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"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"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"Time for 6 and this is just a selection from a lot more I have seen since I last posted. On the eve of Chinese New Year, I screened a horror double-bill at home without consulting Choo. Half an hour into Saw X (2023), Choo uttered: “Why are we watching horror tonight.” I replied her […]
Read more "Quickies: Saw X, Talk To Me, The Holdovers, Table For Six 2, Marry My Husband, 1923"Time for 6 quick ones… Argylle (2024) is about a reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes the plot of the new book she’s writing starts to mirror real-world events, in real time. The action comedy is helmed by Mathew Vaughn whose movies don’t colour within […]
Read more "Quickies: Argylle, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Mourning Forest, A Shop of Killers, True Detective: Night Country, Mr and Mrs Smith"Time for six… We saw Old Fox (2022) at Vivo City. All through the 45-minute journey back, Choo and I had a spirited discourse about the movie. I live for these moments. Interestingly, I wouldn’t say it’s a deep movie and it actually encompasses the simple idea of temptation, but the entire package is utterly […]
Read more "Quickies: Old Fox, Cream Soda & Milk, Hand Rolled Cigarette, The Brothers Sun, The Trial, Home For Rent"
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