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!