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Not the crappy American release, but the real one from Hong Kong. Get it if you can. We decided to stay home and watch a movie and since Tami hadn’t seen this it was the obvious choice even though she doesn’t like kung-fu movies. She thought it was an odd and strangely entertaining movie though […]

I finally got a chance to see this because my sister bought a copy while she’s staying here. I’ll need to see it again too because I was also really tired and dozing on and off throughout. That said, wjhat I saw I thought was quite funny and a good parody of action films and […]

There are probably spoilers contained within… I saw it at the 12:01AM show, and the 5 regular shows the next day starting at 9AM. The first show was pretty good, but felt lacking in a number of areas. When I saw it the next morning with the small non-rowdy audience it was a MUCH better […]

So I just saw HGttG and I have to say that I liked it overall. I also have to agree with the reviews that say that it isn’t as funny as the books, but the reasonfor that, I believe, is that the funniest parts of the books are not action or dialog but the commentary […]

Last night I saw Kung-Fu Hustle, the latest film from Stephen Chow. I loved this move and will say right up fron that this is the movie that Matrix 2 & 3 wanted to be. I’m not going to spoil anything here but I will say that the fight scenes are amazing and creative. The […]

I don’t know if anyone reading this cares, but Star Wars tickets are on sale. I have mine for all day on the 19th of May on Screen 4 at the Santa Cruz Cinema 9. Join me! Hold a place in line for me for between shows!

I finally had a change to ask the internet about the “Adobe Premiere could not grab a frame buffer error” I wou;d get when trying to render the movie to a DVD format. It was frustrating because it woul dbe working and then stop. Well I found there is an up date to fix that […]

So I’m trying to transfer some other laser discs to dvd to get practice for when I try with Star Wars. In anticipation of this I got a newer better video capture card, I got Adobe Premiere Pro, I upgraded to Windows XP so I could run Premiere Pro. There’s a lot behind this. Premiere […]

Wow! I love the visual style of this movie and I love Robert Rodriguez directing. I liked the stories and how they intertwined, not explicitly, but seeing characters in the same scenes but from the vantage piont of other characters. Sure it was violent, but that was mostly covered in the comic book style. It […]

There still a little fine tuning on position and such, but the picture is so beautiful, and it’s just projecting on the wall! DVDs look wonderful and you can see stuff even inthe dark scenes. Video games are made to look not as good in some ways now in that it is so sharp you […]