It’s now 6:09 am Thursday in Hanoi (3:09 pm LA time, Wednesday) and I have 55 minutes before heading back to Hanoi airport and the 9:20 am flight to Danang. And by the way…


Downtown Hanoi, looking north from my 9th-floor room at the Hanoi Movenpick — Thursday, 11.22, 6:05 am.

I was feeling okay about missing this weekend’s early-bird Les Miserables and Zero Dark Thirty screenings because the embargo review dates were 12.11 and 12.5 , respectively, which would have allowed me to see them and file concurrently after my return on 11.30. But Sony has now changed the ZDT review date to Sunday, 11.25, or as quickly as reviewers can post after they see it at the Pacific Design Center. The ball is in Les Miz‘s court.