Star Trek Into Darkness
My annual summertime love affair with expensive action-packed blockbusters has begun. I skipped Iron Man 3 in favour of Star Trek Into Darkness as quite frankly I wasn’t a fan of the first two Iron Man movies. Star Trek on the other had runs thick in my geeky veins and last night I lost myself...
My Thoughts after watching The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The wait is finally at an end, yesterday I went to the theatre to see the first of what is now three hobbit films – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I’ve never read the Hobbit book but I intend to eventually. Being a big fan of the first Lord of the Rings Trilogy and fantasy films on a...
Counting down to the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Fans of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy and fantasy films rejoice! a new trilogy starts in less than 20 days! The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released in theatres on Friday December 14th 2012 and not surprisingly… I cannot wait! There have been no shortage of tweets from me @jamaipanese...
My 10 Favourite Game of Thrones Characters from Season 2
So what if my blog is primarily about life in Jamaica and my love of Japan. It’s been a few weeks since the end of season 2 of Game of Thrones and I am now suffering from Game of Thrones withdrawal syndrome. Season 1 was good, season 2 was even better and season 3 can’t start soon enough....
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
My geek powers have increased exponentially with the absorption of the final film in the Transformers trilogy. Transformers: Dark of the Moon opened yesterday here in Jamaica and after fighting off a horde to get tickets I barely survived dual attacks by two female movie goers, one trying to lick...
13 Assassins – Non-Stop Samurai Action
Living in Japan in it’s feudal era must have been interesting but extreamely dangerous, then again it would depend on which family or class you were fortunate or unfortunate to be born in. 13 Assassins is 2 hour festival of gore that isn’t as story or character heavy as I’d want but...
X-Men: First Class
Nothing says summertime like Super Hero flicks and X-Men: First Class is one of the many super hero flicks vywing for our attention this summer albeit with an interesting twist. I nervously gave it a watch at the theater today and my oh my was it almost perfectly awesome. Professor X and Magneto are...
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the 4th installment of a pirates of the Caribbean series that was original supposed to a trilogy. Being a huge fan of the pirates series Pirates 4 was one of my most anticipated movies of 2011 as I looked forward to seeing Johnny Depp and crew on another...
Cars 2 Clip: Mater vs high tech Japanese toilet
I’m a big fan of animated movies. I’ve found that with all the live-action garbage coming out spewing from Hollywood animated movies like the Incredibles, WALL-E, Shrek etc have been better repositories for my money. If you have been following me on Twitter for a while you’d know that...
Coracoes Sujos Post WWII Japanese in Brazil
Coracoes Sujos or “Dirty Hearts” is a new film by Brazilian filmmaker Vicente Amorim and is based off a fictional book written by Fernando Morais about the chaos in Brazil’s sizable Japanese immigrant population following Japan’s World War II loss. The Japanese immigrant community...
