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Elysium
Elysium is supremely boring despite the promising premise.
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hello i am back ... Army Daze
ARMY DAZE is a probably my least-favorite Michael Chiang script ... the subject matter that never really interested me ... some 20 years later, my NS was such a traumatizing experience I'd still much rather forget ... hence the non-desire to revisit it in the theatre or cinema (no, I have not watched Ah Boys to Men either) ... when mimi_choo invited me to ( Read more... ) -
TBL
... so i got to use my new Visa pay-wave card today ... it works just like in the commercial too ... how fun! The Bourne Legacy isn't a reboot (thank god), nor is it about Jason Bourne/Matt Damon, its a parallel story which takes place around the same time as Bourne Supremacy ... there's just a tad too much exposition at the beginning ... but we ( Read more... ) -
Total Recall
... so Jessica Biel gets shortchanged in Total Recall ... I suppose if your husband (Len Wiseman) is the director of this reboot, he is gonna make damn sure Kate Beckinsale looks her simpering best ... I don't think I ever watched the original with Arnold Schwarzenegger ... Colin Farrell plays his "Hauser" with a furrowed brow that screams for a ( Read more... ) -
Purple
... so its kinda disheartening to watch a production like Purple (Toy Factory) and realize that society's perceptions of transgender individuals haven't changed ... I watched the original staging of Purple (when I was a mere child) with Dex Tan playing "Maggie Lai" ... Shane Mardjuki is a convincing "Maggie", although his hokkien/mandarin ( Read more... ) -
La Cage Aux Folles
... so i was kinda reluctant to watch La Cage ... I think its signature anthem I Am What I Am is simply a dreadful overwrought number that has been done-to-death with varying degrees of success by drag queens over the years ... while I appreciated the attempt to localize the story to make it more identifiable to a Singapore audience, it was however ( Read more... )
