Musings

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) – on rental. This really is the third of a trilogy of movies, of which the first installment was in 2003 and turned into a cult hit. What’s the trilogy about? Well – vampires

The third Hood film was released not only in the wake of Prince of Thieves: it was a parody of Costner’s film. I’m speaking of Mel Brooks’ Robin Hood: Men in Tights. There’s no shortage of film parodies this year,

Frost/Nixon (2008) – on rental. Director Ron Howard’s output seems to fluctuate quite a bit. On the one hand, I really liked Apollo 13 but on the other hand, his move adaptations of the two Dan Brown novels – Angels

Since I’m on the topic of sword and sorcery movies, I thought I’d do a couple of posts on Robin Hood films too.:) Like the Arthurian Legends, there’s been over the decades so much novelization and entertainment media adaptations of

Valkyrie (2008) – on rental. This was a hugely hyped film depicting the most well-known of assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler when Allied forces were approaching from both the West and East sides of Germany. The film was directed by

I really enjoyed the recent Ratatouille too, which we watched with our small group at GV in Plaza Singapura. Like Monsters Inc., I especially liked this also Pixar film largely because of its refreshing story of a mouse who dreams

My three picks for animated features: Monsters, Inc. (2001), Ratatouille (2007) and Surf’s Up (2007). This is an interesting genre: over the years, there was a large gap from the 60s to 80s in which there weren’t many quality animated

Besides the legend of Troy and of the Greek heroes and which I wrote a series of blog entries about here, the other mythological story I’ve always been fascinated with is that of Arthurian Legends. That said, I’m less familiar

Appaloosa (2008) – on rental. One of the movie genres that I miss watching a lot is the American Western. There hasn’t been very many of these over the years, but the ones which had appeared have been mostly good

Bride Wars (2009) – on rental. I’ll just save us time and cut right to the end: this comedic film is utterly stupid and just not funny. Which is more the pity, because the leads are two of Hollywood’s favorite