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Today is the day. I’ve been working to finish this movie since 2006. There were moments in the six years since putting pen to page during which I couldn’t make this day out in my future. Not that I considered quitting, that isn’t my style, but I did at times feel like the journey of making this film would stretch into eternity. This is not unprecedented, check out Ellison’s second book or Wendell B. Harris’ second movie.

To avoid that fate I had to take an extreme measure and commit myself to working 12 hours a day 7 days a week until the movie was finished. This change was sparked from a conversation I had with the Orisha through a priestess. The Orisha had a simple message that I took to heart.

Go fast.

I accelerated my pace. I have yet to pump the brakes. I rolled into Park...

"Yoshimitsu Morita, whose films depicted the absurdity and vulnerability of everyday life in conformist Japan, has died," reports Yuri Kagayama for the AP. "He was 61." His breakthrough came with The Family Game (1983), winner of five Kinema Junpo Awards — Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Actor (Yusaku Matsuda) and Supporting Actor (Jûzô Itami) — in which Matsuda plays "an offbeat tutor who forms a heartwarming relationship with a young man in a stereotypical middle-class family."

"Though even its most perceptive commentators reduce Kazoku geimu (Family Game) to a critique of 'affluent, middle-class nuclear family life in the city and nose-to-the-grindstone education systems' [Keiko McDonald in 1989], Morita's most widely known film is before all else hilarious," wrote Bob Davis in Senses of Cinema in 2006. "Its laughs derive from inappropriate and idiosyncratic behavior, unseemly frankness, slapstick antics, gross-out tactics, repetitions, exaggerations, explosive contrasts, and unnatural pacing." In Davis's "brazen 'ranking' of Morita's films, Family Game, Deaths in Tokimeki, Sorekara [And Then], Keiho,...

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After the wild action comedy ride of Dachimawa Lee, Korea's 'action kid' Ryoo Seung-Wan is back to the harder edged material where he made his name with The Unjust. A cop based action flick starring his brother Ryoo Seung-Beom and Private Eye / The Black House star Hwang Jun-Min - one of my favorite character actors in the world - in a dark and twisty world. Here's the official synopsis:

A serial killer targeting elementary school students is on the loose. When the most probable suspect dies in custody and the case looks like it's reached a dead end, high ranking police brass decide to create a killer--and anyone will do. Though Detective Choi Cheol-gi boasts an incredible number of arrests over his career his rank never showed it. He decides that this is his last chance at professional redemption. He makes a deal with mob boss Jang Seok-gu, who he has been investigating,...

After the wild action comedy ride of Dachimawa Lee, Korea's 'action kid' Ryoo Seung-Wan is back to the harder edged material where he made his name with The Unjust. A cop based action flick starring his brother Ryoo Seung-Beom and Private Eye / The Black House star Hwang Jun-Min - one of my favorite character actors in the world - in a dark and twisty world. Here's the official synopsis:

A serial killer targeting elementary school students is on the loose. When the most probable suspect dies in custody and the case looks like it's reached a dead end, high ranking police brass decide to create a killer--and anyone will do. Though Detective Choi Cheol-gi boasts an incredible number of arrests over his career his rank never showed it. He decides that this is his last chance at professional redemption. He makes a deal with mob boss Jang Seok-gu, who he has been investigating,...

Young Jeezy has premiered a music video for his single entitled "Circulate", which is taken from his album "The Recession". In the Terry Richardson-directed video, he is seen partying with several beautiful girls at New York's Hotel Plaza Athenee. He is also shown doing a live performance in a concert.

Jeezy has released "The Recession" across America since September 2, 2008. He made a collaboration with Trey Songz in "Takin' It There", teamed up with Kanye West in "Put On" and joined forces with Nas in "My President".

Young Jeezy recently announced to have made music for a new mixtape called "The Black House: Thug Mansion". He said, "I'm working on the mixtape right now, 'The Black House: Thug Mansion', the streets called me, the 'hood looking for me. I gotta bounce back, baby."

Young Jeezy's "Circulate" music video:...

A music video in support of Young Jeezy's song "Welcome Back" has been brought forward. Starting with a scene showing the crowd of his fans in one of his live concerts, it continues to follow him from one place to another during his life on the road while promoting his latest studio album "The Recession".

Jeezy has released "The Recession" across America since September 2, 2008. He made a collaboration with Trey Songz in "Takin' It There", teamed up with Kanye West in "Put On" and joined forces with Nas in "My President".

Young Jeezy recently announced to have worked on a mixtape called "The Black House: Thug Mansion". He said, "I'm working on the mixtape right now, 'The Black House: Thug Mansion', the streets called me, the 'hood looking for me. I gotta bounce back, baby."

Young Jeezy's "Welcome Back" music video:...

Changed dates and new additions:

August 26th: The Black House [r1], Brotherhood of the Wolf (DC) [r1], My Sassy Girl [r1], No Blood No Tears [r1], Postal [r1], Redbelt [r1], 29th: Sparrow [r3hk]

September 2nd: Fist of Legend [r1], Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea [r1], The Wolves [r1], 3rd: Hansel and Gretel [r3k], 9th: The Forbidden Kingdom [r1], The Forbidden Kingdom (Se) [r1], 23rd: Far North [r1], The Legend of Red Dragon [r1], Midnight Eagle [r1], Re-Cycle [r1], The Suicide Song [r1], 30th: Iron Man [r1], Iron Man (Se) [r1], The Rebel [r1]

October 7th: Psycho (Se) [r1], Rear Window (Se) [r1], Touch of Evil (Se) [r1], Vertigo (Se) [r1], 14th: Bad Guy / Time [r1], Ten Nights of Dreams [r1], 27th: Big Man Japan (Aka Dai Nipponjin) [r2uk], 28th: Kisarazu Cat’s Eye: The Movie [r1], Sukeban Boy [r1], Woman on the Beach [r1]

November 3rd: Mad Detective [r2uk]??????, 11th: Sukiyaki Western Django [r1], Sukiyaki Western Django [r1], Sukiyaki Western Django [r1], Sukiyaki Western Django [r1], Sukiyaki Western Django [r1], Sukiyaki Western Django [r1], Yo-Yo Sexy Girl Cop [r1], 18th: The Minoru Kawasaki Collection...