latest movies updates

Cloverfield to get a sequel?!?

What director Matt Reeves say during an interview - " There's a moment on the Brooklyn Bridge, a guy was filming something on the side of the bridge, and Hud sees him filming and he turns over and he sees the ship that's been capsized and sees the headless Statue of Liberty, and then he turns back and this guy's briefly filming him. In my mind that was two movies intersecting for a brief moment, and I thought there was something interesting in the idea that this incident happened and there are so many different points of view, and there are several different movies at least happening that evening and we just saw one piece of another. That idea sort of tickled me. We'll have to see if anyone would want a sequel. If the movie does well and we find a compelling reason to do so then it would be fun to do a sequel".

Omg! pls do not do any sequel to this movie, it sld be left it alone as it is!!!


Peter Jackson signed up to produce The Hobbit

Finally the movie is being finalized! All fans of LOTR rejoy!. But the thing is he will not direct this time round, and the Hobbit is slated to produce into 2 movies. And the releasted date is set at 2010 - 2011.


Christian Bale and Johnny Depp to be starring in Michael Mann new film, Public Enemy

Omg, 2 of my favourite actors to appeared face to face on screen!!! The film's the story of legendary bank robbery John Dillinger (Depp) and the huge FBI hunt for him, led by Agent Melvin Purvis, who Bale is set to play. So it's definely very Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral, Miami Heat), even though in this case the 1930s setting takes this a little way away from his usual stomping ground.


Iron Man to appear in The Hulk?

This must go down as one of the strangest cameo ever in movie history. Source from Empire website, "This is going to prove controversial for the film and some will call it a shameless attempt by Marvel to cross promote their movies. But we think it's pretty neat. These characters are all supposed to exist in the same world, so it makes sense that they'd be aware of each other. Some are saying this is an indication that Marvel is preparing to move ahead with a movie version of The Avengers (Marvel's equivalent of The Justice League), but, given the cost and tricky logistics in trying to put something like that together, we wouldn't expect an announcement on this anytime soon."


Movies recommended for the next 2 weeks.

This week. Atonement (Winner of Golden GLobe Best Picture for Drama), Assasination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (The leading contender for this year Oscar Best Foreign Film, already won Golden Globe)

Next Week - Sweeney Todd, Kite Runner, Away From Her

New songs on my on the go

New songs to recommends. what a great site this is isn't it with recommedations of movies and music and art. pls come more often. free entry.

Radiohead- Jigsaw Falling Into Places
ever since radiohead goes Super alternative, i find some of their music hard to accept but this 1 is obviously the standout of their new album, make me high high high. ran wo ai hou bu gan ai.

Mott The Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Soundtrack of Juno, after hearing the whole album of Juno, i bet i will love the movie, this s the type of movie soundtrack I like, very wes anderson and indie.

杨宗纬 - 洋葱
This song written by Ah Xin of mayday, make me super emo. my heart cries. make me feel like an onion. especially the chorus plus his trademark make ppl want to cry voice, oh man my bro beside me is crying too.

Cloverfield reviews from other leading critics

Empire - 5 Stars
A dazzling experiment that paid off immensely, this is cinematic pleasure at its purest. One caveat: If they ever make a sequel, we’re taking two stars back.

Premiere - 3 stars

Roger Ebert - 3/4 stars
An effective film, deploying its special effects well and never breaking the illusion that it is all happening as we see it.

A.V Club.com - A-

Entertainment Weekly - B+
Cloverfield kills its darlings with élan, thanks to the brilliant, post–Blair Witch Project decision to tell the story through amateur footage shot by one of the refugees — a big-picture disaster seen through the viewfinder of little, self-absorbed people. Here, only airplanes have a chance against the beast, and beauty is useless. Only in New York, kids

Imdb - 8.1/10 stars (currently)

Rotten Tomatoes - 76/100



Thus overall this proves i am a Brit in my heart. Hella to u EMPIRE.!

Jay chou concert sucks

yesterday quite a busy day. have a sushi buffet with ade and co. for a sort of farewell dinner at goodwood park hotel. dim sum not bad but will have end more pts with more variety. den shop around town for awhile and meet sandy, tak yee, jiayi , kevin for jay chou concert. o man the concert realli sucks. i tink due to his previous day concert, his voice sounds weaker den a mouse. is not mighty mouse, or mickey or the ratatouillie mouse, its a tom n jerry mouse! the sound system sucks, the only way i feel better after tt is i nv spend 1500 bucks buying his tickets on ebay like those idiots.

yeah!

New movie posters of 2008

Dark Night Teaser

The Happening

M Night Shyamalan new movie. WIll it be 3 flops in a row?

Mamma Mia!
Here we go again.

