TV Series: Flower of Evil (2020)

Flower of Evil (2020) begins with an intriguing scene (it is featured in the MVs so it’s hardly a spoiler). A man has both his hands tied to a bar at the bottom of a pool and the water has risen to just above his head. He is struggling to breathe and he is knocking […]

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

1984 was an eventful year. Let’s see… Indira Gandhi was murdered by her trusted bodyguards, UK and China came to an agreement that Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997. In pop-culture, 44 members of Band Aid came together to record the phenomenal single Do They Know It’s Christmas? The most popular movies were […]

The Call (2020)

Coincidentally, I am headlong into a couple of literature involving time travel. In Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold, there is a particular seat in a basement cafe that allows anyone to go back to the past but no matter what happens in the past, the present will not change. In Brian K. Vaughan’s […]

My Missing Valentine (消失的情人节) (2020)

There’s a scene that occurs in a cinema and the audience is about to watch a funny scene. Suddenly, a fit of laughter rings out. A second later, the rest of the audience erupt in peals of hearty laughter. Then, out of somewhere in the darkened hall, a lone fit of laughter reverberates in the […]

Voice of Silence (2020)

“Name me the movies that featured ‘cleaners’.” “Léon…. Nikita… there’s another… wait a second… John Wick.” That’s the type of conversations my better half and I have in the car while driving to and from our usual movie dates. I got to hand it to her in that I don’t even need to explain the […]

Number 1 (2020)

Number 1 is painted in broad strokes, albeit colourful ones. So this review will similarly be written in broad strokes. Chow Chee Beng (Mark Lee) was served his retrenchment letter in an inopportune time. He has a new SUV and a landed property that have not been paid for. Desperate for a job, any job, […]

His House (2020)

Horror is the most versatile genre, but the great ones are a needle in a haystack. His House knocks on the anteroom of great horror films, offering solid scares, an emotionally powerful story and a pair of emphatic characters. I watched part of this with my fingers stuck in my ears so you know I […]

Mini-Series: The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

Mike Flanagan’s storytelling ability has grown by leaps and bounds. Oculus (2013), Hush (2016) and Gerald’s Game (2017) show he is adept in chamber horror settings that are characterised by psychological terror emanating from a small cast. The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and Doctor Sleep (2019) are clear demonstrations he is perfectly splendid with […]

I’m Livin’ It (2020)

There’s a game I love to play when I am out galavanting. If I chance upon an item that has no rhyme or reason strewn on the street, I would ask my wife to tell me the story of how that thing (be it one side of a slipper or a bouquet of flowers sitting […]

Tenet (2020)

There is an early scene where pseudoscience involving time inversion is being explained by a scientist to The Protagonist. “Don’t try to understand it. Feel it.” That’s probably also an advice for the audience who at that point is about to be thrown into the deep end of quantum physics and thermodynamics. You would wish […]

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