Quickies: Flesh Gordon, Anatomy of a Fall, Saltburn, Fitzcarraldo, Patio of Illusion, Postman Fights Back

Time for six and I will start with a funny story… I have always wanted to see Flash Gordon (1980) mainly because Queen wrote the music for it. A few months ago I chanced upon the blu-ray and I just clicked “buy”. I have hundreds of un-watched blu-rays and this one was just lying in […]

Sleep (2023)

Sleep (2023) begins with a familiar sound. Choo would say it is the noise that keeps her awake on sleepless nights. Seeing me sound asleep, while sleep eludes her, is one of life’s greatest ironies for her. That’s what she says every time, but I heard nothing that would keep me awake. 😊 This is […]

Quickies: City of Sadness, Last Hurrah for Chivalry, The Uncanny Counter S2, Mask Girl, Shortcomings, The Flash

City of Sadness (1989): The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror” that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s. I can finally chalk this off from my must-see list. Being a Hou Hsiao-Hsien film, I know I will be […]

An Album a Week (47): First Mind – Nick Mulvey

I have always loved the guitar but I am lousy with playing it. However, I did manage to fulfil one of my life-long dreams – to play the guitar and perform a song in front of an audience of at least a hundred. The song was Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours”, my guitar teacher was my […]

An Album a Week (20): True – Spandau Ballet

Tony Hadley was supposed to perform on our shores but sadly the pandemic happened and it was postponed indefinitely. I have no idea if the concert even happened eventually. Hadley was of course the former frontman of Spandau Ballet who gave us so many monster hits that ruled the airwaves in the 80s like “True”, […]

Quickies: Nomadland, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Sound of Metal, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Promising Young Woman

It’s time to catch up with the good films that appeared on critics’ best-of-2020 list in preparation for the Oscars, but I have to say not being able to catch these movies in the cinema is a sad sad thing. It’s just not the same thing watching these movies at home even if my home […]

TV Series: Better Call Saul (S4 & S5)

I will start off by apologising for not penning a review for S4 of the brilliant Better Call Saul. I think I got lazy. After completing S5 I knew I had to pay homage to some of the best, if not the best, TV ever. In the Breaking Bad universe my lame excuse would have […]

Hitman: Agent Jun (2020)

When the kids in my writing classes are bereft of story ideas, I always remind them to think of an actual incident they have experienced, do a slight (or hard) left turn and let it ripped from there. In Hitman: Agent Jun, webtoon artist Jun (Kwon Sang-Woo) is at his wits’ end. Nothing he draws […]

Remembering Yasmin Ahmad (1958 – 2009)

When Yasmin Ahmad passed away in 2009, we lost not only an exceptional screen writer and director, we lost an amazing storyteller. She was a Malaysian, but through her films, short films and numerous commercials, I see loving portrayals of multi-racial societies that would resonate with any Singaporean. Since then, I don’t know about you, […]

Concert (20 Sep 2019) – For Tracy Hyde

I heard about the band, For Tracy Hyde, through a friend a couple of weeks ago and a few days later he informed me they will be here. The concert only cost $12! And I even got to check out three other local bands: Sobs, Susurrus and Cosmic Child. Hey! Did you just wiki Tracy […]

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