Being away from Israel I haven’t heard about this film coming out, but luckily, I stumbled across “Noodle” in a nearby DVD rental shop, and how glad I am that I did.
A Chinese female foreign worker, working for an Israeli woman - Miri, goes away for one hour and disappears leaving behind a sweet [...]

14 Mar, 2008 in Movie reviews

The Israeli “Betipul”, translated as “In therapy” , is one of the best TV dramas I’ve seen. Over a year and a half ago I described how overwhelmed I was with this show. I thought it was so powerful it knocked me off balance and occupied my soul. Even though it’s been a while [...]

21 Aug, 2006 in Movie reviews, United Kingdom

I just came back from a fantastic weekend up at Edinburgh-Scotland, spending 3 days touring around Edinburgh and getting some of the great Fringe Festival atmosphere.
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The Fringe Festival
The Edinburgh Fringe (or just The Fringe) is the world’s largest arts festival. It takes place in Scotland's capital during three weeks every August.
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The Fringe mostly attracts events [...]

9 Aug, 2006 in Asia, Movie reviews

What does it mean to be an Asian? in the "Grace Lee project" - Grace Lee, a very self-aware Korean origin American,  tries to track down other Korean Grace Lees across the US in the pursuit of her own identity. Are all Grace Lees the same? are all Asian American the same? Are all Asians [...]

21 Jun, 2006 in Movie reviews

“Don’t you think fiLi has completely gone mad? he doesn’t watch normal movies any more…”.
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On my 10th grade I did my Cinmateq subscription and I’ve been a movie addict ever since. For me, there’s nothing like the sensation of watching a film.
I don’t know about normal, but I do admit that my taste in movies [...]

10 Jun, 2006 in Movie reviews

I’ve been seeing so many Asian movies lately, and I almost forgot about this one. It took me a while to get to it, but I finally did and it’s… overwhelming.
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With other movies I might go into a deep investigation of the Japanese culture, think out loud about the nerd/geek phenomena [...]