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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Foreign'
Apple Of My Eye – A Taiwanese Movie, A Nostalgic One For Me
October 10th, 2011 No Comments
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
Incendies: Powerful And Moving
August 29th, 2011 10 Comments
Art house type of movies is not for everyone. So I watched “Incendies” alone while Cynthia was having a haircut. I only had a vague idea of what this movie is about when I bought the ticket. I left the theater shaken, deeply moved. This could well be one of the best movies I have [...]
Tags: French Film
Wu Xia – Is Donnie Yen Enough to Save This Film?
July 26th, 2011 8 Comments
For the past one week, Cynthia has been nudging me to watch “Wu Xia”. Normally she is not into Chinese movie, so I was curious. Then I found out that Takeshi Kaneshiro is starring in the movie. I suppose her fascination to Takeshi is like mine to Shu Qi. I was still unmoved until she [...]
Tags: Chinese Film · Donnie Yen · Takeshi Kaneshiro · Tang Wei
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
Natali – The Korean Erotic Film In 3D, And What Could’ve Been
March 31st, 2011 No Comments
When asked, my replied to Cynthia was, “Too much talking, not enough drama.” She laughed, in broad daylight, “Not enough sex you mean?” It was my turn to laugh, “No, no, no. I really mean not enough drama.” It was a beautiful Thursday afternoon. I could have felt much happier, if not for that sad, [...]
Tags: Hyun-Jin Park · Ji-hoon Kim · Korean Film · Seong-jae Lee
A Better Tomorrow – Emotional, And Gripping!
January 4th, 2011 9 Comments
TK, our partner-in-crime in Movie Review Squad texted Cynthia when we were waiting to board our plane, on New Year’s day, back to Singapore. I was still on a Zen mode, cut off from any Internet access for more than a week. And so, after numerous text exchanges between TK and Cynthia discussing the logistics [...]
Tags: Korean Film
The Housemaid – More Than Just A Korean Erotic Thriller
November 9th, 2010 5 Comments
I remember seeing the movie poster of “The Housemaid” when we were in Hong Kong. Back then, we picked a Spanish film to watch instead. I am surprised. More often than not, films get released in Singapore earlier than in Hong Kong. When Omy.sg sent me a media invite to preview the movie, I eagerly [...]
Tags: blogger event · Jeon Do-yeon · Korean Film · Lee Jung-jae · omy.sg