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March 29, 2011
Sucker Punch: An 11-year-old boy could write this.
Fetch us an 11-year-old boy. No doubt a 12-year-old is running the studio. On the bright side, Sucker Punch is a reminder that Quentin Tarantino Is A Genius. (You don't just filch stuff from older movies, you filch the good stuff not the cliches.) The very 90s soundtrack includes Bjork. Hey wasn't this song in [...]
The Weekly LitWit Challenge 5.3: The Yucch-meter splits your entries in two.
The Power of Books from 9gag. #2 gambala. 15-year-old boy hears strange noises in the backyard, investigates, sees Maria from next door having sex with someone, takes a closer look and sees himself getting it on with Maria. Very nice prose but it feels like an episode from a larger work, say a novel about [...]
March 28, 2011
Catch Me. . .I'm in Notting Hell (Now with more hell!)
What did we say about Star Cinema's endless remakes of Notting Hill? The good news is that Catch Me. . .I'm In Love, directed by Mae Czarina Cruz and starring Sarah Geronimo and Gerald Anderson, is not that bad. The bad news is that it's not good either. We think the secret of Sarah's success [...]
Catch Me. . .I'm in Notting Hell
What did we say about Star Cinema's endless remakes of Notting Hill? The good news is that Catch Me. . .I'm In Love, directed by Mae Czarina Cruz and starring Sarah Geronimo and Gerald Anderson, is not that bad. The bad news is that it's not good either. We think the secret of Sarah's success [...]
March 27, 2011
People like aggravation
Remember this? Maritess Vs. The Superfriends by Rex Navarette and Dino Ignacio. Whenever I take a cab and the taxi driver is listening to the Senate investigation into corruption in the Armed Forces, I gently suggest that he switch to something less stressful. "Iinit lang ang ulo ninyo (You'll just lose your temper)," I say. [...]
The War and Peace Reading Support Group: We can see the pinnacle.
Photo of Audrey Hepburn as Natasha in War and Peace, directed by King Vidor, from imdb. Only watch the movie if you want to see Audrey. From imdb: "Audrey Hepburn's salary of $350,000 for the film was the highest salary an actress had ever received to date. When notified of her record salary Hepburn modestly [...]
They all look the same to you, huh?
At a restaurant I happened to glance at the current issue of Expat newspaper. The headline was about the influx of Japanese visitors to the Philippines after the recent earthquake. "The increasing Japanese presence in the Philippines may not be immediately visible to the Filipinos considering the similarity in features between the Japanese and the [...]
March 25, 2011
Armchair tour of the BenCab Museum
BenCab from Perinspire on Vimeo. Brooklyn-based filmmakers Esy Casey and Sarah Friedland took a tour of BenCab's museum of tribal and contemporary art in Baguio. Have a look.
Eulogy for Elizabeth Taylor
This is the poem that Colin Farrell read at Elizabeth Taylor's funeral service: The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Listen to this recording of the poem read at amazing speed by Ms Taylor's ex-husband twice over, Richard Burton.
March 24, 2011
Azkals, geopolitics, colonialism and dictatorships. Updated: Philippines 3, Bangladesh 0
The Azkals rejoice at last year's Suzuki Cup. AFP photo from fifa.com. Is Neil the Black Swan or the White Swan? Philippines, Welcome to Earth, my column today in InterAksyon.com. Philippines vs Bangladesh in Myanmar today, cross fingers and toes. * * * * * 1745. Goal! Araneta scores in the 41st minute of the [...]
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