July 2008

The Bank Job

A surprisingly semi-cleverly written bank heist supposedly based on true events that happened in the 70’s, and compiled together to make them linking events in this movie.

Somewhat complicated even, during the first half, but everything tied together nicely in the end. It wasn’t mindblowing though it probably was worked towards that effort, but still a [...]

The Savages

The movie boasted one of the best original screenplays written and directed by Tamar Jenkins and a cast who specialises in character-acting.

The story itself looks at the realistic view of an American family living apart and the predicament when the parent got old and sick. It’s about three characters in one small period where their [...]

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

This is the type of humour that I really don’t or can’t get. The jokes are the stupid kind, they don’t really make sense, which is what John C. Reilly has so oftenly provided. They are just there because it’s stupidly funny. And I don’t appreciate stupidly funny. I don’t know why I would expect [...]

Red Cliff

I admit that I have never read the book nor know much of its stories so perhaps my appreciation for this movie will be different. Not to mention my local cinema brought in the shorter version (120 minutes long as compared to the 150 minutes in neighbouring Singapore – 30 minutes is a lot of [...]

The Dark Knight

This is certainly one of the best comic book superhero movie ever made, and arguably one of the best movies of our time.

A large part of that is thanks to the superb writing by the Nolan brothers. A story filled with suspense, twists and turns that drove the movie along with incredible speeds; and never [...]