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
Category: Entertainment
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
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
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
The West Wing
I remarked briefly here the other week that The West Wing is one of the best three drama TV series I’ve followed. The series is set in the White House and is about the fictional presidential administration of Josiah Bartlet,
Showing at a local home cinema VII
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). I thought the first one was awful. It could had that starting a few years back, we’ve got saturated with animal-esque animated films. Few productions can match the consistent inventiveness and visuals of a Pixar
Showing at a local home cinema VI
More recent viewings at home.:) Australia (2008) . This big and crazily expensive 2 hr 45 minute epic that cost SGD200 million dollars to make got a lot of press attention in the months of production, and had two big
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