I need to peep this anime...

This movie Summer Wars looks hard...

F what you heard: go Watch Astro Boy!

before i went out to see Astro Boy last night, I watched the movie critics on At the Movies tear the movie apart. They hated the movie, and said that it was confused, boring, and totally inappropriate for children. They appeared especially concerned with the violence, death, and questionable character motivations at the core of the conflicts in the film. although both critics suggested skipping the movie, their reviews actually intrigued me to give the movie a chance. As often happens, the critics got it wrong.

Go See District 9 ASAP!!!

me and my boy copped some free passes to a sneak preview showing of the new documentary style sci-fi joint District 9 produced by that dude Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings,King Kong) and directed by his protege Neill Blomkamp. the film takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa where an alien ship has been hovering for twenty years, and the shiftless aliens inside have been relocated from the dormant ship to the alien superghetto, District 9. the South African corporation MNU has designs on the aliens' technology, which will not work for humans, but as the documentary framing sequence foreshadows, something goes horribly wrong.

Straight Outta Palestine

i just watched this movie Slingshot Hip Hop on Sundance Channel. it's a fresh documentary about the first Palestinian rap group DAM, and other groups that came up after them. this mess was the bomb! inspired by the likes of Wu-tang, 2Pac, and Public Enemy, these kids risk their necks to create hip hop that they believe will be instrumental to chant down their oppressors. i don't know if i could have sat through a documentary about the Palestinean condition, but being the hip hop nerd that i am, i was easily able to stay engaged to all the political information. it was fascinating to see how these kids from a culture that can take all the hyperbolies of gangster rap literally absorb all genres of rap equally.
good stuff.

www.slingshothiphop.com

www.myspace.com/damrap
-samax

Iran's tradition preserved

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Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novels Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood (Pantheon, 2003, English version) and Persepolis 2: the Story of a Return (Pantheon, 2004, English version) won widespread acclaim in France, now her home, and around the world. Now, she has co-directed, with Vincent Paronnaud, the animated film version of her memoir. The title PERSEPOLIS comes from the Persian capital founded in the 6th century BC by Darius I, later destroyed by Alexander the Great. It’s a reminder that there’s an old and grand civilization, besieged by waves of invaders but carrying on through milennia, that is much deeper and more complex than the current-day view of Iran as a monoculture of fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. “I believe that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists,” Satrapi says. “I also don’t want those Iranians who lost their lives in prisons defending freedom, who died in the war against Iraq, who suffered under various repressive regimes, or who were forced to leave their families and flee their homeland to be forgotten.”
peace,
samax.
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you should check out Paprika, directed by Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers,Paranoia Agent) about a psychotherapist-turned sexy dream-diving-superheroine battling against terrorists attempting to use stolen technology to unhinge reality!