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The best pie chart I’ve ever seen. Coming to us via delicious.com.

Thanks to Patrick’s diligence at pestering film distributors we are beginning to get DVD copies of movies to review on the MovieSet blog. Today we got the brand new film from Dimension Extreme by iconic Italian film director Dario Argento, whom I’ve met, called Mother of Tears starring the director’s daughter Asia Argento.

Here’s the DVD’s cover:

Mother of Tears is the third in a trilogy of supernatural horror films by Argento. The first two, Suspira and Inferno, were cult classics.

Here’s the trailer:

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Judging by the high production value evidenced in the trailer alone I’m thinking this may be another great film. I’m looking forward to viewing the whole thing.

Watch our blog for my review witha  surprise. Here’s a gigantic hint: We got two copies of the DVD and one is not going to be opened by us in the office. Contest details to follow on movieset.com/blog.

Apparently Pulse 2 is also on the way. Watch for a review of that after it arrives.

More and more excellent graphic novels, like Watchmen and Sin City, are being made into features films. I’m kind of excited about Fear(s) of the Dark as the film tries to stay true to the artwork of the original authors.

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Wise words from Ricky of Trailer Park Boys in one of the funniest of his monologues.

Thanks to Den for this one.

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Daffy – the Commando, from 1943.

Not the best WB cartoon, but interesting from a historical angle.

Spoofy goodness. I’m sure we’ll see more of this kind of things in the coming months. The madness has only just begun.

Carlo, Dan and I went on another lunch excursion today. This time it was a block away for sushi at Aoki Sushi, 1888 W. Broadway St, Vancouver. We’ve been there a few times and there’s always great food and excellent authentically Japanese hospitality right down to the automated voice that thanks you, in Japanese of course, when you walk through the door.

I had the pacific salmon sashimi in a cool shaped ice bowl:

It’s made by my favourite sushi chef on the planet:

He wears the funny plastic hair hat every day and always greets with a smile. One day while sitting at the counter across from him as he worked, seeing as I’m brave enough to go for sashimi, he offered me some fresh sea urchin and fatty tuna to test the culinary lengths I was willing to venture to. Although I didn’t bite he took it in stride and teased me for the rest of our visit.

In short, I like Aoki Sushi.

Check out the dinhere.ca reviews and the 2006 article from The Vancouver Courier for more about Aoki Sushi.

Dan, Carlo and myself went to Quiznos on Arbutus for lunch. On the way back to the office I snapped a picture of the above truck with my iPhone. Another well placed ampersand could make the innuendo even dirtier.

Aren’t we all happy enough to sing after that?

I wonder what the first two words translate to. Probably nothing near where the gutter known as my mind went.

Anyway, free adverstising for the company in question.

Some friends have noticed that on certain monitors the text for the previous theme I was using wasn’t easily viewable. I’ve made a change to a lighter theme with higher contrast between the text and the background. Looks much better now.