Category: Entertainment

The Ramen Girl (2008) – on rental. Two more DVDs arrived by way of home rental near the weekend. One was the critically acclaimed psychological-sci-fi drama Moon from last year starring Sam Rockwell, and other the third Brittany Murphy drama

Uptown Girls (2003) – on rental. My interest in Brittany Murphy’s comedies and dramas got revived after watching Just Married the other day. The late actress was pretty productive with a long list of films, several of which I’ve queued

Entrapment (1999) – on rental. There aren’t a lot of Hollywood films that have large scenes shot in South-East Asia, with just a few I can think off my head: Anna and the King starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yuen-Fatt

Just Married (2003) – on rental. There’s a whole ton of romantic-comedies about two unlikely persons meeting and falling in love, with many having the two persons at the marriage altar at the film’s end. There is precious few about

The Ugly Truth (2009) – on rental. If there’s any one theme in romantic comedies that’s getting ruthlessly farmed for material, it’s the theme of how men and women view relationships differently. The Ugly Truth – starring blonde bombshell Katherine

Monsters vs Aliens (2009) – on rental. The productions coming out from DreamWorks Animation has been uneven for several years now and lacking the consistent quality of its rival, Pixar Animation Studios. Its most recent production Monsters vs Aliens isn’t

Continued from the last post. However, the problems I experienced with the films remained solidly at the forefront in my revisit. Right at the top was the atrocious acting from every one in the main cast, with just two exceptions:

Red Cliff (2008) – on HD. I didn’t enjoy John Woo’s mega-budget production of the famous Chinese novel, and blogged about it then in a post here last year in April. But when the Blu-ray edition of the two films

Public Enemies (2009) – on rental. Now this was another big budget super-hyped film on last year’s movie screenings, but also a production I skipped at the cinema. I liked the subject material, but was less sure about the associated

Reposted for the other blog I write for.:) 7 months ago I posted a mini-review of The Sims 3, Electronic Arts’ newest iteration of the life-simulator game from the series that’s sold millions of copies. There’s no sense in not