Category: Entertainment

There hasn’t been a lot of Film & Entertainment posts of late here on our blog. Not because I haven’t been watching any, but only because I haven’t been writing about them! Most of them were pretty recent films from

The A-Team (2010). Another ’80s TV series that was making its rounds was The A-Team, an action-oriented series based around four ex-military soldiers wrongly accused of a crime, and as escapees from justice taking on mercenary jobs that the normal

Stardust (2007) – on Blu-ray. There were two overtly ‘lomantik’ films we caught on the big screen in our pre-Hannah 2007 days. One was Enchanted, and the other Stardust. I remembered having no preconceptions of what the latter was about

The costumes and sets are another two high points of the series. For lack of a better descriptor, they look very real. While the city of Rome at this point of history was the beacon of modernity in their part

Rome (2005). The first time I caught this HBO/BBC series was in Perth in 2005 and on broadcast television, and back then while I had a rough idea to what the story was about and where it was going –

The actor performances pique my interest, because as visually spectacular as Gladiator was and that Russell Crowe did a great number as the brooding Maximus, I never quite got got past the disbelief that these were Hollywood bigwigs playacting in

Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010) – on HD. Contrary to what some of us might think, the stuff about the fictonal character Maximus Meridius going up against the might of Rome in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator wasn’t historically without precedent. More

On the other hand; there were elements in The Pacific that didn’t work for me. One of the strongest aspects of BoB was that it centered its attention squarely on a small group of men who fought in a one-year

The Pacific (2010) – on HD. Of the many war and political history books that the late Professor Stephen Ambrose wrote, two of them particularly standout for me. One is Citizen Soldiers – which was in turn one of the

The Karate Kid (2010) – on rental. I wasn’t much of a film buff 25 years ago in the 80’s, what with the fact that TV access at our old family home in Sembawang was strictly controlled by parents, and

Predators (2010) – on rental. As far as films in the horror sci-fiction genre go, there are really just two iconic franchises – Alien and Predator – out there which while on the surface look very different, share otherwise a