Reviews of films/TV shows/trailers
Can’t believe it was a decade ago that this MCU’s lesser-known IP about a ragtag group of intergalactic misfits was released. Admittedly, I was a bit blasé when it came out and was feeling superhero fatigue (yep, even then!), but the movie ended up winning me over. The novelty quickly wears off by the second …
Happy Star Wars Day!! It's still mid afternoon where I am, so I thought I take some time to highlight the BEST live-action series streaming on Disney+... Now, even based on just the first season alone, I can confidently say that this Tony Gilroy-created series starring Diego Luna is truly one of the best series streaming …
Fresh out of covering #MSPIFF42 where I got to watch quite a few directorial debuts by women, I missed out on this one, but thankfully Focus Features are offering free screenings at various theaters nationwide. Polite Society is an action comedy set in a Pakistani family in London, written and directed by British Pakistani filmmaker …
Happy May!! Technically we're supposed to be entering Summer soon, but yesterday was still so cold and extremely windy! We got a taste of Summer with a couple of days in the 80s in mid-April but that's about it! 
In any case, here's what I watched last month: NEW MOVIES (films indicated with * …
Continue reading What I Watched in April 2023 + Mini Reviews + My Pick of Movie(s) Of the Month
There are plenty of returning filmmakers at MSPIFF whose films have screened in previous years. One of them is Finnish filmmaker Klaus Härö whose Estonian/set drama The Fencer was one of my faves in 2016. I immediately got the ticket for this when I saw James Cosmo’s name as the lead and the fact that …
There have been an increasing amount of stranger-than-fiction origin stories lately… with AIR, Tetris, Blackberry, and even the popular Frito-Lay spicy snacks, Flamin’ Hot. I have to admit I can’t handle spicy stuff (yes I know, my fellow Indonesian friends make fun of me ALL the time), so I have never even tasted Flamin’ Hot …
We're now past the halfway point of MSPIFF and I've seen about nine movies so far… wish I had seen more of course but hey, I'll take whatever I can get as I'm juggling a 40-hour workweek. These two films couldn't be more different from one another, but both are definitely worth your while. The …
Continue reading #MSPIFF42 Double Reviews: The Hamlet Syndrome (documentary) + Dancing Queen
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