Whenever I met this friend of mine – whose identity I wish to protect here – inevitably we (or rather he) would talk about making money from the stock market, about his portfolio, which I estimate to be close to a million dollar by now. Or over half a million. Either way, it is way [...]
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Michael Moore Did It Again With Capitalism: A Love Story
November 15th, 2009 8 Comments
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated – Hard To Relate To
February 9th, 2008 No Comments
It is hard for me to relate to the magnitude of filmmakers’ disappointment after being handed a NC-17 rating in America (no children 17 and under admitted) when here in Singapore, we have the R21 rating (for above 21s). Nor do I necessarily agree with the proposition that rating should be given and can be appealed based on [...]
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Nanking – A Powerful Documentary Inspired by the Late Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking
December 15th, 2007 4 Comments
When I first saw the bombs landed on Iraq’s capital Baghdad on CNN, I felt the tears at the back of my eyes. I had the same feeling when I watched the Japanese in “Nanking” dropping the bombs onto the city of China, Nanking – even a more intense feeling. I was gasping for air. [...]
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Fast Food Nation – A Humanistic View In A Relatively Inhumane Setting
January 7th, 2007 2 Comments
When I was young, back in Hong Kong, I used to watch my mother making fish balls. My mother would first choose the fresh fish from the wet market, bring it home, painstakingly remove the bones, marinate the meat, put it into a blender, and to make it into fish balls, she would place a [...]
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Borat – You Either Love It Or Hate It
December 29th, 2006 2 Comments
If indeed true that this is a documentary film made with real people in real situations, I really pity some of the people who were caught in this one big giant reality TV series in the expense of the audience’s laughter. Borat, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, left his home country Kazakhstan traveled into America [...]
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“Flags Of Our Fathers” Paved The Way for “Letters From Iwo Jima”
December 16th, 2006 1 Comment
Centered to DreamWorks Picture’s “Flag Of Our Fathers”, directed by Clint Eastwod, is that one photo that was taken when five Marines and one Navy Corpsman raised the US flag on Mount Suribachi during World War II. The battle of Iwo Jima was violent when Americans first landed on the Japanese soil. Back in the [...]
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