Itâs 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 Netflixâs Baby Reindeer is the one for you. Donât pay any attention to the cute title, this one might just bring the dark […]
Read more "Quickies: Baby Reindeer, Fallout, ShĹgun"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. MujĂ´ (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: MujĂ´ (This Transient Life), Ripley, Paratyse: The Grey"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: âWhy are we watching horror tonight.â 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 donât 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"Deathâs Game is a recommendation by a total stranger who reads what I post. With nothing really compelling to watch, I told Choo about Deathâs Game and we give ep1 a shot. We are now at ep6 and will be done tonight. I am already counting down the minutes till Choo is back this evening. […]
Read more "Prime: Deathâs Game (2023)"On the eve of the New Year, I asked my niece to give me the lowdown on some dramas on my watch list, Designated Survivor (Korean), Welcome to Samdal-ri and My Demon and whether I should dive into any of them. She gave me the quick Cliff-notes versions of all of them and instead pointed […]
Read more "TV Series: Light the Night (ĺçŻĺä¸) (2021-2022)"Every year I like to do a write-up on music, movies and TV shows that I enjoyed in the year. It has become a ritual and itâs a ritual that I like. Choo always tells me not to bother because nobody cares. She might be right but this has evolved to become a personal ritual […]
Read more "My Favourite Albums, Movies and TV Shows of 2023"I was feeling under the weather and didnât get to muse on movies and shows for a while. Normal transmission will now resume⌠Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) is an engrossing movie for sure, all 206 minutes of it. It brings to light a dark time in early 1920s Oklahoma when oil was discovered […]
Read more "Quickies: Killers of the Flower Moon, Interview With the Vampire, The Fall of the House of Usher, Fair Play, The Burial, Made in Heaven"Time for 6 quick ones⌠We have finally jumped on the Moving (2023) bandwagon. When one person recommended it I put it at the back of my watch-list (depending on who recommends it); when the second person recommended it, it jumped to the front of the queue; when the third person recommended it, I stopped […]
Read more "Quickies: Moving, Lost in the Stars, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Renfield, Ice Kachang Puppy Love, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes"A Haunting in Venice (2023) is the third film in the Agatha Christie franchise and it marks the first film that is not a remake. Based on Christieâs Halloweâen Party (1969), it finds Poirot retired in post-World War II Venice. He is now living in his own exile and reluctantly attends a seance. But when […]
Read more "Quickies: A Haunting in Venice, Only Murders in the Building (S3), Welcome to Wrexham (S2), Someday or One Day"
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