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animeWatch

Posted by: onyxx on: August 20, 2006

Yesterday while I was rearranging my audio CDs, I came across an old anime favorite (Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro) that got mixed up in the pile by mistake. Without further ado, I popped it into my player.
As the familiar strains of the upbeat opening song wafted into my tiny living room, I found myself sliding [...]

9/11 Events on Mainstream Films

Posted by: onyxx on: August 14, 2006

As we wait for Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center to hit the local theaters (almost 5 years after the event), I am reminded of another 9/11 movie that was shown about 2 months ago.
United 93, helmed by British director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, Bloody Sunday), is a chilling, no-nonsense account of what transpired during its fateful [...]

still another update…

Posted by: onyxx on: August 10, 2006

Well it looks like the controversy relating to pictures submitted by freelancers on the ongoing Middle East conflict isn’t going to end anytime soon.
Another questionable photo, snapped by Issam Kobeisi, has been attracting a lot of attention from conservative web sites (such as Little Green Footballs, mypetjawa, etc.), and this time the offending media source is [...]


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