Yes, Earth2, that ill-fated one-season SF TV show (imdb) (fansite 1 2 3 in-dept-critical-analysis-page rpg-fansite). Okay, it wasn’t as brilliant a show as it perhaps could have been, but it was at least interesting enough to grab my attention in 1994. I remember a few years later, people were still whining online about the cancelation of the show, and even several years after its cancelation, they were trying to agitate for it to go back on the air with a new season. I had desperately wanted to watch it again, and looked online. Someone who’d taped all the espisodes was …

One more thing I found on Joi Ito’s Web. Did you know that the movie Terminal was based on a real life story? Well, sort of. More here. And here. The not-real-life-story is far more interesting, if you ask me.

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on things: working on my ghost story, working on camp stuff, testing students, and marking essays. So after days full of these things, I feel like watching some shorter things than movies. Let alone Bollywood movies, even standard Hollywood or Korean movies are long for me at 2 hours. Of course, I’ve watched a few films lately; notably, the Bollywood movie Devdas, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, and Madhuri Dixit—a great movie, though it’s really, really long, and quite miserable at the end. Why do true lovers sometimes fail so …

This article from the Korea Times Teen edition, A house for sale, Ghost Included, came up when I googled “ghost Korea”. I doubt it will be of any use to my in writing my ghost story, but I would like to see the movie nonetheless. And I think I shall print the article out, as it has a vocab list at the end… I didn’t know there was such a thing as the Teen Times, nor that they presented Hangeul for learners of Korean.

What’s the follow-up to Gurinder Chadha’s wonderful film Bend It Like Beckham? Oh yes: Jane Austen in a sari. I can’t wait to see Bride and Prejudice. In Bride and Prejudice, the Bennet family of sleepy Longbourn, Hertfordshire, become the Bakshis of Amritsar, a city equally far removed from Indian high culture and society. Elizabeth Bennet has become Lalita Bakshi, while Mr Darcy is a wealthy heir to an American hotel chain, who meets Lalita while visiting India for a friend’s wedding. With swift changes of locale that would do justice to any Bollywood film, the action ricochets between India, …

Okay, so I had a nice long review of Hellboy written out and then I lost it. Sometimes digital life sucks. Anyway, the gist was something like this… I saw Hellboy a few days ago but I waited to review it until I could watch a related documentary that was slowly downloading onto my computer. What was the documentary? It was, as it turns out, a somewhat underwhelming piece called The Occult History of the Third Reich: SS Blood and Soil, a poorly done voiceover-with-crap-footage piece which attempted to encapsulate the more credible bits of the Nazi Occult Mythology. That …

A three-plus hour-long film based on lectures by a philosopher? Hey, I’m not really a fan of Heidegger, but I want to see this film just the same.

Today Lime and I returned from our trip and watched Shrek I (again, for me, in the hopes that we could watch Shrek II, though we found it had finished playing in Jeonju). Then we watched Van Helsing, becaused it was the most convenient movie for both of us (and she let me pick). Shrek: what can I say but I enjoyed it more this time around. Even if my girlfriend kept telling me that Shrek looks like me, and acts like me, with the same expressions, and so on? Ah well, I got my revenge when Fiona turned all …

It seems to be weird movie week here at eclexys. In a fit of curiosity, I watched al three Harry Potter movies, which I guess aren’t exactly weird but it’s weird that I, who had no interest in them before, watched them all in such quick succession. I found them alright, but I am still wondering how it is that the Potter movies and books became such a phenomenon. My neighbour Heather assures me that it’s the quality of the books, and has vowed to get a copy of the first novel into my hands so I can see for …

Well, I’ve just watched the proper version of Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil, something I’ve wanted to do since Lime and I watched 12 Monkeys. I had serious doubts about being able to find it at any video shop in Korea, so I went ahead and downloaded it. If you read through some of the different reviews and commentaries out there (here are a few: 1, 2, 3, 4, and a particularly interesting one at #5), you get so many references thrown at you: “modernity”, Saussure, Weber, Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, Kafka, Orwell’s 1984, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, …