The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Forever Young“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”By Jimmy So“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is about a man who takes 86 years to kick the bucket. The man, Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), is born old and grows younger, but the curiosity is in seeing how the man is born and how he dies; the misfortune is that his demise takes two hours and forty-seven minutes. To my knowledge, nothing quite...Read more

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

Ancient discovery

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

by Jimmy So

Much of movie-going is about expectations. What hopes and aspirations hang upon “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”? Do we dare expect a repeat to the good times of the first three Indy installments, a return to the bullwhip market of the nin...Read more

Olympic Photos

Here are my pics! Enjoy.

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“No Country for Old Men” and “Juno”

Young Americans

“No Country for Old Men” and “Juno”

What country is the Coen brothers, or, more accurately, Cormac McCarthy, referring to? Adapted by Joel and Ethan Coen from McCarthy’s novel, “No Country for Old Men” seems inhabited by plenty of old men. One such man opens the film, or at least, the voice of him does: Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), his barito...Read more

"Atonement"

Redemption song

“Atonement”

The talk has been about the dress (shiny green) and the long track shot (long). There's more to "Atonement" than that, but is it a good enough movie to convince us that fiction can atone for reality? Atonement might be a theological term, but break the word apart and it almost has a mundane quality: at-one-ment. Briony Tallis, the protagonist of the...Read more