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Yesterday, while adding a tagging feature on the website, several questions arose regarding tags in general. How is relevance weighted when searching for a particular tag? How many tags does a post really need? Who should ultimately decide the relevance of each tag attached to a post?

Working at an office is not much different from going to a movie shoot. You're the director, but you either don't have any work to prove yourself or your past films have totally bombed. So, although you do try to direct people to get stuff done, you have to be very careful.

I wish there was an email client (software) that embeds tags (key words) within each email so it's easier to search for what you're looking for. And I wish everyone used it to compose and send their emails.

The latest film from award-winning Korean director Bong Joon-ho (THE HOST), MOTHER is a unique murder mystery and tale of primal love that Vogue calls “…riveting and darkly funny…” The film served as South Korea’s official entry for the 82nd Academy Awards® in the Best Foreign Language film category. Mother (Kim Hye-ja - THE RUSTIC DIARY) is a devoted single parent to her simple-minded son, Do-joon (Won Bin). His foolish behavior is a constant source of anxiety for Mother and one night, while walking home drunk, Do-joon follows a school girl a ways before she disappears into a dark alley. The next morning, she is found dead in an abandoned building and authorities accuse and soon convict Do-joon for the murder. Mother refuses to believe her son is guilty and immediately undertakes her own investigation to find the killer; in her obsessive quest to clear her son’s name, she steps into a world of unimaginable, shocking chaos.

One rainy day Sarah arrived home with her hair heavier than when she left for school that day. Staring at an umbrella having tauntingly placed itself in a spot impossible for her to miss, Sarah walked past a time machine sitting in the center of the living room and headed towards the kitchen.

Korean vampire themed movie, Thirst, will begin its Houston showing on August 28 at Angelika Film Center Houston.

It seems our understanding of past movies change every time we revisit them. This is perhaps because the light that projects the films is never the same intensity, as well as because there will always be a newer film the light must pass through before reaching the older ones. Much like the cascading style sheets used in this website the films that come before and after affect each other; creating familiar yet newer images.

Want to know more about the Korean film industry, its history, and the latest Korean box office figures all in English? Then check out the rarely mentioned but extremely resourceful Korean Film Council's website.

A priest becomes a vampire…another man’s wife is coveted…a deadly seduction triggers murder. Thirst is the new film from director Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance). Already a boxoffice smash in Korea, Thirst was honored with the Prix du Jury [Jury Prize] at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival.

From the Academy Award®-winning director and world-renowned Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki comes PONYO, a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Little Mermaid. Already a box-office success in Japan, the story of a young and overeager goldfish named Ponyo (voiced by NOAH CYRUS) and her quest to become human features an outstanding roster of voice talent, including CATE BLANCHETT, MATT DAMON, TINA FEY, FRANKIE JONAS, CLORIS LEACHMAN, LIAM NEESON, LILY TOMLIN and BETTY WHITE.

When I get cranky, I get cranky at others. When others are cranky, I get cranky at them. When everyone's cranky with their own issues, we get cranky at each other and some decapitations may ensue. But, when we're all cranky at the same person, thing, or an event, we can laugh it off together and actually enjoy being a bunch of cranky, immature grownups that we are.

I wake up in the morning with the need to know the time: my hand hunts for my phone, my eyes gasp for air, and four digits of visual data gets registered in my head. Although my memory insists that I must rise from my bed and head towards the bathroom, I instantly consider disobeying and suppress that thought for a moment with the back of my neck crying a rhythmic, acoustic pop. Here I realize that friction has begun.

Dragon Wars is a personal movie for me. Some of you may already know that I'm Korean and that Dragon Wars too shares the same origin, so this may not come as a surprise. And let's be honest here: there's no way for me not to favor something Korean over something that isn't. Of course, oftentimes this may be so insignificant that it doesn't affect anything fundamental, but being minuscule shouldn't negate it.

These days time passes by so quickly. But the funny thing is that I've never learned to cherish time despite realizing my stay here is short.

It's late at night, much later than I intended to stay awake, and like myself, not every life form follows the human clock: there's a dog next door barking at something I do not care much about. Still, I at least signal that I am aware of its presence by turning my head towards the window. There I see my own reflection. There weren't any reflections during daytime when the sun was shining bright. In darkness, however, everything lit shows up on both sides of the glass. A street sign, a notebook monitor, my face, and my hands. Here I discover a balance: for them and myself to coexist, I need to be just as strong as the ones outside.