“I don’t have the strength to stay away from you anymore.”

Got to see Twilight, the high school romantic movie of the year which was adapted from the best-selling book series of Stephanie Meyer, the next author after JK Rowling who suddenly made reading fictions among teens fashionable.  When the movie started showing, books of the whole series were nowhere to be found in the bookstores.  Blame [...]

Melancholia

With my better half, I watched the highlight film of this year’s Dekada Cinemanila, Melancholia, the nine-hour magnum opus of revolutionary filmmaker Lav Diaz.  This is the film that won Grand Prize in the Orizzonti Section during the 65th Venice Film Fest.  A rare cinematic experience we must say, the film per se and the [...]

Dekada Cinemanila Fever

Catched two Cinemanila films one after the other yesterday: Not Quite Hollywood (Australia) and The Band’s Visit (Israel).

Not Quite Hollywood, a documentary by Mark Hartley, gives you an unstoppable and invigorating dose of Aussie flicks of Ozploitations from the 60s and beyond.  Sex and nudity, violence, graphic grossness, explosions, weird death-defying stunts, car chases, horror and gore characterize [...]

Body of Lies

Watched Body of Lies last weekend.  The convoluted plot revolves around CIA agent DiCaprio as he finds himself in many countries, notably Jordan where he pursues an Osama bin Laden-like terrorist behind the spates of bombings in key cities, getting orders from his boss played by Russell Crowe.  The “jihad” of Moslems is explained for [...]

Sinister Joker

Watched The Dark Knight and loved it so much.  Aside from seeing the caped crusader negotiate the dark streets of Gotham city again with cool gadgets and vehicles, the sinister performance of Heath Ledger as The Joker capped the two-and-a-half hour experience.  His swan song speaks volumes of the depth of his portrayal of the [...]

I’m bleeding from inside my brain

 Still recovering from intellectual shock after watching There Will Be Blood on the big screen.  Shock from moral issues that this Oscar-winning movie presents, primarily the heights (and depths) of one’s ambition and the duel between faith and reason. Portrayed by no less than Daniel Day Lewis, Daniel Planview, the lead character is a man driven by [...]

To reality and back…

Took a long while before finally being able to see this movie considering I have listened to its wonderful all-Beatles soundtrack even before Christmas. The movie and the sound files I have of course dowloaded for free using torrent (a little patience=big savings!)   The movie is a transcendental love story that takes the viewers to great hallucinating heights [...]