Let me introduce one Japanese movie. As I said before, I rarely see recent Japanese movie, but this is exception. Especially, a child actor, Yuya Nagira, he is extraordinary child. Tarantino raved about him, and he gave Cannes best actor to Yuya Nagira.

If you have a opportunity, see this movie, and tell me your thoughts. The movie's title is Nobody Knows(Daremo Shiranai).

Nobody Knows

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As I have been recording my CDs to cassette, I've also been reviewing my DVD collection. I don't watch the movie, however; I hunt easter eggs. On LOTR Fellowship Special Edition, there is a great short featuring Jack Black and that girl who played Buffy. It's not all that funny, but it's fun finding these eggs. FINDING NEMO has a whole bunch of eggs, and these are funny; one has Dory coming up to the TV screen and saying, Hey, look! Mammals! My favorite so far though has been the Blair Witch 2; I know it wasn't a popular movie, but I loved it. On the DVD there's a whole world of eggs and clues and hidden stuff that you can only see in rewind mode. After I gathered all of the clues, I was sent to blairwitch.com to submit my findings, whereby I was supposed to get to see a bonus clip of movie. Too bad this gimmick expired and all my work done for nought. However, on Harry Potter: S Stone, you have to solve a bunch of puzzles and get rewarded with a batch of extra scenes (different from the ones on the menu). When I burn out and can't find any eggs, I google the DVD title and get the cheats to find the eggs. What fun!

Any other Easter Egg hunters?

Today, I went to see French movie, Agent's secrets. This is a true story.

Opening scene was very interesting. First 20 minutes had no dialogue. Suddenly, car chase and gun shot has begun. I thought "What? What happened?". Then, runaway man killed by a few men. And.........well, okay, that's enough. I should stop the talk. :p

Anyway, this movie was pretty good. It's like Hitchcock meets James Bond. Appearances are Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. Those two actor and actress are representation of French performers. I recommend it to French movie fan.......anyone else?　Until now, I think nobody did talk about French movies. Let's talk about French movies!

If you're not watching this show, you're nuts. The last episode, was reruns tonight in 46 minutes was absolutely brilliant. Katee Sackoff and Edward James Olmos are amazing in this thing. Go! Watch! Now!

This is pretty damn funny stuff:

Star Wars: Episode III: A Lost Hope

I was seriously hoping 'House of the Dead' was a fluke, but apparently not. I'm a little disturbed that all the movies he's done or planning on doing are all based on video games and apparently Uwe Boll is working on strike 2 with 'Alone in the Dark'. I read this on-line review:

aying Uwe Boll’s Alone in the Dark is better than his 2003 American debut House of the Dead—possibly the worst horror film of the past decade—is akin to praising syphilis for not being HIV. The director’s second straight videogame-to-film misfire boasts slightly bigger stars and higher production values than his previous catastrophe, but neither comes close to obscuring the fact that Boll remains mainstream cinema’s most awesomely incompetent living filmmaker. One would have to list every facet of filmmaking basics to catalog Alone’s innumerable shortcomings, but suffice it to say that jagged pacing, laughable use of slow-motion and bullet-time effects, seizure-inducing strobe lights, mismatched editing, ready-for-TV framing, a constantly unmoored camera, and jumbled audio mixing all rear their ugly heads at one point or another during this cataclysmic, cacophonous fiasco.

Writing the rest of this review in Chinese would prove an easier (and more pleasant) task than recounting the film’s unintelligible narrative, which has something to do with paranormal detective Edward Carnby (Christian Slater, squinting heavily and wearing a stupid duster even though it seems to be summer) and his quest to recover lost artifacts from an ancient Native American culture called the Abkani, regain his childhood memories spent at a bizarre orphanage, and battle light-sensitive demon creatures (lame amalgams of Predators, Aliens, and Ghostbusters’ terror dogs) from an alternate “dark” reality. Before the first ten minutes are through, viewers have been treated to an astoundingly stupid and lengthy bit of introductory text that sets up the film’s pointless plot, Slater’s boneheaded narration about the values of fearing the dark, and an action sequence in which unnecessary special effects (ooh, look at the camera go right into the barrel of Slater’s revolver!) and a distinct lack of logic (why would you try to fistfight a bad guy who’s just shrugged off two gunshots to the heart?) provide what may be the world’s record for unintentional laughs. And then Tara Reid makes her first appearance as brainy museum curator Aline Cedrac.

The incomparably blank Reid’s “performance” consists of wearing her blond locks down when she’s ready for love—primarily in a sex scene that even late-night Cinemax would be embarrassed to air—and up (along with dark-rimmed glasses) when she’s doing science. Meanwhile, co-star Stephen Dorff (as a spook-killing soldier working for a paranormal government agency) graciously attempts to offset the actress’s expressionless banality by going manically wild-eyed during every shouting match he starts with Slater’s rogue agent Carnby. Confronted by the insane professor Hudgens (Mathew Walker)—who’s determined, for reasons unexplained, to open the doorway between the monsters’ world and ours—Slater’s Carnby can only muster, “Hudgens, don’t be insane!” But to be fair, there’s little reason to single out one line from Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch, and Peter Scheerer’s horror/science fiction film-cribbing script, which serves up inane scenarios at a superhuman clip. “I’m here to protect you from the things you don’t see,” is how the decidedly un-heroic Carnby describes his civic duty. With this review, I can only hope to accomplish the very same thing.

Needless to say, I won't be seeing this now, but I was looking forward to the movie version of 'Bloodrayne' but I guess there's little hope of that not sucking. If he's so terrible, though, why are producers continually hiring him?

Today I bought Hosts.

As I said before, Japanese title is "Mienai Teki (Unseen Enemy)". I don't know why title is not Hosts. But.......well, it's okay! I've been waiting for a long time. At last, I can read new Repairman Jack story. Yay!

Anyway, I looking forward to next RJ book, "Haunted Air", but first of all, I start reading "Hosts" from now.


Oh, and........THIS IS JAPANESE EDITION'S COVERS! This time, Japanese cover is Jack's silhouette. But it's not only upper part of his body. It's his whole body's silhouette.


Vol.1 cover picture

Vol.2 cover picture

Sunni Maravillosa (http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/) was kind enough to create a browser icon for the site. It's just now been installed.

This worked for me: I deleted my old link, loaded the site, then added it back into Favorites and -- voila -- an RJ icon instead of the Explorer e.

Cool.

Thank you, Sunni.

Anybody here remeber a film by Michael Crichton called "Runaway"? I found it and bought it and watched it! Whoa, the memories that came back! I loved this movie when I was young and it's it seems I stiil love it! I always like a Tom Selleck movie, but when I first watched this movie was the first time I had ever seen Gene Simmons without make-up on (He was in the rock group KISS)! It blew me away that he looked like an ordinary guy!
Great movie! I loved those bullets! Anyone else remember this one?


KRW

It is always exciting to discover a FPW story I haven't read, so yesterday was thrilling as I found A Long Way Home in the Dark At Heart anthology. Of course I read it immediately and dug it. RJ at his most brutal. Carruthers has the potential to become an interesting character-has he shown up elsewhere?