Archive for March, 2010

Chan’s Fast Food, Middle Street, Caye Caulker , Belize

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 by David Lam

Chan’s Fast Food, Middle Street, Caye Caulker , Belize

South of the Yucatan Peninsula and east of Guatemala is one of the best hole-in-the-wall joints for Chinese food north of the equator. An hour by water taxi from Belize City on a small island known as Caye Caulker is Chan’s Fast Food, a weather-beaten blue wooden plank shack with a hinged wooden panel propped [...]

REVIEW OF SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE (2005), DIRECTED BY PARK CHAN-WOOK

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 by P Chen

REVIEW OF SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE (2005), DIRECTED BY PARK CHAN-WOOK

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (hereafter, SLV) is Director Park’s culminating film in the revenge trilogy. Using a woman as a principal character, Park, again, attempts to draw viewers into the ethics, psychology, and now, sociology of revenge. There are elements that have remained constant, and simply assumed a priori in this film, perhaps presupposing that [...]