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Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (2004, Yukisada Isao)

December 7th, 2005 No Comments

Boy meets girl, boy woos girl, boy gets girl, girl gets sick.
Crying Out Love has a frame too: boy never gets over it and still hasn’t, twenty years later, when he’s engaged to be married. The engagement actually doesn’t set off the story, some of the silly plot contrivances do, but it doesn’t really matter. […]

Scream (1996, Wes Craven), the director’s cut

December 7th, 2005 No Comments

Poor Matthew Lillard, he was already looking way too old to be a teenager in this one (he was twenty-six). I probably haven’t seen Scream since 2000 or so, sometime before the third one came out. Maybe even further back than that. What I’m trying to say is… I’d actually forgotten how bad Skeet Ulrich […]