Full review coming soon (when i am zo-boing)

Cape No. 7 - 3/5 Stars

Quantum of Solace - 2.75/5 Stars

Reviews

Directed By: Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener)
Starring: Julianne Morre, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal & Alice Braga
Rating: 4/5

Based on a Nobel winning Novel, this movie had been slammed by crtics critically around the world due to its sensitive issues with human morales and especially for portraying blind people comparing them to "monsters".

This movie ranked in my Top 10 most "awkward and uneasy movies to watch on a first date" ranking table which consisted of Requiem of A Dream, The Machinist, Oldboy and The nortorius Brown Bunny. The rape scene in the movie will especially make u finched and feeling uneasy throughout the movie.

I would describe this movie as a zombie movie like I am Legend and 28 Days Later, just that this time the zombies are real humans who has turned blind. Interestingly all the characters in the movies had no names, their character are namely known as "The Doctor", "The Doctor Wife", "Man of Ward 1 #4" and "King of Ward 3" which I think is clever showing what a "blind world" is like. Using white instead of the usual black in a world of darkness was a fresh idea which works well in the ending especially when Julianne Moore character look up the sky full of white thinking if she has turned blind.

But the main point of this drama is showing us the ugly sides of humanity to us "norms" how extreme situations and fighting for survival bring out the worst of us humans. The movie is being slammed for portraying blind people badly but I think it is more of showing how ugly and disgusted humans can be when they are left in a situation like this. An eg. maybe you might think you are a really good person who loves your family, your friends and even your dog. But when left in a do or die desperate time of choices would you not betray your family and friends and even kill your dog for food?

But this movie had it loopholes and dosen't make sense logics. Julianne Moore character as the only person who can see, why did she allow herself to be manipulated by the bastards and allow herself and the other women to be raped and tortured when she clearly had the advantage of sight?

Though this is still a really great movie i think that every humans should watch.


Directed By: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Fargo, No Country For Old Man)
Starring: Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich
Rating: 3.5/5

Just to let you all know please do not miss the 5 mins of this movie or you will be like me trying to figure out throughout the movie how the characters interlinked and the main plot of the story.

This is a really smart movie trying to tell us how dumb human can be, even the FBIs. Smartly intervine linkage of the characters, which causes like a chain reaction in the way the movie moves. But you need to really pay attention what is going on.

This movie is only alright to me as the Coens had done similar movies and done better before like The Big Lebowski and O Brother where Art Thou. But I thought the characters were really fun especially for George and Brad.

How I wish I can get to act Brad Pitt character...


Directed By: Ben Stiller (Zoolander, Cable Guy)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black
Rating:3.75/5

This movie gotta be the biggest budget comedy ever. And for playing a war movie in a movie, it might even exceed the cost of an actual war movie.

The dialogues are really hilarious, but you must be a really big movie fan to know what are the jokes about, joking about Hollywood, acting jargons, character acting and movies comparisons with the Rain Man and Forrest Gump.

The opening of the movie with 3 movie trailer and a drink commercial, especially the trailer starring Robert Downey and Tobey Maguire playing gay priests was hilarious. The main 3 characters parody the 3 main types of actors in Hollywood, the guy who acted in blockbuster movies who actually can't act (Ben Stiller), the guy that acted in stupid comedies and fart movies joke (Jack Black), and the last guy who will goes through all sorts of thing to be in the character portray who also happens to wins all sorts of awards (Robert D Jr.)

The actions and explosives scenes were really cowabunga! Stunning actions which can even put Saving Private Ryan or Apocalyse Now to shame. The first 10 mins of the movies can be as good as any top 100 movies of all time. The last half hour dialogue of the movies was really funny and smart, the problem is with the middle of the movie. The jokes dosen't make you laugh and makes no sense.

The cameos in this movies are alright only too. People had raves about how funny Tom Cruise is inside as the money loving producer who only caresa about making money. I actually find it funny while watching too, but to think back, what if this guy isn't Tom Cruise and just some unknown guy, we find it funny only because Tom Cruise play dumb.

