Reviews of films/TV shows/trailers
First month of 2015 has come and gone. Hello February! This is always a special time for me as it's my birthday month and I reach a milestone this year [moving up the age bracket 😉 ]. I don't fret about getting older though, as I think you are only as old as you feel and …
Continue reading January 2015 Recap + Pick of Movie of the Month
I've been wanting to check this Alfred Hitchcock classic for ages. It seems to be unanimously loved by critics and audiences alike, which always adds a dose of curiosity to see if it would live up to its classic status. The story centers on a wheelchair bound photographer, Jeff (James Stewart) who spies on his neighbors from …
Continue reading January 2015 Blind Spot: REAR WINDOW (1954)
Happy Monday everyone! It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day and my office is closed in remembrance of Dr. King's birthday. I was reading up about Dr. King's history earlier today and I'm always astonished by how many inspiring comments he had made in his relatively short life. These are just some of my favorites we can all live …
Continue reading Weekend Roundup + Review of Michael Mann’s Blackhat (2015)
The last time Clint Eastwood tackled a war story he made Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima back to back. The former I thought was a good film but contained too many clichés, while the latter I thought was one of the best war films ever made. I think his latest picture …
Hello hello! Hope you had a lovely long Holiday weekend. It's quite a nice and relaxing holiday for me, though it ended up being a pretty busy one hanging out with friends. I did fit in some movie-watching, even went to the cinema for Exodus though it was more of a last-minute decision when some friends invited …
Seems like it was ages ago since I saw the first Hobbit film. But in fact it was exactly two years ago that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was released. There were – and still are – quibbles about how a 320-page book warrants a three-film adaptation, and I was actually one of those people who …
Continue reading Musings on the final Hobbit trilogy: The Battle of the Five Armies
It's been nearly a month since I saw this film, but I'm still thinking about it. In fact, I was just telling a friend over coffee this weekend how the more I think about this film, the more I like it. The story revolves around Riggan Thomson, played by Michael Keaton in an art-imitating-life sort of …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
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