Thursday , April 2 , 2009
Censorship Watch: Burn After Reading DVD
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 For their followup to the acclaimed western No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen went to Washington, DC, for Burn After Reading, a black comedy about two screwball gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) who stumble on a disc full of secrets from a fired CIA agent named Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich). The bumbling pair then try their hands at blackmail.While Burn After Reading is satire....
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Friday , February 22 , 2008
Goodbye, CD Warehouse
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The saddest sight I've seen in a long time was last weekend when I passed through The Emporium shopping center and saw CD Warehouse. I had heard the chain was closing in Thailand, but I wasn't prepared for what I saw - a store that is virtually empty shelves. Any stock of value has either been shipped out or scavenged clean in the chain's close-out sale at its one remaining location.There was no musi....
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Sunday , December 30 , 2007
2007 in Thai cinema: The DVD releases
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 Only one Thai film released on DVD in Thailand bucked the local industry's now-standard practice of omitting English subtitles. And the winner is: Me ... Myself.I've not actually picked this one up yet to see what the quality is like. I did like the film. Me ... Myself is the story of a transvestite (and presumably gay) cabaret dancer (Ananda Everingham) who gets amnesia and thinks he might be straig....
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