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Reign of Fire (July 12): In the not too distant future dragons emerge from London and begin to set fire to the world, establishing their dominance over humans. Mankind’s only hope is a group of dragon slayers led by Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale. This sounds like a tired old formula that has been done a thousand times and that’s probably what this film will be. On the upside, if the apocalypse does strike, London is a fitting place for it to begin...
There couldn't have been a more promising year for the Hong Kong Film Festival. Cinema is in full bloom throughout Asia. Post-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Chinese films are probably the world's hottest?and Hong Kong is Chinese cinema's incandescent crucible. The good news is that the festival was a smorgasbord of experimental work from China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and the Philippines, much of it shot in video format, with an ultra-tight focus on youth and their contradictory (and sometimes tragic) need to belong in society and simultaneously forge individual identities. The unhappy news...
...highlight their Asian-ness rather than the character development, coherent narrative and compelling dialogue that make for great movies. The pictures crawl and the stories sag under the weight of ponderous orientalism and languorous panoramas reminding us we are in Asia?you know, the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But filmmakers like Zhu Wen and Jeong would do well to remember that just because a film is Chinese or Korean, this doesn't automatically make it interesting...
Sophomore Breanne Cooley opened the top of the sixth with a walk. Fellow sophomore Kim Koral came in to pinch-run for Cooley and promptly stole second and advanced to third on a Dragon error. Harvard then capitalized on a wild pitch by Drexel pitcher Elizabeth Fuller as Koral came in from third with one out to tie the game...
...performers sparred with percussive phrases played on barrel-sized drums and copper pot-like cymbals. One group of drummers represented the agile tiger, a traditional symbol of Korea, while another group represented the booming, dragon-like power of Japan, Everson said...