE BUILDINGS BLEEDING?
CGI Appleseed returns to DVD
ADV’s re-release of 2005’s Appleseed, based on the Masamune Shirow manga of the same name, hits store shelves today. Full press release follows, though no BluRay is mentioned (boo!).
APPLESEED ON SALE TODAY
The Original Movie Back On DVD
HOUSTON, June 30, 2009—Sentai Filmworks is proud to announce the return of Appleseed to DVD! The [...]
Could Yao Ming’s left foot end his career?
Yao Ming, who suffered a broken foot on May 8 during a playoff game, now faces the possibility that his career could be on the ropes.
Rockets center Yao Ming’s broken left foot could be a “career-threatening” injury. Dr. Tom Clanton, the Houston Rockets’ team physician, told the Houston Chronicle on Monday that Yao’s injury “has [...]
Feng shui master Tony Chan hot for dead lover’s money
I haven’t been following the probate trial of deceased Hong Kong businesswoman Nina Wang, but by-golly I wish I had been. The details of the trial sound like a Shaw Brothers’ production of a Jackie Collins’ novel. Aside from the May-December aspect of Wang’s romance with feng shui practitioner Tony Chan (she was 69 when [...]
Chinese Feds crack down on gold farmers
It looks like Chinese World of Warcraft carpetbaggers will have to find something else to do with their time; the Chinese government has moved to shut down so called ‘gold farmers’, MMORPG players who are paid to hoard in-game resources and dump them onto sites like wowgoldforsale.com (I’m not sure that’s a real site – [...]
Japanese AFLAC Commercial
Someone told me this Japanese AFLAC commercial was funny. I don’t think it’s really that funny (maybe just because I don’t understand Japanese?) but I was tickled to recognize it as a parody of the Japanese folktale about Urashima and the daughter of the Dragon God.
Urashima
AFLAC
Yellow Menace Theater: The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula
This classic Hammer / Shaw Brothers co-production is better known in the States as Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and was a staple of many Saturday afternoon martial arts television matinees. Peter Cushing stars as Dr. Van Helsing, once again tracking down his arch nemesis Dracula. A change of scenery from Eastern Europe to [...]
Dear Michael Bay (Spoilers)
Dear Michael Bay:
I recently returned from a showing of your new movie, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. I am aware that you are a film director and have been for some time. I myself have directed only one short film for a college course, but I feel that I could give you some pointers [...]
Yoshida Brothers – the ZZ Top of shamisen
Orangutan News
Shapiro Keats LOVES orangutans. They are his favorite animal (I prefer giraffes myself, because thet’re funny looking, but to each their own). So I am always on the lookout for orangutan news. So of course I came across this heartbreaking/hopeful article about a group in Indonesia who is rehabbing and releasing orangutans who have been [...]
Why the Internet Doesn’t Always Suck
It seems the Internet might be good for something other than furry porn and iTunes: bloggers living in regimes that restrict the media might just be changing things.
Blogger Heroes
The article focuses on the case of Deng Yujiao, a waitress who stabbed a Communist Party official who tried to rape her. Usually, she would have been [...]
Spielberg / Smith soldier on in face of ‘Oldboy’ adversity
I am really curious to see what emerges from the Stephen Spielberg / Will Smith adapation of Oldboy. Park Chan-Wook’s 2003 film was so remarkable, I have serious doubts that another adaptation can do anything with the source material that Chan-Wook didn’t already achieve. Plus – Spielberg? Smith? Incest? Not a likely combo.
But I’ll stop [...]
Once more – in memory of Michael Jackson
From MSNBC:
“My heart is heavy because my idol died,” said Byron Garcia, security consultant at a Philippine prison who organized the famous video of 1,500 inmates doing a synchronized dance to “Thriller.” The video has had 23.4 million hits on YouTube.
Garcia said the inmates in Cebu will hold a tribute for Jackson on Saturday with [...]
Off-Topic, But Holy Shit
While making dinner I heard on the news that pop megastar Michael Jackson had died. “What? No way!” I thought. “He’s made of liquid metal. He’ll never die!”
But it’s true.
>sob<
I grew up with this guy, I even had Thriller. On vinyl. That’s a record, kids. Like a CD, but bigger.
And even though he’s been made [...]
DVD Review: Re-Cycle
Re-Cycle is something of a departure for Hong Kong horror kings the Pang brothers. The movie begins as a decently creepy (if conventional) horror flick, but forty minutes in it reveals itself to be dark fantasy in disguise, with visuals that can’t help but draw comparisons to Guillermo del Toro’s wonderfully nightmarish visions. Unfortunately, Re-Cycle [...]
