Drama

Frost/Nixon

What’s great about this movie was the performances by Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, more so with Sheen. Even though I’ve never seen Frost or Nixon before, but what the actors brought to their roles were so in-character that you would believe in these characters, didn’t matter if they existed in reality or not.

Frost when [...]

Mongol

The early life of Genghis Khan. This picture boasted beautiful scenery and costumes that gave a sense of the nomadic lifestyle of that era.

But the story, however close to the truth, was a little dull. Much of the time we see Temudjin got captured, escaped, ran, captured again, and so on and so forth. It [...]

Haeundae

What’s typical about the story was its style like many other Korean movies, the first half was filled with humour before the drama and disaster set in. What’s typical was like many other Hollywood disaster movies, the story first focus on a few group of people and their individual stories first, before going into the [...]

State Of Play

It’s time Ben Affleck steps out of the negative light that has surrounded him over the years because he is a fine actor and probably a fine director too. Together with the rest of the big names in the cast, this movie was a runaway surprise for me.
The story provided the thriller and Kevin McDonald [...]

Public Enemies

With a film directed by Michael Mann that starred Johnny Depp as a smooth bank robber and Christian Bale as the law enforcer, there was a strong appeal here right from the start. Unfortunately the film never really lived up those potentials.

Much was to be blamed on the screenplay by Mann and his co-writers, Ronan [...]