Lists for the listaholic anonymous amongst us, top ten or otherwise
Characters are the main ingredients that can make or break a movie... even if the film is so-so, a great character portrayed on screen would still make a film memorable. The same is true on the flip side, even if a film is generally well-made, but if you don't connect with the characters, you probably …
Continue reading Question of the Week: Which literary characters in film are your favorites?
A biographical film, or biopic (/ˈbaɪɵpɪk/; abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. This week I saw two press screenings (The Butler and Jobs) that are both based on real-life characters. So I thought I'd blog about one of Hollywood's favorite genre [or is …
Continue reading Question of the Week: What’s your favorite biopic(s)?
This list is rather late as we've already passed the halfway mark of the year a few weeks ago. As you know, because of personal circumstances, I had to take a blogging/movie-viewing hiatus for a while, so I missed a few screenings of what could've made my list: Mud, The Bling Ring, World War Z, …
Continue reading The Flix List: Top 10 Movies from the first half of 2013
So much for consistency eh. I meant to do these posts as a monthly series but it has been three months since my last Five Movies in Five Words post. The idea is to come up with five movies from various genres and capture the essence of the film, or whatever that comes to mind …
All right! The wait is almost over for me... After anticipating this for exactly two and a half years, precisely since January 2011 when Henry Cavill was first announced as our Kryptonian hero, the agonizing wait soon comes to an end. Years have turned to months, months to weeks, weeks to days... and now it's …
Continue reading Final Man of Steel Countdown: Top 10 Favorite Superman movie scenes
The final Monday of May is a Memorial Day holiday here, which is a day to remember the fallen men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. As a U.S. resident, I'm definitely grateful of the service of Military men and women. Freedom is definitely NOT free and the people …
Continue reading Memorial Day Special: Pictorial Tribute to U.S. Soldiers in the Movies
I love big tent pole movies and Hollywood love to make them. Studios spent hundreds of millions of dollars on these movies and we the audience expect nothing but big spectacles when we go see them. I hate it when I go see big action films and the climax action scenes were quite lame (Mission: …
Continue reading The Flix List: Top 5 Action Spectacle Endings
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