Category: From the Vault
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Newbie’s Guide to HK Cinema, Part II
As mentioned in my last post, I contributed content to a friend’s website in the early aughts. Ken specifically asked for a newcomer’s guide to Hong Kong cinema and split what I gave him into two parts. If you missed Part I, here it is. At some future date, I may revisit this topic. There…
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Newbie’s Guide to HK Cinema, Part I
I looked up my friend Ken’s site (AngelicVoices.com) on the wayback machine and found some old stuff I posted there, circa 2002. My primary movie obsession back then was Hong Kong cinema so Ken asked me to write a guide for newbies with recommendations. Note that this is a snapshot from 2002. Back then it…
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The Four Feathers (2002)
I love a good adventure. There’s something about British soldiers in their spiffy red coats off fighting the barbarian hordes… or at least there used to be, before political correctness made these stories difficult to pull off. The golden age of this kind of filmmaking was back in the 40s and 50s, when people still…
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History
Back in the late 90s I built my first website. It was very primitive—just text and links and no CSS. I called it ‘The Vault of Keeba’. It was mostly a collection of capsule reviews of obscure movies, with occasional full page reviews of movies in theaters. I still have the files for that website.…