GIRLS smoking ferociously, dancing a la Bollywood energetically, and living life to the max, as only the movies will allow Indian women (in India) to do. I so did like Angry Indian Goddesses, because it… Read More
Category: Cinema
Bahubali 2 : The Conclusion review
I loved this movie. What a magnificent end to this made-up tale from India that enthralled cinema-goers in 2015. Director SS.Rajamouli should be sleeping well at nights now that his magna opus is pleasing people… Read More
The Stopover movie review
WARS are unsettling for everyone, at the very least. The post-battle trauma has been captured on celluloid from the 1968 The Deer Hunter to the 2005’s Jar Head, among others. In The Stopover, the stress… Read More
Watered-down Hidden Figures of the space race
HAVING read Margot Lee Shetterly’s book of the same title before seeing Hidden Figures on the big screen, I found the movie offers a simpler portrayal of the African-American women mathematicians’ roles in the great… Read More
Space between us, feb 3, 2017
The Space Between Us An astronaut only realises her pregnancy after lift-off, leading to her son being raised on Mars instead of on Earth. Sixteen years later, the boy befriends a Colorado girl. The long… Read More
The man who knew infinity, with love
This no typical Hollywood portrayal with licence taken to “sell” the story. The script, written by director Matt Brown based on the biography by Robert Kanigel, instead offers fodder for those who like meat in… Read More
Japan Film fest 2016 in Malaysia
Three-time Japan Academy prize-winning actress Kiki Kilin will be in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 6-7 for the special preview of An, one of two movies that features her in this year’s Japanese Film Festival lineup.… Read More
Freedom in films for Malaysia 2016
Malaysia’s leading annual film festival on human rights, the FreedomFilmFest, returns to PJ Live Arts with a lineup of 30 cutting edge films that offer heart-stopping and rare views into the most gripping global issues… Read More
Bad moms sheer entertaining
My review appeared in the new straits times http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/08/162978/angry-moms-loose THE movie is based on the premise that it is impossible to be a good mother today because of the myriad things she has to do for… Read More
Swinging good entertainment with Tarzan
THE story can get confusing but this movie is completely entertaining. The Legend of Tarzan is now a comic-book hero, on par with Superman and those other Marvel-lous heroes. And the hero is a smoking… Read More