Review: Guardians of the Galaxy
Hey all! Eric here with another movie review, this time of the latest Marvel offering: Guardians of the Galaxy! I’m guessing that the vast majority of the movie-watching audience has no idea who this band of merry misfits is. I’ve been reading comic books since I was a kid, and I’m only vaguely familiar with...Continue reading
ICRT Battle of the Bands Meet the Judges: Summer Hsu of Relax-ONE
Summer Hsu, lead singer of Relax-ONE, qualifying judge for ICRT’s Battle of the Bands, a woman who survived a spectacular onstage face-plant in the middle of an international show. “It was my first performance in Japan” she says with a laugh, “I started out stiff and nervous, and as I was dancing, my high heel...Continue reading
Blizzard To Exhibit at Taipei Trade Show For First Time
Blizzard is set to participate in the Taipei Computer Applications Show for the first time this summer. Apparently, Blizzard is going to be a huge presence at the fair, taking up 150 booths, over ten percent of the total 1,100 booths. Blizzard is using the show to highlight its next expansion to World of Warcraft,...Continue reading
Click for Cute (07/23/2014)
Hey guys! Today I present to you an adorable corgi who doesn’t want to go outside, and expresses this in the cutest way possible!Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Dubbing Cartoons for a Taiwanese Audience (7/21-22/2014)
Listen Episode Description Anyone from an English speaking country who flips to Cartoon Network in Taiwan can tell you, it sounds a little different from back home: The whole thing is dubbed from start to finish into Chinese. But it’s not just a simple matter of translating straight from English to Chinese. In fact,...Continue reading
Marvel’s Goddess of Thunder Thor is Now a Woman
Thor is now the Goddess of Thunder – as Marvel Comics announced Tuesday the hammer-wielding Norse superhero will be a woman in upcoming comic book issues. The publisher says it hopes to attract more girls and women to comic books with this change, which is one of the most shocking to hit the “big three”...Continue reading
Edge of Tomorrow Scriptwriter Dante Harper to Work on Live-Action Akira
Akira has long been one of my favorite Japanese animated films and it was probably one of my first exposures to anime as a child (my first being Project A-ko. Yes, how appropriate for an elementary school kid). I became very excited many years ago when I heard that a live-action version was in the...Continue reading
Eco Film Festival to be held in Taiwan Starting Today
An annual eco film festival will hold more than 5,200 screenings of documentaries around Taiwan starting today, to promote the importance of ecological conservation. The Forestry Bureau, which is jointly organizing the festival with the National Central Library, made the announcement Monday. The festival, to run until October 19, will screen 40 documentaries about Taiwan’s...Continue reading
‘Tacky’ Tuesday! Weird Al Parodies Pharrell’s ‘Happy’
The king of parodies, “Weird Al” Yankovic, is back with a brand new album titled Mandatory Fun. But he’s not just releasing a new album, he’s also putting out a new music video every day during the release week of his new album with his #8videos8days project. His first music video parodies the catchy “Happy”...Continue reading
First Full Length Trailer for Doctor Who Season 8 Lands
Doctor Who Watch Day 200: Yes, it has apparently been that long since Matt Smith’s tearful farewell on The Time of the Doctor, but on this fateful day, there has been another significant development in the Whoniverse. It turns out the BBC can be very generous when it wants to be. During the half time...Continue reading
French Director Luc Besson Explains Lucy Location Choice, Praises Taiwan
French director Luc Besson said in a behind-the-scenes report Thursday that he fell in love with Taipei 10 years ago when he was promoting his film The Fifth Element and decided to pick the city as the location for his new action thriller Lucy. Besson made the comments in an exclusive, 110-second behind-the-scenes preview of...Continue reading
Complete List of 2014 Emmy Nominations
One of the drawbacks for couch potatoes TV fanatics living in Taiwan is that the import rate of foreign TV shows is significantly lower than that of the movies, making it somewhat more difficult to stay on top of all the shows that are airing in the States and abroad. Luckily, the Emmys – TV’s...Continue reading
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