Anime fandom is something of an enigma to me. While there are examples of the genre that I very much admire – Katsuhiro Otomo’s “Akira” is an incredible film, and I don’t think I’ve seen anything by Hayao Miyazaki (“Spirited Away,” “Princess Mononoke”) that I haven’t enjoyed – I consider them to be just another set of foreign animated films, and I appreciate movies such as French director Sylvain Chomet’s “The Triplets of Belleville” on the same level.
I once read that there is a notable percentage of individuals afflicted with psychopathy in high-ranking corporate positions. Business is a cutthroat world, and to rise to the top one must be charming and personable on the one hand, and on the other, willing to do whatever it takes to obtain that coveted promotion. While I don’t know how true these statistics are (I must admit that the reasoning makes sense to my liberal-minded small-business-loving brain), it certainly makes for the basis of a good story.
What is your most traumatic childhood experience? Perhaps it was a horrible bully; perhaps it was a broken bone. Even worse, maybe you walked in on your parents in the process of making your brother or sister. Whatever it was, chances are it wasn’t at traumatic as witnessing a murder accompanied by a classic rock soundtrack.
This Saturday beginning at 10 p.m., Baxter Avenue Theatres (1250 Bardstown Road) will launch its summer midnight movie series — the 150th such screening — with the "Indiana Jones" trilogy. An intermission follows both "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom." Yes, by the time "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" is over, it'll probably be about 4 a.m. Which is fine. The first three Indiana Jones films are among my favorites.
