Showing at a local home cinema – Part 12
One of the nicest things about being on a DVD home rental subscription is that I get to loan as many film titles as I can possibly manage. So, as in my comment to our small group Ann to other
Living in Interesting Days
Who would have thought: viruses mutated with pigs thrown somewhere into the mixture. These couple of days have been, well, interesting. 6 years ago in 2003 there was the SARS scare. I missed on all that though: I’d just arrived
Showing at a local home cinema – Part 11
Sex Drive (2008). Low-brow adult comedies are a dime a dozen these days. I think they’ve been around for a while, but it was American Pie in 1999 a decade ago that really got movie-goers’ attention. Just to get it
Showing at a local home cinema – Part 10
Two very different dramas this time, and starting off first with… Slumdog Millionaire (2008). It’s not everyday when a Bollywood-esque movie is award Best Motion Picture at this year’s Academy Awards. And not just that even: it picked up 8
Troy – Part 4
What about the more controversial and weaker aspects of the film? Well, the mythological dimension of the legend has been all but exorcised in the film. In the legend, the Greek Gods in part from their rivalry and also that
Jia Xiang Mee
‘Jia xiang’ (Mandarin) is the equivalent of hometown, and ‘mee’ (Hokkian) means noodle. There you have it, a noodles’ dish from the hometown of Sarawak (Malaysia). Yang and I went down to Compass Point for dinner on Tuesday evening. There
Troy – Part 3
OK, what about the movie now? I’ll start by commenting on the good parts. Firstly, Petersen’s film cleverly centers his narrative not on the main story – the stealing of Helen and the war – but on the two opposing
Troy – Part 2
For those of us who’re not familiar with the legend, here’s my summary of it. Paris, a young prince of Troy, is visited by three Goddess who poses to him a question: who’s the fairest of them all. Athena promises
Troy – Part 1
Troy (2004). While blogging about John Woo’s Red Cliff the other day, my mind ventured into a similar retelling of an ancient story of war, tragedy and love: The Trojan War. I dug out my blu-ray edition of Wolfgang Petersen’s
Showing at a local home cinema – Part 9
Quantum of Solace (2008). Quantum of Solace was the first James Bond movie I didn’t catch in the theatre since, well 25 years now. I think it was several things. Daniel Craig is a great actor and has the rugged
Buccaneers Arrrrrrr!!
One of the funniest things about travelling across countries is the amount of smuggling that goes on. I mean, when Matt came by to visit us a year ago, he had a backpack loaded with camera gear for me. And
Showing at a local home cinema VIII
The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008). For this film, I’ll save us the suspense and get right to it: this a one-star, and it isn’t because of Keanu Reeve’s typically wooden acting or Jaden Smith has none of his
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