WHEN I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to be Dead — it’s a movie title to tickle pink, isn’t it? And it does, offering some insight into the making of a happy marriage, with some laughter… Read More
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Ode to Beatles a happy satire
MIRACLES can happen… who would have thought Benedict Cumberbatch would be a sex symbol? And that sets off the tone of the Danny Boyle movie,Yesterday. It’s a giggly, tongue-in-cheek, sweet fantasy-comedy-romance that lets you leave the… Read More
Late Night movie proves winsome
MINDY Kaling of The office and The Mindy Project fame brought, yes, wit, but also interesting fashion style to her engaging screenplay-turned-movie Late Night. As Molly, the bright-eyed bushy-tailed “diversity hire” for a late-night talk… Read More
Two Is a Family’ (‘Demain tout commence’)
THIS is a weeper of a movie, as proven by the numerous sobs and tears shed at the recent screening for Le French Festival 2018. Two is a Family, a remake of the 2013 Spanish-language… Read More
The Miracles Of The Namiya General Store movie
The Japanese award-winning Toshiyuki Nishida plays the titular role of provision-shop owner Namiya with class and finesse in this sweet movie, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store. His teenage ‘sidekicks’ – three male orphans… Read More
Mountain Between Us movie lacks chemistry
The survival-romance tale, The Mountain Between Us, sees Academy Award winner Kate Winslet as Ashely and Idris Elba (Ben) playing the two main characters who are stranded after a plane crash. He’s a neurosurgeon on… Read More
The square, movie extraordinaire
https://www.nst.com.my/lifestyle/groove/2017/12/310521/be-there-or-be-square-review THE movie’s title, The Square, refers on a microlevel to a new public installation at a contemporary art museum, presumably in Denmark which curator, Christian (the handsome, 6′ 4″-tall Claes Bang) has just acquired.… Read More
“Murder on the Orient Express,” with Kenneth Branagh
Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express,” written in 1934, got a contemporary telling under British thespian-actor-director Sir Kenneth Branagh. The story is about the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who returns to England aboard… Read More