Abort the Boycott. Midway Makes Good With The NYAFF.

Man, good thing.. Midway was probably sweatin' bullets, worried they couldn't recoup without Todd's purchase of Stranglehold.

Do you credit your boycott with having had persuasion, Todd?

Considering that the story was picked up by a number of gaming magazines and Google News, yeah, it had an impact. A film site being irked at them has little impact, gamers turning on them is a different story, though.

True fact: It was a Twitch article on Paris Hilton that caused chaos in the Los Angeles courts today...

Why am I even on-line? It's friday...I have a girlfriend. Surely I should be with her and not spending time with my online cinematic mistress.

And yet, the flesh and blood girlfriend knows nothing about Asian cinema. *sigh*

That IS a dilemma. On the San Francisco front our local critic Mick LaSalle deigned to review Paprika. That caused some tongues to wag. LaSalle has made his contempt for animation widely known and has been upfront about choosing reviews of Criterion material before anyone else at The Chronicle, except the Asian fare, which he has no time for and considers subordinates can handle.