I can understand why this film receives mixed reviews. And I can also understand why this film is doing quite well, commercially speaking. Audiences love to feel good. We love to see our heroes beating up the bad guys, many bad guys. And we hate to see our heroes getting hurt or get killed. “The [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Movie Reviews'
The Expendables – Now, That Is Loud
August 29th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Jason Statham · Jet Li · Sylvester Stallone
Salt – It Is Angelina Jolie! Gasp!
August 10th, 2010 2 Comments
What’s there to like about Angelina Jolie, Cynthia would ask. Sigh. Need I say, really. Her lips? Her sexy back? Her Lara Croft come alive body shape? Her guns and ass kicking action takes? Well, none of the above; all of the above and more. So I dragged Cynthia to watch “Salt” at our favorite [...]
Tags: Angelina Jolie · Liev Schreiber
Au Revoir Taipei – Comically Cute
July 31st, 2010 No Comments
Friday evening. Time to celebrate the end of a rather long week of work. I picked a Taiwanese romance comedy. Cynthia wondered why the randomness of my choice. Because we seldom watch Chinese movies. At the end of the movie, Cynthia was pleasantly surprised. And I was pleasantly surprised by her not hating it. I [...]
Tags: Amber Kuo · Frankie Gao · Jack Yao · Joseph Chang · Lawrence Ko · Taiwanese Film
The Blood Pledge – Horror Not For Horror’s Sake, Good Stuff!
July 26th, 2010 4 Comments
Once in a while, I am handed a free pass to do something I love to do in the evening, alone. Last Friday, Cynthia has to attend a non-work related workshop. The first thing I did, like in the past, was to pick a horror film to watch, alone. “The Blood Pledge” is a Korean [...]
Tags: Korean Film
Inception – Into Subconscious and Dream Whereby Logic Supposes To Dissolve
July 18th, 2010 6 Comments
The idea is tantalizing. Imagine being able to architect your dream, bring others into your dream or trespass into others’ dreams, and if you wish to retain certain fond memories of the past, lock them up inside your head and visit them as often as you like. On the surface, “Inception” appears to be a movie with an [...]
Tags: Christopher Nolan · Cillian Murphy · Ellen Page · Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Ken Watanabe · Leonardo DiCaprio · Marion Cotillard · Michael Caine · Tom Hardy
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – So Far So Good
July 8th, 2010 No Comments
OK. I promise I am not going to poke fun at the Twilight Saga like before. Looking at the record breaking ticket sales, I think the fanatic fans have gone beyond caring about what the critics say and have dived straight into yet another episode of this bizarre love triangle of a vampire, a werewolf, [...]
Tags: Dakota Fanning · Kristen Stewart · Robert Pattinson · Taylor Lautner · Twilight Saga
The Losers – Actually Pretty Fun To Watch!
May 24th, 2010 No Comments
How come I have watched so many movies lately? In recent Spanish classes, our teacher often asks what we have done over the weekend. Most of us would have watched at least one or two movies. One dude has watched Iron Man 2 twice! OK. The power of peer pressure. But still, what do Singaporeans [...]
Tags: Chris Evans · Jeffrey Dean Morgan · Zoe Saldana
Snow Prince – What Hard Life This Little Boy Has
May 23rd, 2010 No Comments
This Japanese movie is going to make lots of girls tear, though not the quite the same way as “10 Promises to My Dog” as one would have expected. The story begins with a mysterious manuscript that arrives at the hands of a grandmother and her granddaughter. And the manuscript tells a story of a [...]
Tags: Japanese Film
The Runaways – Got Me Nostalgic Thinking About Rock Bands Of The Past
May 10th, 2010 3 Comments
I used to read biography of the bands formed in the 60′s and 70′s. Most with tragic beginning or ending or both. Sex, drug, and rock and roll. Bands that could not stay together, for whatever reason. The amount of angst and feeling poured into the lyrics and the music. The sacrifices too. Music of that [...]
Tags: Dakota Fanning · Joan Jett · Kristen Stewart
Iron Man 2 Bled My Ears
May 8th, 2010 11 Comments
Normally, I love watching movies at Cathay’s cinemas. Unfortunately, the Digital 4K version at Cinelesiure bled my ears. I found it hard to enjoy the movie when the volume is so high. The low frequency vibration was impressive though. My entire body shook as Iron Man and the pursuing enemies fly low underneath the highway. That [...]
Tags: Don Cheadle · Gwyneth Paltrow · Robert Downey Jr. · Samuel L. Jackson · Scarlett Johansson
) Keep reading, taking photograph, make music and...