Sometimes there are movies that I feel compelled to write about, not so much because they are good or I want to recommend them but because they won’t let me go. They trap me in a stranglehold and I begin to see re-enactments of scenes in real life. Sometimes, in the deep of the night, […]
Read more "Quickies: A Woman After a Killer Butterfly, Possession, The Fall Guy"It’s me again and I have 3 great shows to recommend… If your idea of entertainment is getting all stressed out, screaming expletives at the TV and tearing your hair out, then Netflix’s Baby Reindeer is the one for you. Don’t pay any attention to the cute title, this one might just bring the dark […]
Read more "Quickies: Baby Reindeer, Fallout, Shōgun"Just 3 this week and we finished Fallout last night and are going to start Shogun real soon. I will save that for another day. I will start with something challenging. Mujô (1970), which also goes by This Transient Life, is a Japanese erotic drama film directed by Akio Jissoji, in his feature directorial debut. […]
Read more "Quickies: Mujô (This Transient Life), Ripley, Paratyse: The Grey"I picked up an important lesson from a shocker of a scene in Civil War, probably the most unnerving scene in the entire movie for me. If I ever find myself left high and dry in a war torn America with a thug pointing a M16 in my face and if he were to ask […]
Read more "Civil War (2024)"Used up all my creative juice for the Indonesian movie, so just 3 will suffice and I choose these 3… 100 Yen Love (2014), I wanted to see because I saw the Chinese remake YOLO recently and I was very curious to see how Jia Ling adapted the movie. This post will be full of […]
Read more "Quickies: 100 Yen Love, Monkey Man, Article 20"Back in 2022, during Billie Eilish’s concert at the National Stadium, I was sitting in the expensive seats in the house, but I felt that the standing crowd was having all the fun. I made a vow that fateful night that the next big act to grace the stadium, I would be among the standing […]
Read more "Concert (5 March 2024): Bruno Mars"Sometimes, there comes a movie that vivifies everything you know about a genre and you want to give your loudest and heartiest shout-out to everyone you know to watch it. It is the type of movie that coasts along, never making its presence felt, except for a select group of audience. It is the type […]
Read more "Jatuh Cinta Seperti Di Film-Film (Falling in Love Like in the Movies) (2023)"If there is one genre of film I love the most, it’s the sport genre film. Even the weakest and lamest ones are still enjoyable but the greatest ones like Rocky and Million Dollar Baby will stay with you for life. The narrative structure employed to tell the story seldom sways too much from an […]
Read more "YOLO (热辣滚烫) (2024)"Time for six, three, I can only manage three. Dune: Part 2 (2024), we saw on opening night and just like the first part, it made me feel like climbing up to the rooftop of the highest building and shout: “THIS IS CINEMA!” Denis Villeneuve has once again rewritten how epic sci-fi can be and […]
Read more "Quickies: Dune: Part 2, Exhuma, OMG 2"There is a discussion Choo and I will always have when certain songs come up on the iPod in my car. These particular songs will trigger vivid memories which had been seared into the deep recesses of our consciousness. We will start to talk about the concerts we had graced and sometimes we would go […]
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