Robert Downey Jr. I think is the only funny guy and standout in the movie, I think he can even win a Oscar for this but we all know the Academy don't watch comedies. Everything this guy has recently appeared in is great. I am beginning to love this guy.


Directed By: Guy Ritchie (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch)
Starring: Gerald Butler, Thandie Newton, Tom Wilkinson
Rating: 3.25/5

After a recent list of flops, Guy Ritchie goes back what he do best, movies about crimes, sex and drugs. ANd something new Rock n Roll! Actually its a story of sex, thugs and rock n roll to be exact.

Friends around me had been recommending this movie to me, but if you had watched Snatch and Lock Stock before, the 2 will makes this movie looks bad. After starting nicely with his trademark quickpans and quick cuts,t he first 1 hour of the movie was a bore in the ass. The performance are cool but the dialogues wasn't and dosen't talk sense (although usually his movie dosen't talk sense too), leading the story no where. It started to get really funny when Gerald Butler and his Co. got chased and that was when I started to realise I was watching a comedy. It ended quite alright but the twist dosen't even feel like a twist at all.

And also the shortest sex scene in movie history might be the greatest sex scene of all, blink and you might just missed it.











AND LASTLY

THE COFFIN which I don't even want to bother reviewing cause it sucks to the core. I will still give it a rating though. 0.75/5

Posters!

Synecdoche, New York - From the writer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich, Academy Award winning screenwriter brings his directorial debut to the big screen.


Valkyrie- Tom Cruise starring as the only guy who dared to opposed Adolf Hitler during his cruel reign in WW2, directed by Bryan Singer (Usual Suspects, X-Men 1,2)


Changeling - One of my favourite director Clint Eastwood next movie, starring Angelina Jolie.


The Spirit - Character poster, the posters coming from this movie are just so freaking cool, this is gonna be a collector collection.


The Pleasure of Being Robbed- An interesting indie poster i spotted recently.


Angels & Demons - Sequel of Da Vinci Code, which is a very bad movie.



Zack & Miri Make A Porno - The banned poster (in US) of the sex comedy which as you can see, the gesture of oral sex.



Zack & Miri Make A Porno - To show their unhappiness in a sort of protest, the movie producers design another version of the poster, which you can see is clearly done in 2 mins.



Dear Zachary - I donno what this movie is about, but clearly the poster looks more like a book cover.

Good movies coming soon...

Movies I am recommending from now till end of October.

Tropic Thunder - Anticipation Level 10/10
With 3 big funny men in 3 leads in a movie, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert D. Jr, it got to be really funny. (hopefully)

Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Anticipation Level 6/10
Woody Allen has its recent seem of flops, but with well known acting cast like Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Scarlet Johansson in it, it get to be good.

RocknRolla- Anticipation Level 7/10
With this kind of title and a rocking director (Guy Ritchie) with a rolling wife (Madonna) and rave reviews so far, i can;t wait to see this myself.

Eagle Eye - Anticipation Level 8/10
With the movie associated with Speilberg and up and rising star Shia Labeouf, this means this movie gonna be big and explosive. From its trailer, I am expecting this to be good, even though Jumper let me down before.

Burn After Reading- Anticipation Level 9/10
Great award winning cast and directors, if you likes movies you gotta watch this.

Body Of Lies- Anticipation Level 7/10
The publicity of this movie has been really quiet so far thus I am not giving high hopes for this, but with Russell Crowe and Leo Di Carpio in this Ridley Scott directed thriller I am not expecting too little from this too.

Pineapple Express - Anticipation Level 8/10
From the gang of people who bring you the best comedies in recent years (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad), comes this comedy starring the ever funny Seth Rogen and Green Goblin, James Franco.

City of Ember- Anticipation Level 7/10
From the director of Monster House ( 1 of the really good animated movies outside of Pixar in recent years) and starring Bill Murray (my favourite actor) I am really looking forward to October man.

