by isaokato | May 9, 2010 | Post
Sometimes a group of top-notch professionals deliver a turkey film so much more Turkish than a real turkey. 2003’s The Time Machine is one of those examples: great actors (Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons), great special effects, great original story (H.G. Wells), and a...
by isaokato | May 7, 2010 | Post
If a person’s self-image is far apart from how the world sees him, the whole situation turns into a tragic comedy. I had a chance to witness that in *cough* BBC online news. The article Why are British actors playing Americans? says British actors are flourishing in...
by isaokato | May 6, 2010 | Post
The “Rock You Like a Hurricane” Scorpions was not the only German rock group in the 80s. Michael Schenker, the younger brother of Scorpions’ guitarist Rudolph Schenker, was, with his Michael Schenker Group (MSG), more popular than the Scorpions in Japan. This may be...
by isaokato | May 4, 2010 | Post
The documentary No Impact Man follows the story of a man who decides to create an experiment: Make the least possible ecological impact on earth. The catch is not in what he changes but in what he does not change—his address, in Manhattan, New York. His wife and...
by isaokato | May 2, 2010 | Post
During the 80s, hiring a Western singer for a movie’s title song was in vogue for Japanese big-budget, special-effects movies, a tradition that has been maintained in the world of advertisement to this day (check out the wonderful collection of movie stars selling out...
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