Archive for October 24th, 2008

Dekada Cinemanila Fever

October 24, 2008

Catched two Cinemanila films one after the other yesterday: Not Quite Hollywood (Australia) and The Band’s Visit (Israel).

Not Quite Hollywood, a documentary by Mark Hartley, gives you an unstoppable and invigorating dose of Aussie flicks of Ozploitations from the 60s and beyond.  Sex and nudity, violence, graphic grossness, explosions, weird death-defying stunts, car chases, horror and gore characterize [...]

The New Orleans Experience

October 24, 2008

Yesterday wasn’t so good a day since I was stricken by the flu.  Good thing my dinner experience at The Fort changed all that.  We were invited to New Orleans Restaurant for a drug symposium.  To our delight, we were served a very sumptuous meal–from the appetizing salad with meat strips, to the main course [...]