Appaloosa- Anticipation Level 5/10
Recent western flicks standard have been really high, and this coming directed by Ed Harris, a brilliant actor himself, I am setting the standard high too.

Nights in Rodante - Anticipation Level 6/10
From the author of The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, and the next collaboration between Richard Gere and Diane Lane after Unfaithful, comes a definely tear jerking movie, prepare your tissues girls!

Indie-ana Column

From now on (I try to), to post 1 or 2 indie or little known movies i had watched in this blog. As i feel that are alot of movies are there that deserve more recognizion and hopes by words of mouth more people out there in the world will get to see those director and film makers hard work.

Here are some early preview movies that I will be trying to reviewing soon

Indie-Ana column
The Namesake (2006)
Brick (2005)
Eagle Vs Shark (2007)
The Counterfeiters (2007)
Duma (2005)
Slingblade (1996)
The Machinist (2004)
The Vistor (2008)

Movies Reviews

Wall- E (2008) - 3.75/5 Stars

Directed By: Andrew Stanton (A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo)

This movie remind me of the old cartoons like Popeye and Warner Bros (Bugs Bunny, Road Runner etc.), or even silent shows like Charlie Charplin and Mr Bean, where there is minimal dialogue inside the stories. Thus this movie can be watched understand by people of any races and ages. The strongest part of this movie definely has to be the main lead Wall-E. The character is adorable, well written, a strong personality and most of all ,lots of heart. The little details they use inside the movie building up the character of the movie like treating the cockroach like your best friend, falling in love with the music and the care and thoughts he arranges all his things and even rubbish. Thats why as the audience you can emphatized with him, seeing him maybe is like looking at your loyal dog, who never leaves your side.

Another interesting point in this movie is we get to see the world through machines point- of view, machines who feel more about Earth and life than the humans do. The humans can just leave the Earth as it is and leaves the world to robots to clear our mess. This in real nature also shows how insensitive we humans really are sometimes. The depiction of humans on the ship could have been incredibly offensive, cheap, and tasteless in concept but the execution here is absolutely perfect.

Thou story is brilliant, having 1 character and maybe 2 (if you count the cockroach), dominating half of the movie without dialogue, its almost put me to sleep at the start, luckily as a former Full Time National Serviceman who gone through one of the main process in army, "Waiting", i manage to hold on till the end.





In Bruges (2008)- 4/5 Stars

Directed By: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Finnes


This little publicized Irish movie had managed to fight its way through IMDB Top 250 movies(currently 237), and I am more happy to find people around the world for their support of this movie.

Escaping and holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a job gone terribly wrong, two hit men begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs. This movie although sad and poetic in its own way, is actually sort of a dark comedy. Making fun of midgets and using the word fuck in every sentence they can put it in. The word 'fuck' and its derivatives are said 126 times in this 107-minute film, an average of 1.18 'fucks' per minute. With so much fucks in the dialogue, you can imagine how fucking their life are in the movie.

The movie is a bit slow but essential for the first half as it is necessary to set the mood and the contrast between that and the second half. That's all I'll say so as not to spoil anything. It is everything you need to find in a good movie. There's comedy, beautiful cinematography, and awesome action scenes. I'd highly recommend seeing this movie. It's definitely worth the price of a movie ticket while most of the crap out there these days isn't worth the cost of the paper they print the tickets on.

(and you know I am toking to you Kelvin Tong, for dashing my hopes of Singapore Movie industry with Men In White, wasting my 7 hard earned bucks and 2 hours of my bloody time)


2 Days In Paris (2007) - 3.5/5 Stars

Directed By: Julie Delphy
Cast: Julie Delphy, Adam Goldberg

I would define this movie as a Arty-Rom-Comedy. Julie Delphy best known for her roles in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, tells the story of an interesting couple who looks to reinfuse their relationship by taking a holiday in Europe. I love the little details in their love and hate relationship of each other, especially the humor inside the movie (especially the dick with the balloon), you had to watch to know it.



