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Don't worry, I'm still alive!

I've been busy as hell with school and various things, so I haven't been watching many movies lately. This is a good week to watch something, however, so I may get to see something within this week or the next.

While on hiatus from watching movies, I've been relegated to watching anime. It's cool since anime works on a shorter format (30 minutes) and a longer span - between 13 and 26 epsodes, if not more - and there have been some interesting series coming out in the past few weeks. Once I get through all of them (Christmas? Next year?) I'll tell you all about them.

Speaking of that, if you're an otaku living in the Philippines and have cable, it's a travesty not to have Animax. It's the greatest channel I've ever watched since WOWOW. Call your local cable provider or something. I'm not kidding. Do it now. NOWNOWNOW! Run, don't walk! And if you're in prison, break out~!

Oh, and remember the time I did a review on the movie Ilusyon? Apparently the directors of the film posted on this site regarding the review. I'm really thankful to know people are somehow reading my stuff. Really! I was honestly touched. It inspires me to write more stuff, which in the long run is going to mean more things on this site. I originally did this as an outlet to express my thoughts about films I've seen and liked (and disliked) and so far I'm very happy with the results.

Honestly, from the bottom of this lowly student's heart, thank you for reading the stuff on this site. It may sometimes sound weird *cough*kickboxing*cough* but bear with me.

Well, hopefully next time I'll get to see some of the films on my itenerary: The newest Harry Potter (first two were faithful to the book and entertaining but were only decent films, the third totally screwed with the book but was a better 'film' overall.) Hur Jin-ho's April Snow, and Jackie Chan's The Myth, which reportedly didn't live up to the hype. Let's hope either another solid return to HK cinema or Rush Hour 3 (at last, in production, no thanks to a certain co-star...) proves advantageous to him.

Well, that, and a slew of previously unseen films up high on the ol' queue: Ryu Seong-wan's Crying Fist, the mishmash period film Heaven's Soldiers, the not-so-mishmash-but-still-strangely-unbelieveable Blood Rain, the cheesy yet unavoidable Godzilla: Final Wars, and the new gut-crunching action flick from Prachya Pinkaew, Tom Yum Goong.

Come December, come hell or high water, I'm going to scrounge up enough cash to buy a DVD of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Park Chan-wook's last film in his revenge trilogy, from Korea, which has both the theatrical version and the version Park originally intended for the film - a gradual shift of color to grayscale in the last third or so of the movie. There are English subtitles, of course.

Until next time...