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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Drama'
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 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
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
Watching Break Up Club The Second Time
July 17th, 2011 2 Comments
If you recall, one night I had a terrible insomnia. And one of the few activities I did awake in my supposed sleeping hours was to watch the Blu-ray version of a Hong Kong movie called “Break Up Club” on my TV (wearing my wireless headset of course). I love it so much that when [...]
Tags: Fiona Sit · Hong Kong film · Jaycee Chan
BECK – Something Is Best Left To Our Imagination
June 1st, 2011 No Comments
Judging by the observation that almost all the audiences in the albeit small movie theater stayed till the very end of the credits – which by the way is rare in the movie going scene here in Singapore – this Japanese production BECK has certainly touched the audiences’ hearts. BECK is a story about the [...]
Tags: Japanese Film
Norwegian Wood – A Film Adaptation Of Haruki Murakami’s Novel
April 16th, 2011 5 Comments
Haruki Murakami is one of my favorite writers. I do not think it is possible to bring any of his books into a big screen. Because much of the content is based on the characters’ observation and their state of emotion, or even the writer’s observation on the world he creates. His story tends to [...]
Tags: Haruki Murakami · Japanese Film · Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Kiko Mizuhara · Rinko Kikuchi
Morning Glory – She Really Loves Her Job!
April 10th, 2011 No Comments
Cynthia knows me well. I think Rachel McAdams is the most beautiful actress on earth. So when she suggested watching “Morning Glory”, she just needed to say: It has your favorite actress in it, the one you think most beautiful. Cynthia also likes Rachel McAdams in this movie. She thinks Rachel is perky. I like [...]
Tags: Diane Keaton · Harrison Ford · Rachel McAdams
The King’s Speech – “Terribly Good”
February 13th, 2011 No Comments
“Terribly good”, so said one of the audiences behind us at the end of the show. This movie, “The King’s Speech”, has attracted quite a crowd of Westerners. It must have been moving for some to see King George VI of UK playing on the big screen. He is the father and predecessor of Queen [...]
Tags: Colin Firth · Geoffrey Rush · Helena Bonham Carter
Black Swan – How I Love …
February 6th, 2011 8 Comments
Chinese New Year is a time we spend it with our family and in our case, ‘extended’ family. At the stroke of midnight, Cynthia, our gaming buddy Mark, and I were in our goblin form (with two others) battling gnomes and machines inside the dungeon Gnomeregan. We did not notice the time until we saw [...]
Tags: Mila Kunis · Natalie Portman · Vincent Cassel
The Fighter – What An Intense And Surprising Performance!
January 16th, 2011 2 Comments
What a surprise! I am seeing the casting in a whole new light. I would not have thought that Christian Bale can act. Like really act. I was weary if Bale was going to have that batman voice – artificially low and harsh barely above the audible range (for humans that is, not sure for [...]
Tags: Amy Adams · Christian Bale · Mark Wahlberg