Into The Wild (2007) - 3.5/5 Stars

Directed By: Sean Penn
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt

Based on a true story about a guy Chris McCandless graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete, abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

In this movie you will find yourself in a love and hate relationship with the lead in the movie. As one of the main reasons he leaves is to escape his overbearing parents, he leaves his family without leaving a word behind. Even though you could sympatizes with him and the circumstances he is being led to, and somehow admire those people lives that don't have to work your ass off to pay off your bills and think of your family, you find him entirely selfish leaving your family tinking every minute where are you, are you really even dead or alive.

Also the story is somehow pretendious, you can see the movie is trying to make a hero and paying tribute out of this guy and what he had accomplishes, riding through wilderness and sharing love and fighting for his life throughout the movie, but I of the main thing I hate about people are unfilial selfish bastards and this guy, to me is one of them.


Nanny Diaries - 2/5 Stars

Directed By: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Bulcini
Starring: Scarlet Johansson, Laura Linney, Chris Evans, Alicia Keys

This movie is a nanny version of the Devils Wear Prada. And if you are trying to copy someone idea and someone who have done it before, you better had to make it a better and stronger success. But sadly this movie is not.

The plot is predictable, you know how the story is going to end up from the start and sadly I have to admit I watched this movie just because of Scarlet Johansson.

Some really dumb questions i found while surfing Yahoo! answers

These are some stupid questions i found people asking on Yahoo!answers and some stupider people actually answer them.

Why sometimes people fart with sound and without sound?

A: Most fart gas comes from swallowed air and consists largely of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, the oxygen having been absorbed by the time it reaches the anal opening. These gases are odorless, although they often pick up other (and more odiferous) components on the way through the bowel. They emerge from the anus in fairly large bubbles at body temperature. A person can often achieve a good sound with these voluminous farts, but they are commonly (but not always!) mundane with respect to odor, and don't feel particularly warm.Another major source of fart gas is bacterial action. Bacterial fermentation and digestion processes produce heat as a byproduct as well as various pungent gases. The resulting bubbles of gas tend to be small, hot, and concentrated with stinky bacterial metabolic products. These emerge as the notorious, warm, SBD (Silent-But-Deadly), often in amounts too small to produce a good sound, but excelling in stench.

If a man impregnates two sisters, how much DNA will their kids have in common?

A: It depends on the similarities in DNA of the sisters. If they were identical twins then there will probably have at most 50% DNA in common. But between to sister, I would assume at most about 25%.

Are we born evil, or born pure and become evil?

A: According to the bible we are born with the original sin, in the beginning when adam and eve partook of the forbidden fruit, that God told them not to eat of, they did anyways, and that was the original sin, and God said that every one that comes into the world would be born in the originalsin. There fore, we are born evil. (wtf is this guy trying to say?)

Where can I get a polo shirt that has a Woolly-Mammoth on it rather than a horse or crocodile?

A: Zazzle.com

What do you think dying feels like?

A: Hmmm, interesting question...but the first thing that came to me was, it probably hurts less than living...

I was bitten by a turtle when I was a young lad, should I still drink orange juice?

A: Everyone knows that if you drink orange juice after being bitten by a turtle you will die of asphyxiation in the next sixty-five years! If the turtle is still alive today, he will find and strangle you. If he's dead, he'll come back as a ghost and take over your body.. making you strangle yourself on a crowded public bus with your own hands...!

Do you like birthday gifts?

A: yes..got one for me?

How come there are no gay animals?

A: There are gay animals. You just need to get out more and meet some.

Why Does a red Rose looks Red?

A: WTF! Because it is fucking red!

Some new movies and cool posters to look out for

Here are some up and coming movies that I feel will be good and recommend you guys to look out for it. (click on image to enlarge)

RockNRolla - Directed by GUy Ritchie directed of cult favourites Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two smoking barrels, who haven made a single good movie for the last 8 years since marrying Madonna. This might turn out to be his golden ticket to save his career. Starring Gerald Butler of 300, Thandie Newton of Crash, Jeremy Piven and Ton Wilkinson.


Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Woody Allen new movie starring the always great Javier Bardem, my top 2 favourite girl Scarlet Joahansson and the hottest Latino Penelope Cruz. Already receiving rave reviews will this be the next comeback for Woody after a few flops of last 2 years, we will watch out.


The Spirit - Another new poster of the new movie director by Sin City creator, Frank Miller.


Terminator - Salvation - One of my all time favourite Sci-fi movie, this time starring Christian Bale, one of the actor I feel is one of the best of his generation a;ways choosing great and interesting roles. One downside of this movie is it is directed by McG, the director of the Charlie Angels sequels. Will this turn out to be good?


W - A very funny poster of the biopic of US President George W. Bush, director by Oliver Stone director of previous US Presidents biopics like JFK and Nixon.


The Brothers Bloom - This is one movie that I think will be really good, an amazing cast starring Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, the underrated Mark Rufflalo and Babel turnout star Rinko Kinkuchi. Directed by the director of indie flick Brick, Rian Johnson, Adrien and Mark played the Brothers Bloom, the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.


Burn After Reading - A rare comedy by the Coen Brothers, director of Fargo and fresh Oscar winner No Country For Old Men, starring another brilliant cast consisting of Georges Clooney, Frances MCdormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton.


Humboldt County - An indie comedy flick about a disillusioned medical student being stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself.

Recents movies i watch (recent movies/dvds) ratings

Dark Knight - 4.25/5 Stars
Performance of a lifetime by Heath Ledger who overshadow EVERYONE inside this flick which means alot consider the amazing cast (Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman. Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhall, Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckart). Some of the most amazing car chases scenes especially the one with the long oil tank truck?? Brillant.

Hellboy 2 - The Golden Army 3.5/5 stars
I somehow like the simpler, lower budget first Hellboy. You could see where all the money is spend in this CGI heavy flick. But sometime too much money might not do too good too a genius like Guillermo Del Toro whose must better flick are all low budget movies like Pans Labyrinth. But his vision and creativity is still astonishing as you can see in all the creatures in the movie.

Hancock - 3.25/5 stars
Alot of my friends dislike this but i thought it was pretty okay. Firstly I think of the idea and concept was original, who had ever thought of the aftermath of what a superhero have cause after saving the citizens from the villians like those crash railways, collasped buildings and no. of casualties died because of this. And the twist is pretty cool too. You got me there.

Wanted - 3/5 stars
Overstylish, lack of story substance, but Angelina is kickass in here.

Red Cliff - 3.5/5 stars
Could be a much better if the CG is more realistic, and some of the actors seems to be miscast because of the accent (might be because of the dubbing), looks and performance like Tony Leung(especially), Chang Chen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Lin Chiling and that Japanese guy who keep trying to scare audience with his angry face. They just don't talk and behave like people during the era. But the battle scenes are realistic and I am looking forward to the 2nd part of this biggest budget chinese movie ever.

The Bank Job 3.5/5 stars
A pretty good old school gang robbery British flick starring Jason Statham which kinds of remind me of a less cooler and stylish Lock Stock and Two smoking Barrels.

Charlie Wilson War - 3.25/5 stars
Emily Blunt was really hot in her 2 scenes less then 3 mins performance, and this story seems really short and somehow dosen't seem completed to me.

Grace is Gone - 3.5/5 stars
I think this is really a good example of a low budget movie that won the audience through brilliant acting by the cast. I think 80 percent of the budget is one the cast, 1 percent on rental of the car which 40 percent of the movie happens inside ,2 percent on promoting it (as no much promoting was done, its all through word of mouth) and the rest for the crew. A very different movie from the recent craze of movies cause by the American involving in the Iraq war.

