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Hat-tip to Karla for this bit of news: Paramita’s Tala video is now enjoying airplay over that videoke-slash-music-video-channel; its available online via the director’s Multiply site. Further convince yourself with this fetching video still. Great to know this, since Tala is hands-down the best song from the band’s album.

Here are cut scenes from The IT Crowd. Patiently waiting for the second season (via). Oh, and IMDB verifies that the American version is currently in pre-production. Personal note: I work 99% of the time with the company’s IT personnel (I’m NOC, anyway), but there really isn’t much uber-geeky fun to see there.

Just saw Tokyo Godfathers’ (haven’t seen this, but I’m encouraged now) creator Satoshi Kon’s visually stunning Paprika (Quicktime trailer; Japanese Flash trailer): 29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old “dream detective,” code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people’s dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis. Must, must, must-see.

PinoyPost interviews film critic Noel Vera on Philippine Cinema, in large part, based on the Fil-Am experience. If you hesitate -you shouldn’t- to purhcase his Critic After Dark book, this is a great primer. Five months late, though.

Michelle Yeoh stars as Corazon, a Chinese/Filipina astronaut in the Alex Garland (who loves to write about Manila) and Danny Boyle (both did The Beach, 28 Days Later) production of the very promising Sunshine.