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2 More flicks and then I think I’m movied out. For Now.

You Are My Sunshine:

A lovely and sweet Korean flick HIV romcom between a cowfarmer and a coffee bar prostitute. Um. Yeah. I know it sounds weird but it’s not the strangest film I’ve seen today. Of note, our cowfarmer owns 1 cow. Of note, our prostitute with the heart of gold has some […]

Jonestown: The Life & Death of the People’s Temple

This Film: Fascinating. Just totally fucking fascinating.
This documentary is both stark and intimate in revealling the creation, growth, corruption, and tragic end of of the Jim Jones cult known as the People’s Temple.
It’s amazing to me how a cult of personality can so enthrall people, overtake one’s will, and ultimately take the lives […]

Princess Raccoon (Should be Princess Tanuki)

Princess Raccoon with Zang Ziyi
First off, this film is incorrectly named. It should be Princess Tanuki, not not Princess Raccoon.
Per the ever resourceful Wikipedia
Tanuki (Katakana: タヌキ; or Kanji: 狸) is often mistakenly translated as raccoon or badger, but is in fact a raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), a canid species native to Japan and other […]

A personal aside.

Jayzus Christ.  What’s the matter with you peoples!
I’m stunned on a number of levels that I, (yes me) cannot articulate.

All About Love

What’s more embarrassing than crying so hard in a theater that your contacts pop out?
Sitting in a private cube to watch a film in the press office and sobbing quietly to yourself while watching a film on a flatscreen monitor with headphones on and wiping your face as you sniffle and shake in a puddle […]

Al Franken in 2008! (God Spoke)

Ok.

So with Al Franken’s film “God Spoke” there’s a few givens that one will expect out of the film.
You expect it to be snarky. You expect it to have criticism of the Right. You even concede that of course, it will be very biased. But hopefully you’re tolerant of that.
You do *not* […]

Mother Fuckers.

Sometimes I hate living in this city.
By pure virtue of the idiocy of our city’s beuracrats.
Crap.
Read Jane’s breakdown of what went on today.
Demand CHANGE!
And remember this travesty when you’re voting.
Damn it all.

Le Maison Himiko (House of Himiko)

Last night I saw this lovely film House of Himiko during the SFIFF.
There was surely a reason why the theater was packed! Catering to Japanese culture fanatics as well as the GLBT community, this film touches on great points of humanism, acceptance, affection, and the delicate balance of relationships between a number of ebullient characters […]

… In Bed (no, it’s not a fortune cookie film) (En La Cama)

I’ve just come out of my 2nd movie for the SFIFF and wooo… what a goodie.
In Bed

IMHO: A stunning film that is a study of pieces, intimacy at all levels, the lies we tell others, and those that we tell ourselves. The confessions of truth that are hard to swallow, and what the concept […]

Things I know now that I’m 32

Yes… it’s that time of year again.
Originally uploaded by minjungkim.

* It’s ok to not lie about one’s age
* It’s still ok to lie about one’s weight
* It’s ok to admit that you can’t do shots anymore
* It’s not ok to punish yourself anymore than your body already does when you wind up actually doing […]

Crap.

So ok, there are some pieces of media which add significant vallue by being seen on the big screen. Movies that benefit from being bigger. In stereo. In Imax grandeur even.
CockByte, the screening of RedVsBlue is not one of these films.

Translation: They’re paying us enough to get stoned on a regular basis. […]

Holy Crap!

Andy Lau, big time movie star, just waved at me outside of the press office.
OMG OMG OMG!
If you haven’t seen him in brilliant films like Infernal Affairs, then totally do your best to see this film during the festival this week.

Teardrops trickling down divine cheekbones, supermodels flaunting couture on the catwalk, petal-perfect flower arrangements, lemon-yellow […]

Grand grand grand bday party…

From what my little slightly hung over head can recall, I had a fabulous time and I love all my friends and you are all literally amazingly awesome and I heart you all big time!

For my bday, what I want

Is for you to write something funny for me here.

Dear Spammers

I just wanted to let you know that, in case you thought otherwise, I’m really not a fat and gullible russian man with erectile disfunction. Seriously.