I don’t see why a digitally bootlegged Episode II should make headlines. Back in SE Asia, the sidewalks were strewn with VCD’s of movies filmed straight out of the cinema long before the films’ release dates. You could even hear the audience laughing and see people walking in front of the screen.

A rather scathing review of Attack of the Clones from the New York Times. (Login required.) One thing interests me greatly: Yoda dueling. Or, as I prefer to call it, “Yodeuling.”