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Book Review: ‘Party Time’ by Rowan Callick 27 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
For someone who writes routinely about the Communist Party of China, I wasn’t sure what to think when I received a copy of Party Time: Who Runs China and How by Rowan Callick, the Asia-Pacific editor ...
KGB Kiwi Gourmet Burgers (Taipei) 26 Aug 2013 | 08:11 am
The Specials Board Burger joints in Taiwan are a dime a dozen, but one that keeps creeping up in recommendations is KGB (an acronym for Kiwi Gourmet Burgers), which as the name suggests was set up by...
2012 Movie Blitz: Part 11 26 Aug 2013 | 06:12 am
Safe House (2012) Denzel Washington plays an ex-CIA operative who turns rogue and becomes an international criminal who, unsurprisingly, appears to be more than meets the eye. Ryan Reynolds plays a ...
Grandma Nitti’s Kitchen (Taipei) 26 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am
We had a rare Saturday morning off and decided to wander Taipei’s chic Shida area for a nice cafe or restaurant to enjoy a leisurely brunch or lunch. We ended up wandering around aimlessly to Grandma ...
2012 Movie Blitz: Part 10 24 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
The Tall Man (2012) An interesting thriller about a mysterious figure (the titular “Tall Man”) who has been kidnapping kids from a small mining town. Jessica Biel (whatever happened to her movie care...
California Pizza Kitchen (Taipei) 24 Aug 2013 | 02:44 pm
The sports bar-feel of CPK I was in need of a good pizza, and after looking around online for a while I decided on California Pizza Kitchen, an international pizza chain that actually originated from...
2012 Movie Blitz: Part 9 23 Aug 2013 | 04:42 pm
This latest tranche has a political flavour…kind of… Act of Valor (2012) Just the title alone made me sceptical of this film, essentially a US Army recruitment video starring real-life soldiers. The...
No. 168 Prime Steakhouse (Taipei) 23 Aug 2013 | 07:08 am
Rummaging through some old photos when I came across a set from what might have been an anniversary lunch last year. I can’t remember for sure, but what I can remember is that No. 168 Prime Steakhouse...
2012 Movie Blitz: Part 8 22 Aug 2013 | 09:35 am
Men in Black 3 (2012) I still remember the hype surrounding the original Men In Black in 1997, which officially catapulted Will Smith into big screen superstardom. I also vividly remember watching Me...
Translating Subtitles and Screenwriting 21 Aug 2013 | 02:27 pm
I broke my promise to post at least once a day the last few days because I took on an emergency freelance case translating subtitles for a Taiwanese film trying to make a film festival deadline. It wa...
