Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
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
Since picking up the PS3 a year and a half ago, I have been playing a lot less PC games than I used to. I think it’s several things: for starters, console games look amazingly good on a Plasma TV,
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
Pride and Glory (2008) – on rental. There aren’t a lot of recent multi-generational cop dramas in entertainment, and even less so when in movies with their shorter running lengths. With their necessarily larger cast of characters, plots and subplots
Of all the games I’ve played over the last 26 years, there’s been a couple that I still load up every now and then for a go. One is Zeus: Master of Olympus, a city-building simulation that was published 8
My three picks for Fantasy, Super-Heroes & Sci-Fi are Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Matrix (1999) and The Dark Knight (2008). This was a very hard genre to pick favorites from, but I settled with these
Terminator Salvation (2009). If I had to use one word to describe the new Terminator movie, it’d be this: disappointing. McG’s continuation of the Terminator franchise has created a loud and noisy movie that’s more thunder than lightning. This film
Doubt (2008). When scrolling through the list of newly arrived DVD rentals on the Homepal service, I look out for the cast in it and typically will pick up titles because of an actor. I picked up Doubt without knowing
After doing a bunch of reviews, I realized I haven’t started a Fav Film list yet. So, here we go – and identifying only films that were released in the last 20 years, a series of my favorite picks from
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