X Files 2 Teaser poster

This is the new teaser poster for the sequel of the hit TV series X- Files. Creative way of show the alphablet X and 2, but somehow remind me of the teaser of 007 - Quantum of Solace poster too. There since to be something hip about shadow nowadays since Horton is screened.

The Bucket List - 3/5 stars... full review coming soon

Also coming soon Spiderwick Chronicles and Grace is Gone

Tropic Thunder

Another film coming out this year is this big star cast comedy, Tropic Thunder, which tells the story of a group of actors who go on location in the jungle, and find themselves relying on their brief actor's boot-camp training when they find themselves in a real combat situation. This is also Ben Stiller 4th directorial effort after The Cable Guy and Zoolander.

The star studded list includes: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey JR (this yr Iron Man) portraying an African, Bill Hader and cameos by Tom Cruise, Tobey Maguire, Matthew McConaugary.

Trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809912814/video/7004235

Son of Rambow

Directed by: Garth Jennings (Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy)

Screening date (Spore) : Oct 7, 2008

Touted as the next big indie of this year, after Little Miss Sunshine of 2006, Juno of 2007, this is gonna be big in 2008.

Already a hit at the Sundance Festival, Son of Rambow is a comedy about friendship, faith and the tough business of growing up. We see the story through the eyes of Will who has never been allowed to mix with the other 'worldlies,' listen to music or watch TV, until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirated copy of Rambo: First Blood and from that moment Will's mind is blown wide open and he's easily convinced to be the stuntman in Lee Carters' diabolical home movie. Will and Carter's complete disregard for consequences and innocent ambition means that the process of making their film is a glorious rollercoaster that eventually leads to true friendship. They start to make a name for themselves at school as movie makers but when popularity descends on them in the form of the Pied Piper-esque French exchange student, Didier Revol, their unique friendship and their precious film are pushed, quite literally, to breaking point.

Trailer : http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/sonoframbow/trailer/

be kind rewind, semi pro, meet the spartans, dan in real life

Be Kind ReWind - 3.5/5 stars
This is really one of the most original movies about movie spoofs by the director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry, the first half of the movie was really good and funny but after the Ghostbusters and Rush Hour 2 part, everything is going downhill and over melodramatic. Jack Black is the scene stealer again, making Mos Def just behind him as his shadow.

Semi Pro - 2.5/5 stars
This is really crappy, but thanks to Meet the Spartans this will not be the worst movie i had watch this year. Will Ferrell portray his usual self in his usual roles, screaming and souting all the time, portraying himself as a sex sympol appearing half naked most of the time. But the are still some funny moments though, kept till the minimum.

Meet The Spartans - -5/5 stars (yeap its a minus 5)
This is the lowest review rating ever on ablogisnotablock, so congrats to Meet the Spartans, who may had just make the worst movie of this century. Nonsense, trashy, make me feel like kicking the director down the pit too. The only thing i am glad is i never spend any money on this but please pay me back the time i spent.

Dan In Real Life - 3.25/5 stars
Pretty watchable dramedy by Steve Carrell. Not the best and nothing memorable about it, but some great acting and moments, suitable for a family watching gathering. Emily Blunt makes a great appearance in her cameo too!

New Series Posters for Speed Racer out!

This is the first set of series posters for the Wachowski Brothers (Matrix Trilogy) summer blockbuster, Speed Racer, based on the cartoon series in the 70s.

Sandeestars

Here are some ratings from my guest reviewer, my dear friend Sandy aka Ah Sa. U can call her Tnay too (pronounce as Der Nay), who shockingly manage to watch all sorts of movies that is showing in Spore currently, including craps 1. (click to enlarge the picture to see every pores and wrinkle of her, ! warning its huge!)

The Water House : Legend of the Deep - 3/5 sandeestars
er hem (all comments directly from her, non edited can c she veri excited posting her first review and being the first guest reviewer on ablogisnotablock), don't watch water horse unless you're below ten

Rule #1 2.5/5 sandeestars
Not very scary and expected ending.

Meet The Spartans -1/5 sandeestars (u r not wrong its a minus)
(she put a emoticon which i will describe as a boy kicking out the hell out of a botak fellow boy) which I thinkshe mean sucks.

Horton - 3.8/5 sandeestars
Love the story and the elephant.

10,000 BC - 3.8/5 sandee stars
nice mammoth effects but story is linear.

L Change the World - 3/5 sandeestars
I really love L.

Juno - 3.5/5
The girl can really act.

Step up 2 (comment from sandy sister Ms Jewel)
Step up 2 is better den Step Up 1.

On behalf on Tnay, thanks for the support. More guests.

coming soon..

Quick reviews

Some short reviews of recent movies i watch on DVDs recently. (all movies of 2007)

Reign Over Me - 3.5/5 stars
Alot of people thought Adam Sandler is just a comedian, never realising that he can actually act, but his dramatic roles are seldom seem by people. Movies like Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish, and Click makes him one of my favourite actors. This movie is his another attempt at drama. It is one of the few films in the past few years that actually make me tear, really moving movie about Post 911 about how a widow guy handled the loss of his wife and children who was victims of the crash.

