For those not familiar with the anime series “Cashan, The Robot Hunter” which “Casshern” is based on, this movie may be a tiny bit confusing. Additionally, there is a lot of text to read with subtitles racing by (as there is only a Japanese audio track) and on top of that, the subtitles are not beneath but across the film which can be distracting and since they are burnt in, you can’t switch them off either. Also, cutting the movie by 24 minutes for Region 1 DVD release may have been a marketing decision, somehow I am not so sure it was the right one. Enough of these technicalities and on to the story then!
In director Kazuaki Kiriya’s debut effort we meet “Casshern”, a young man killed in war and risen from the dead by supernatural powers, reincarnated to fight against evil – but let’s rewind a bit.
Continue reading ‘Casshern (2004)’
Hop over to http://www.sinwell.eu/ and have a listen to the new album “True Sense” from Sinwell that hit the stores on January 15th 2008. If you have trouble getting hold of the album around where you live, drop them a line! OK, so I am biased (ever since the band was called King Size in the 90s) but nevertheless these guys do rock! Don’t just take my word for it. Listen! (ยป myspace).
Sinwell – True Sense (Promo CD) track list:
01. Nowhere Man (4:29)
02. Old Love (3:52)
03. True Sense (4:28)
04. Say What (3:52)
05. Change my World (5:12)
06. Shot in the Middle (3:38)
07. Time of Revival (3:56)
08. Sleepwalker (4:55)
09. Where Your Heart Belongs (4:06)
10. Pretender (4:21)
11. See The Light (4:54)
12. Dead End (4:44)
“They get you while you sleep!”
Yes they do, no matter what version you are watching, however if you choose to watch the 2007 one, you may fall asleep anyhow and it would be for the better if you did. Watching Philip Kaufman’s version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” you won’t fall asleep, you cannot. I promise you that much.
For those unfamiliar with the “Body Snatcher” theme, the gist of the matter is that somewhere in outer space there are spores on a devastated planet orbiting a dying sun. The spores are driven by their impulse to survive to leave their doomed planet, drifting through space trying to conquer new planets.
Continue reading ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)’
I moved everything from 1und1.de to strato.de because the old web host was too expensive and had crappy service, now the new web host is less expensive and still has crappy service and on top of all that mod_rewrite is not working and producing internal server errors. Turns out there are a lot of unhappy strato.de users facing the same problem.
All my links you find via search engines have permalink structure and are now broken since strato.de just doesn’t offer mod_rewrite with any of their web hosting packages, at least that is what I am led to believe. This is easily the death of any blog if suddenly none of the 1000s of links search engines have cataloged stop working altogether.
How such a simple feature can not be part of a “PowerWeb Advanced” package, esp. when Strato.de advertizes their webspace to be WordPress friendly is beyond me. If you have made similar experience, feel free to comment.
For now I am using this plugin which (ab)uses the 404 error document as a workaround to use permalinks without mod_rewrite.
Matt Damon once again shows us how good Jason Bourne is in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). In fact, he is so good, it is unbelievable how good he really is but this is beside the point since we do not care if Bourne is a believable character or what his real name is. It does not matter at all. What matters is the action, the stunts, the chases, and more of the same, perfectly orchestrated to one big race with one winner, Bourne, of course.
Now, if you dig all that then you will enjoy this third installment, even though I must say the often praised shaky camera cinematography has been annoying at times in this one, pay attention to the camera shakiness and judge for yourself.
Continue reading ‘The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)’
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