I'm Not There - 3.5/5 stars

Penelope - 3/5 stars

Walk Hard 0 The Dewey Cox Story - 3.75/5 stars

National Treasure 2 - 2.75/5 stars

Alvin and the Chipmunks - 2.5/5 stars

Ord lo

Woohoo, ord lo. quite old news. But post ord life is alright so far. Got to start work in Mediacorp working in the Chinese drama department as PA next mon. The pay is meagre and i bet work is gonna be tough but I hope I can endure long enough to strike in my first step to my career path i decide to choose since i finished sec sch.

Btw I am pretty fed up with all the foods and stuff rises. Yesterday night i was watching the Euro 2008 soccer and suddenly something in my mind tell me" hey handsome, you haven eat a prata for a long time, its time to have some. Preferably one goseng and 1 egg with onion." And when I decide to move my lazy ass to go down to buy a prata and during the payment time i give 2 dollar and just when I am about to say keep the change, the staff tell me. Sorry dei, total 2.60.

$2.60 for 2 freaking prata. nabei i bring $2.50 down nia still must malu go back to my hse take another 10 cents down. On the way back to my hse, i still look on the ground wishing i am lucky enough to spot a 10 cent coin. By the way the sum of the prata is 1 goseng $1 plus 1 egg with onion $1.60.

And today i go buy lunch, trying to see what food to eat nabei all the food in my S-11 coffeeshop is freaking pricey. 1 plate chicken rice $3.30 (what kind of weird price is tt) mee pok $3.50 and ban mian $3, you char kway wa biang 80 cent. ok la for nw the price still can take it but u flashback to the price of just 4 yrs ago ~~~~~~~~~~~~ shiu~~~~~~~~~ time travel shiu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BACK TO 4 YRS AGO
"speaking to my bro" wa prata gosong 1 for 50 cents nia, lets buy 20 and play prata bomb.

wa dunno wan to eat chicken rice or mee pok today lei, aiya 2 dollars nia just buy both n eat la, think to eat wad waste time and money cannot buy time.

ok i tink this story going no where, but recents reports states that all food prices and petrol prices are still continuing to rise. And recent case in US, all the tomatoes and veggie farm got corroded by dunno wad so the Macdonalds and Burger King will end up with no tomatoes in their burger for awhile.

Heng sia i dunlike to eat tomatoes.

New posters (click to enlarge)

Posters of some indies coming soon: Choke, Gonzo, Beautiful Losers, The Panda Chase, The Princess of Nebraska & In My Sleep



A new set of pretty cute posters of Wall-E (The 1st two are Russian released)


Red Cliff



European poster of The Happening


European Poster of The Wanted


Poster of Spike Lee(Inside Men, 25th Hr, Malcolm X) new war movie, Miracle at St. Anna.

Movie Chirashis for sale

Hi I had some movie chirashis for sales for avid movie lovers.

About Japanese Chirashi
In Japan, these mini posters are known as Chirashi. They are used for promotions of films that are produced and distributed by film companies screening their movies in Japan. For most of the posters, the design used for a certain movie is only exclusive to Japan, thus makes the design unique and higher in demand and value.

Most of the titles I'm selling are new movies titles. Those I currently have are Indiana Jones 4, Speed Racer, Cloverfield, Charlie Wilson War, Vantage Point, Next, 10,000 BC, Hancock, Prince Caspian, CJ 7, Red Cliff, Rambo 4, Wanted, 21, Kung Fu Panda, Golden Compass, Curse of the Golden Flower,, Lion For Lambs, Elizabeth 2, Mr Magnorium Wonder Emporium, August Rush, Blindness and Jumper.

All chirashi/ mini posters are B5 size, approximately 19cm X 26cm/ 7 x 10 inches.
Mint, unused condition. I am selling each piece at SG$3.00, but if you buy more I will give you a discount rate. I will always have new stock of new movies coming in, so if interested please contact me through email at oLc_5@msn.com.

Below are some designs of the chirashi I had right now.