The Forbidden Kingdom

Jet Li and Jackie Chan chinese 2 biggest superstars working together for the first time in a Hollywood version of Journey to the West

Sex and the City (movie)

To all the fans out there, the movie had finally arrived!

the Top 10 posters for 2007 movies

a poster is very crucial to attracting movie goers to watch the movie. a good poster is 23% to the movie success. as a avid movie poster collector myself, i am here to give my thoughts of my top 10 favourite posters of the past year. take a look. choose ur fav 1. (click to enlarge)

#1 Grindhouse
Tarantino posters are always a iconic, classic and snatch by poster collectors (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill). The selling point of 2 movies for the price of 1 of the old B grade raw feature is fantastic. Love at first sight.









#2 Black Snake Moan

This poster is really cool and kickass, belongs to the same style as grindhouse. I love the whole rugged and gritty look, especially of Christian Ricci and Samuel Lee.








#3 Sweeney Todd
This does look like your normal Tim Burton fantasy style movie poster, but it kind of really reminds me of Edward Scissorshand and it really makes you want to watch the movie, dosen't it?

#4 300
The poster is as iconic as the poster, one word to describe, kickass.











#5 Paris Je Taime
I love the overall feel and concept of the poster, using iconic Paris tower to make it into a heart. Nice and sweet.










#6 Savages
This is a risk taking poster, simple, no big star photos, thats why i love it. Old school.










#7 The Kite Runner
The first time I saw this poster, I thought, damn, this is how my Final Year Project short film The Letters, should look like.










#8 Margot At The Wedding
Simple white and playing with typography. Another nice and simple concept.










#9 The Darjeeling Limited
If you think the poster looks good, the movie looks even better.











#10 3:10 to Yuma
Gritty cowboy Texas look, woohoo.

The first 5 stars movie for 2008!

Cloverfield - 5/5 stars !!!

Dir: Matt Reeves (prev work - Felicity (drama)

This monster movie totally puts I am Legend to shame, luckily they came up b4 this marvellous piece of genius work by the talent wonderkid J J Abrams (creator of Lost, Alias and dir of M I 3).

After minimal opening credits, we are informed by text on the screen that what we are watching is footage from a videocam "retrieved at an incident site formerly known as Central Park." Watching it, we discover that a going-away party for a man, Rob (he's transferring to Japan) is interrupted by an earth-rumbling, fiery disturbance down at the waterfront – and shortly after that, all hell breaks loose. The monster – as well as skittery, spider/crab like parasites that drop from its body – attack, stomp and/or chew on anything that moves – while our heroes set off to rescue a friend trapped in her high-rise apartment.

Actually you shouldn't even be reading this, the more you know about this movie, the less better it will be. This is a one of the most original concept and idea ever for a monster , end of the world movie. Everything begin slow and thus creating the suspense. The audience is getting impatient! we jus want to see the monster. But the director try to hook ur attention by not revealing anythin to you. He slowly revealed to you pieces and pieces and god damn i had not been hooked throughout an entire movie for dunno since when!

The tension is great cause we are experiencing what the protaganists are experiencing. Many people might be affected by the shaky cameras but I feel the overall idea overshadow other mistakes and goofs of the movie. Just go to see this movie b4 the whole town talk about it soon!

But for one thing I had to say, the camera is really amazing, it never seems to run out of battery, and it had the light mode for all sort of situation, night vision, adolsecent etc. And Hud the camera operator who at the start of the movie say he hardly knows how to operater the camera, seems to do a pretty good job making a movie out of his video debut.

American gangster

American Gangster - 4/5 stars


Dir: Ridley Scott (prev work Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Blade Runner)




The battle of the best actors winners, and will Ridley Scott did better this time after his previous last 2 flops (Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year)?

Based on a true story, following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government.

This movie is a sort of combination of Catch Me If You Can and Lord of War, the cop catching the thief story. But i like the way the characters contradicts each other. Denzel Washington, as a drug lord, killing people without even battering an eyelid is a filial son, caring husband even risking his life to block a gun shot for his wife, but Russel Crowe as Richie the supposely minority of good cop who does not take bribes, is a fail husband, father who commin adultery with every decent looking woman he seen. Surprisngly this 2 actors only appear together in the last 15 mins of this 2 and a half hour movie.

The movie at 137 mins running time is a bit draggy in some parts. The background of Frank Lucas could be cut much shorter, if the whole movie is around half an hour shorter, it will be a much better film for the audience.

To sum it up I believe this is an excellent telling of a true crime story. It's intriguing, entertaining, and certainly serves as a cautionary reminder. DO not sell or take drugs.

o man i can be the ambassador of the say no to drugs campaign.

rounding up my new year

anyone who had read ade blog may know my start to the new yr wasn't tt good. after a realli bad dinner and waiting a cab for a hour plus isn't my ideal way of starting the year. my sinus problem getting worse, i need a plumber to stop my leaking nose. haven go out much this yr everybody is realli hard to date. nt having enough sleep most of the time. ade is leaving this sun for 6 weeks 1 lesser fren to hang wit but wish her gd luck n njoy her training safe n sound.cousin getting married had to help up wit his prep. the year awaited golden globe been cancell because of the damn writers strike. things on a gd note. this sat jay concert. sun sending ade off. oscar movies month. hope i pass my driving the 2nd time. n looking forward to cny! woohoo.

on the go list

i am so free that i had nothing to do. wan to share with you guys my taste of music, so just sharing the 15 /25 songs on my ipod on the go list which I will change every 4 days b4 going to camp so for the preparation for the 1 hour plus bus ride from yishun to changi. poor me being doing this for 1 and a half year. 4 more months to go woohoo!.