Planet Terror - 4.25/5 stars
Kickass time again. One half of the supposed 2 movies for the price of 1, Grindhouse. This is the better half to the other part directed by Tarantino, Death Proof. The gore and comedy really tickles me throughtout this film. Great attempt of a movie paying homage to the 70s Grindhouse drive in movies.

Evan Almighty - 2.75/5 stars
Although this comedy never makes me even smile at all the whole movie, it is truly amazing seeing the effects and one of those movies that must have cost alot of time and money to make. But not one I would recommend.

Surf Up - 3/5 stars
Pretty different concept of a animation using the idea of penguin reality show to tell the whole story. Not a bad movie to watch with the kids, and the penguins are sort of cool.

Red Cliff Teaser

Happen to come across this short teaser on a Jap website. 1 of the biggest budget chinese blockbuster ever shooting 2 parts at 1 go, Red Cliff directed by John Woo. Cast included Tony Leung Chao Wei, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhao Wei, Chang Chen, Zhang Fenyi, Hu Jun and supermodel Lin Chiling. Enjoy.

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1448183044&channel=1243625435

Horton hears a Who!

Horton - 3.25/5 stars

Director - Jimmy Harvard & Steve Martino (debut)

One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry coming from a speck of dust. Though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his jungle neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck.

The first half hour of the movie is like watching an extended version of the movie trailer. Surprisingly this movie turns out to be pretty watchable. Although compare to Pixar movies, Dreamworks animations still lacks of a class, their movies are often cheesy, corny, doing parodies of other movies and unoriginal (Shrek, Shark Tale, Madagascar), but the script turns out to be a fresh of breath air.

Though this movies dosen't bring out any "laughing-out loud" moment, the jokes are as corny and cheesy as ever, but is definely funny enough for children below 12. For age 13-20, you will enjoy 10 % lesser, for 21-30 20% lesser and so on.

But this movie is surely entertaining enough for the average audience, so quick go spend your 8 bucks now.

Movies to watch out for March and April in Spore

I won't introduce those blockbusters, commercial or comedies that most of you will be likely to know and see. I will introduce some indie and smaller projects that I heard will be good. Stay tune.

March

The Orphanage
A spanish horror film produced by Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pans Labyrinth). About A woman who brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend. This movie had already won several awards in its country including Best Picture.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/picturehouse/theorphanage/trailer2/

The Bucket List
A small little film starring two of the best actors ever, Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. The story is about 2 terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they kick the bucket (die).

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thebucketlist/trailer1/

April

Definely Maybe
This is one interesting movie I can't wait to see, starring Ryan Reynolds as WIll Hayes, a 30-something dad in the midst of a divorce when his 10-year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin), starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will then tell 3 different stories of his past 3 relationship and let Maya guess which is her mum. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, Emily (Elizabeth Banks) ,longtime best friend and confidante, the apolitical April (Isla Fisher) or the free-spirited but ambitious journalist Summer (Rachel Weisz)? And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back...and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/definitelymaybe/

Funny Games
This is a cruel sadistic movie about a middle-class housewife Anna telling the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake. I had goosebumps even after watching the trailer imagining how disturbing this movie could be.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/funnygames/trailer1/

Iron Man Int'l Posters

Here are the final posters for Iron Man the movie due to release end of April.

Characters designs of Watchmen revealed!

This is one of the most anticapted movie of 2009! Directed by Zack Snyder (300, Dawn of the Dead) , Watchmen one of cult- comic fans favourite, focuses on the every day life of out of work superheroes. Costumed superheroism has been outlawed, and most groups have been abandoned. But as a new threat presents itself, the paranoid masked detective/vigilante Rorschach uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all masked heroes.

Here are some stills of the characters from the production shoot. Enjoy. (click to enlarge)

Latest updates

Some latest updates of myself.

ORD in 2 and a half month times.!!! holy shit i can smell ORD! and what does ord smells off. no more mud and sweat, no more waking up at different time of the day, no more shitty army (SFI) food, it smells better then the most branded perfume you all spray under your armpit.

but one bloody hell thing that spoilt my ORD mood, the escape of Mr Selamat without the Hari Raya. me and my army friends had ben cursing the detention centre ppl for letting a crippled (bai Ka) escape of a detention centre. I cant even imagine an able bodied person walking out. Now instead of having 2 days work 2 days off i am doing 3 days work 1 day off.

But during my CNY spring cleaning, i came upon an autograph book, you know those sort of very cutesy girly book during ur last few days of ur Primary 6 after PSLE, you pass to every classmate to write something hw they feel about you and sign off. Mine happen to be this pink cover with 2 little pigs that i wrap up with book cover nicely. OMG i had a great time laughing at all the words and poems ppl write. Here are some classic.

Birds fly High,
Hard to Catch,
Friends like you,
Hard to find.

the funny thing about this is those writing this poem ppl nv read what other people write, thus i got 7 classmates who find me hard to find.

one more

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Tomatoes are red &
our Sch U are Blue.

oh man now i know why i am so humorous, i grew up with these ppl.

and here are some words what ppl feel abt me.

Liangcai,

So hard to be leaving you soon, we had a great time during all these years and you are a true friendly and nice guy. Will miss those days playing chapteh and soccer with ping pong ball with u. Hope we will still keep in contact after our separte ways.

And I nv heard of this guy again after i graduate.