Category Archives: Movies / TV

MI3 Nicole wants Tom

May 9, 2006 – 10:24 am

Yesterday afternoon the Mission Impossible 3 DVDs hit the street of Pattaya. the DVD touts were telling customers, “Good movie.” like they had just graduated from the Pauline Kael film critic school (she was a famous critic who never panned a totally meaningless film by an unknown director) ie she was an intellectual. Anyway MI3 isn’t […]

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FLIGHT 93 too soon?

May 7, 2006 – 7:53 am

Just got a DVD copy of FLIGHT 93, a dramatization of the the 9/11 flight which crashed in a Pennsylvania farm field. During the first showings of the trailer for this movie, audience members cried out, “Too soon.” Too soon? It’s been five years. Wanna wait ten, twenty.  Maybe 50.

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Land of Plenty – Wim Wenders Film 2006

April 21, 2006 – 11:29 pm

Wim Wenders presents a troubling film about America’s obsession with terrorism. While stating the threat as real, he focuses on a demented Vietnam vet’s (John Diehl) hunt for a sleeper cell in the high desert north of LA which turns into an odyssey of regaining his sanity with a missionary niece (Michelle Williams). Initially the film’s […]

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