1. The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa
2. The Killers - The Ballad of Michael Valentine (the song that pump my adrenline through my trip)
3. Rilo Kiley - Breaking Up (This indie pop singer is one of the most unique music ever, quirky and fun)
4. Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
5. Bono - I am the Walrus (soundtrack of Across the Universe)
6. One Republic - Stop and Stare
7. Cold play - In My Place
8. Radiohead - All I Need (song from their latest album)
9. The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow (soundtrack of The Darjeeling Ltd)
10. Peter Sartsdt - Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) (Soundtrack of the Darjeeling Ltd)
11. 林宥嘉 - 背影
12. 曹格 - 单数
13. 曹格 - 爱到最后一秒也不委屈
14. Soler - 媽媽再見
15. 方大同 - Love Song

Cho CHo CHOOOO!

The Darjeeling Limited - 4.25/5 stars

Dir: Wes Anderson (prev work Royal Tenaunbaums, Rushmore)

Wes Anderson coming back to form after his slight slump in his prev film Life Aquatic with a funnier, quirkier and indianer story.

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage (the train is call Darkeeling Ltd thus the title) across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray), and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer, and a laminating machine. At this moment, a new, unplanned journey suddenly begins.

Wes is one of my favourite actor as i absolutely love his style of work which is easily the most distintive warm colourful setting, simple camera tracking movement, quick panning, slow motion, almost the same cast (Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston), and 60s soundtrack. But critics normally panned him for never breaking out of the box and playing with the same storyline of a trouble family relationship.

The magical and beauty of this film is the Indian setting background the whole art direction of this movie. The train, which obviously is a set provide the charm of the heart of the movie. The music and the whole backdrop make you feel really fun and relax watching this movie throughout. The other successful part is the casting of the 3 brothers, (Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartman), although playing really 3 different characters, their chemistry can be seen on-screen sabotaging, distrusting and trying to escape from one another. You really feel for the sentiment affection of this worse then stranger brothers. Especially memorable is the line by Jack, "I wonder if the three of us would've been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people ".

Also recommended viewing before watching this amazing film is Hotel Chevalier, a 13 minute short film directed by Anderson and starring Jason Schwartzman, available for free download online. In the film, Schwartzman plays the same character that he plays in The Darjeeling Limited. Also starring is Natalie Portman as Jack's ex-girlfriend, who makes a brief cameo in the feature film as well. The short film helps establish Schwartzman's character, and provides clues on certain details of The Darjeeling Limited.

Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton - 3/5 stars

Dir: Tony Gilroy (debut)

Writer of Bourne Trilogy debut directorial, so how does he score?

Starring George Clooney as Michael Clayton, an in-house "fixer" at the largest law firms in New York. Though burned out and uncontent with his job , his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt left Clayton tied to the firm. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages one of his case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and life.

Written and direted by Bourne writer, one of the greatest action trilogy of all time, starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, all really credible actors giving great performances. The problem with this movie is with the people who is watching it, do you understanding all the law and business crap they were talking in the first two third of the movie. For me, i didn't, thus i was sort of playing catching with the movie, trying to find out most of the time the jargons and business terms in majority of the dialogue.

The directr try to make this the sort of "intelligent" film, that makes you think what is going to happen and what the characters going to do. In the end it left the viewers too much to do, thinking, guessing, coping with the dialogue, slow pace, and the hardest part, keeping awake.

No doubt a good film, but certainly not for everyone, definely not for me.

Big fish, small fish



Whale Rider (2002) - 4/5 stars


Dir: Niki Caro (prev work: North County)

A dvd I just watched. This is a little indie New Zealander flick and the performance of then 12 years old Keisha Castle Hughes really touched me. (She is also the youngest ever woman to be nominated for Best Actress for a Oscar.)

The story tells in the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years ago to a ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in the tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

The people in the movie reminds you of characters and stories in Pocahantas, just that everything is slightly modern, clothes, hairstyle and talking in the modern world. But the traditions remains the same as the past, girls are discriminated, guys taking over most of the responsibilities around. This is actually a very simple story but very well told by the main character in the movie portray by Keisha Castle, who defy all the odds to earn the recognition from his beloved grandpa. Everytime she appeared on the screen it hold your attention and left you in tears.

I am very glad this movie is able to be made cause if i am a movie, I won't choose to invest money for this kind of movie. I will have problems trying to market this film as this is not the regular movie normal movie goers would want to see (no known superstars, no million dollar effects, no cutesy winny voices singing chipmunks). But with the incredible acting, breakthrough talents, deeply movie, wonderful scenery and cinematography, i hope everybody will get to see this movie suitable for all ages.