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On Monday night, I got a call from Michael (The Metropolitician).  After a few moments of hellos and how are you’s, he told me that he and Clarke were getting ready to watch Batman Begin at his place.  He continued and asked if I knew about the group of people going to see The Dark [...]

I don’t know much about the graphic novel, but the new Watchman trailer looks GOOD.  In Korea, I doubt they’ll be playing this before The Dark Knight, though.

I went to a pre-screening of Hancock tonight with the Metropolitician, his two Korean friends, and a photography classmate.  The movie opens tomorrow in Korea.  Tickets were confirmed this morning, and I rushed to the subway station after work. When we arrived at the Yongsan CGV to take our seats, everyone had to check in [...]

Koreans are not going to be happy about this:

For those that don’t know, there’s going to be a G.I. Joe movie, set to be released in August 2009. If you grew up in the 80′s and watched these cartoons, you knew too well the famous phrase PSA: Knowing is half the battle [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AjcDW7zIY8[/youtube] New pictures from the movie were leaked about a month [...]

I’m pretty excited that Taylor Kitsch is set to play Gambit for all three Wolverine movies.  Taylor plays my and Allison’s favorite character on Friday Night Lights: Riggins.  Josh Halloway of Lost was in talks to play Gambit, but he declined, saying it was too similar to Sawyer, his character on Lost.  Plus, I’m pretty [...]

I’ve been watching a lot of movies during these past two weeks that Ras has been gone.  In order, this is what I’ve seen.  It’s the first time I’ve seen any of these movies, except for Pride and Prejudice (2005), which is one of my favorite movies. Atonement * Juno * National Treasure: Book of [...]

On Friday, Peter asked me what I had planned for the weekend.  “You guys are usually doing something or another, right?”  Yeah, that’s usually the case.  This past weekend, though, was 48 hours of pure, unadulterated lounging.  It involved sleeping in, strong coffee, internet surfing, movie watching, bacon pizza, wine sipping, nibbling on persimmons and [...]

From Pop Candy: From festivals to your laptop If you’re interested in foreign and/or indie films, you may want to take a look at Jaman, a site that offers more than 500 movie downloads from around the world for rental or purchase. Many of these titles aren’t available on Netflix or in stores, so the [...]