Ghost Train (Otoshimono)
In the vein of Japanese psychological thrillers and horrors like The Ring, and yet taking a lot of aspects of other genres of thrillers, this movie didn’t strike me as particularly scary … until I found that I woke up 5 times throughout the night. I guess like Hitchcock films, it affected me more than [...]
The Kind of Place I’d Work At
Back when I worked at Trilogy in Austin, it was during the first dot com boom. Trilogy did a lot of things typical to the era: free kitchens with snack bars and soda, open bar parties, keg parties on Friday afternoons and ridiculous company paid trips to Vegas and even the Bahamas.
One thing they did [...]
Grindhouse
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s tribute to the b-flick genre delivers in very different ways. At first, I found Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror” the more enjoyable of the double features with its unabashed, over-the-top, almost comedic take on the zombie sub-genre. Rose McGowan is stunning and Freddy Rodriguez, for lack of a better description, is ninja [...]
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Kevin Cheng is a global nomad who's settled in San Francisco after calling Vancouver, Hong Kong, Austin and London his homes. Founder of Off Panel Productions and OK/Cancel. Director of Product Strategy at Raptr, a social network for gamers, and former designer of Pipes and Bravonation at Yahoo!. Presenter on numerous design subjects. Reachable at kc -at- this domain.
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