Having worked in the financial market industries for quite some years, both Cynthia and I found the movie “Margin Call” pretty realistic. There are moments in the movies when we chuckled at the rather private jokes (OK, maybe not that private, but we have not worked in other industries for long to be frank). And [...]
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Margin Call – “It Is Just Money”
December 30th, 2011 2 Comments
Tags: Demi Moore · Jeremy Irons · Kevin Spacey · Paul Bettany · Simon Baker · Stanley Tucci
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – A Deeper Look Into The Saga Thus Far
November 28th, 2011 6 Comments
Cue to perfection, at the very nanosecond that this show was ended, the dude next to me bellowed in pain. For a good ten or twenty seconds, I wasn’t counting. It could well be half a minute. I was giggling. I could feel his pain, even though I could not relate. Like having 117 minutes [...]
Tags: Twilight Saga
Puss In Boots – Too Cute To Even Think
November 22nd, 2011 No Comments
Life can be like scenes from your favorite movies. Take today as an example. I felt like being Rachel McAdams in “Morning Glory“. I was excited to face the day, with added responsibility as one of our colleagues was on compassionate leave. No problem. In our team, we watch over each other’s back. We are there [...]
Tags: Antonio Banderas
Drive – Memorable Story, Great Soundtrack
November 12th, 2011 No Comments
OK. Yet another Gosling movie. This one is good. Much darker than I have expected. It is an artistic movie that captivates. In this movie, Gosling drives cars and works in a garage. He seldom talks. In fact, a good chunk of the movie contains no dialogues. As an audience, in most part, I would [...]
Tags: Carey Mulligan · Ryan Gosling
The Ides of March – Politics, And More Politics
November 12th, 2011 No Comments
When we told our friends that we have watched “The Ides of March” on November fifth, the most common response would be, “The what?”. Ides! Then we added, “That Clooney show”. Or I think we should have said, “That Gosling show”. Gosling is involved in quite a few films these days. He must be one [...]
Tags: Evan Rachel Wood · George Clooney · Ryan Gosling
Friends With Benefits – Mila Is Adorable
October 16th, 2011 No Comments
I don’t think it has anything to do with aging (I hope). It was a pretty hectic week at work. In some instances, you can almost measure how overloaded one is by observing the number of mistakes one begins to make. I read the showtime of 17:30 as 7.30pm, which was obviously wrong. Saturday traffic [...]
Tags: Justin Timberlake · Mila Kunis
Apple Of My Eye – A Taiwanese Movie, A Nostalgic One For Me
October 10th, 2011 No Comments
How many of us end up spending the rest of our lives with our school day sweethearts? Do you remember the time when love was so awkward, so childish? We kept on reading and sending the signals wrongly, but yet our puppy love affair appeared to be at the center of our universe, all that [...]
Tags: omy.sg · Taiwanese Film
Tatsumi Directed By Eric Khoo
September 11th, 2011 2 Comments
For some strange reasons, my public life as you can see here is so full of movies these days. I can assure you that my passion lies in a sea of ocean, including tracking that lost penguin on a daily basis. Poor Happy Feet. We have not heard from him since September 8. Fairy tales [...]
Tags: Eric Khoo
The Hanged Man (Spanish Title: El Juego Del Ahorcado)
September 11th, 2011 No Comments
As we left the Shaw Lido cinema after the omy.com movie premiere event, I have spotted a huge poster that I could not take my eyes away from. It is a Spanish movie. What a coincidence. In our last Spanish class, our replacement teacher Gloria was asking us if there are Spanish movies playing in [...]
Tags: Álvaro Cervantes · Clara Lago · Spanish Film
Crazy, Stupid, Love – Finding Your Manhood
September 11th, 2011 No Comments
Cynthia was pretty hyped up about “Crazy, Stupid, Love”. TK went along with the romance comedy wagon. I am a huge fan of romance comedy films. Except, I think, “Crazy, Stupid, Love” is more like a drama of romance than a comedy. Most bits are rather real, rather sad. The 40-year-old virgin (now close to [...]
Tags: Emma Stone · Julianne Moore · Ryan Gosling · Steve Carell