Sam made us promise that we’d go and see a movie after the UPCAT last Sunday. We promised but there was a problem about which movie to see. Alex had been waiting for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ever since she read about the third Mummy film. The Dark Knight was Sam’s choice. [...]
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Finally, we got to see Iron Man. Loved it! Not only because I am a huge Robert Downey Jr. fan but because the feeling that I was going to puke which prevailed during the first 15 minutes or so of the movie did not last long enough to allow prejudice to build. See, when the [...]
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Weeks after I started my book list and movie list, I neglected them. I was trying to update both, realized how many books I’ve bought and movies I’ve seen that I hadn’t added to the lists. Too many, in fact, that I can’t recall all of them right now.
There are two films, however, that have [...]
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If you’re into Filipino movies, you have probably heard of Mike de Leon, a film director who re-defined Filipino movie making which such films as Itim, Kakabakaba Ka Ba? and Sister Stella L. Although Itim and Kakabakaba Ka Ba? will always be my favorites among his work, Kung Mangarap Ka’t Magising left a distinct impression [...]
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My head feels like it’s floating and it’s been this way since I got out of bed this morning. See, I stayed up until 1.00 a.m. to watch Chinatown.
When Chinatown was shown in the local movie houses, I was still in grade school. When it was nominated in the Oscar Awards, I saw the trailer [...]
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When I read about the controversy surrounding two parenting (sic) shows in the UK, my first instinct was to check Auee’s blog to see if she had posted her thoughts about it. See, she’s my source for anything and everything UK. I don’t think Bringing Up Baby and The Baby Borrowers are aired in the [...]
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Not since Murder One have I gotten this excited over a TV legal drama series. From the day I first saw the trailer of Damages on AXN, I memorized the date of the premiere. At 10.00 p.m. of January 8th, I tucked a very sick Sam in bed and set out to watch the pilot [...]
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Me: “How would like to have a baby sister?”
Alex: “NO.”
(Yeah, like she said it in caps.)
Me: “No? What if she looked like you? A mini-Alex…”
Alex: “NO.”
(Again, like she said it in caps.)
Me: “Oh come on. We’ll name her Danielle, like Drew Barrymore in Ever After (the only version of Cinderella that I like). Danielle… [...]
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you about me, this blog and a few irrelevant things as well.
