PenguinSix

Expect some controversy when this one opens.

Wow, this was pretty impressive, especially in HD.

Ok, this is in Japanese with a few subtitles, but you can understand what is going on by the emotion involved.  The girl is ‘Japan’s biggest Harry Potter fan’ who won a contest to go to ‘Hogwarts’ and conduct interviews for Japanese tv.  When she is surprised by Harry Potter, she’s overwhelmed with excitement.  It’s [...]

You might get that idea in the media.  This month I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which in Swedish was called Men who Hate Women Menn Som Hater Kvinner.  It was about some murders of women…well I won’t spoil the plot other than to say sex and murder had a pretty big role. 
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Guns guns guns, but who shoots first?

Ok, I love Hong Kong cop films, so it probably helps. I’m also able to sort out Asian faces better than most idiots who just say ‘they all look alike’, which definitely helped because this movie is part Hong Kong police fare part Buddhist personality play. I [...]

Yea, it’s an old one, but I was watching it the other night and by the time it was over all I wanted to do was go and spend some time with my son.

The plot’s pretty simple. Czech musician and playboy does a sham wedding to a Russian to help her get a travel [...]

“The Bank Job” On DVD last weekend (I no longer get to the theater).

True story? To some extent. In 1971 £4 million robbed from a British Bank, including pictures of a ‘royal person’ in a compromising sexual position, several cabinet ministers photographed in a brothel, and a spreadsheet of corrupt policeman [...]

Just went to Blockbuster and picked up three films:

The Bank Job
In Bruges
Angelina (a French film by Luc Besson so I thought I’d give it a chance).

Review coming later.