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Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 26, 2015
'The Best of Me' has enough cornball to start a biofuel company
You've never known love until you've kissed in the pouring rain. I've come to believe this is a fact of life after watching one too many movies written by Nicholas Sparks (e.g., "The Notebook" and "Nights in Rodanthe"). Other facts include: You should never ever stop dieting, even after you hit 35, in case you run into old boyfriends, which is bound to happen; and old boyfriends remain handsome forever — they never grow old or put on weight.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 3, 2015
Should Adam Sandler be slapped for 'The Cobbler'?
There have been times when I've thought that the reason I was put on the Earth was to keep a strict watch on Adam Sandler. There he was, being his rude, crude, fidgety self with bad posture, and there I was in the screening room, ready to jump into the movie to smash him over the nose with a fly swatter. It's amazing how Sandler still has a career after all his attempts to flush it down the toilet, and in my book he heads the list of "Incredible Hollywood Job Survivors," with Johnny Knoxville coming in a distant second.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 22, 2014
A Most Wanted Man: 'Philip Seymour Hoffman's final performance'
Much-loved character actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's sudden death due to a heroin overdose back in February this year was a shock, one of those things that no one saw coming. But look hard at his final performance in "A Most Wanted Man" and behind the role you can see it in his eyes — that funk, that despair, that whatever-it-was that drove him back off the wagon and onto the needle. It's a desperate performance in a mostly well-mannered film.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 5, 2013
'Extreme' characters fuel the plot of 'The Master'
Critics have called 'The Master' a triumph of style over substance. That is, the acting wins out over direction and writing.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 26, 2013
Nothing much compels reader to sympathize with characters
RIVER OF FIRE and Other Stories, by O Chonghui. Translated by Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton. Columbia University Press, 2012, 224 pp., $27.50 (hardcover)

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