2011 December : Up in the Air Movies with Singapore Airlines

The past few months before December 2011, I got so busy that I wasn’t able to have my regular dose of movies. As much as I was eager to take my vacation to Paris & Switzerland come December, I must admit that I was also excited to be on that long haul flight from Manila [...]

Real Steel

  TOP FIVE REASONS TO WATCH THIS FILM: 1. IF YOU LOVE BOXING. 2. IF YOU LOVE ROBOTS. 3. IF YOU LOVE SCI-FI. 4. IF YOU LOVE GOOD STORIES. 5. IF YOU LOVE GREAT MOVIES!!! BONUS: *IF YOU LOVE HUGH JACKMAN. (WHO DOESN’T?!) **DAKOTA GOYO SUCH A GREAT ‘KID’ ACTOR. I CRIED IN THIS MOVIE BECAUSE [...]

The Painted Veil

The thing you will notice is the stunning cinematography from the very beginning of this film.  It’s about a newly married couple, played by Edward Norton ~ who’s clearly one of the most unassuming but truly versatile actors in Hollywood and Naomi Watts as his wife.  They travel to a remote province in China to [...]

Don Juan DeMarco & Chocolat

“There are those that do not believe that a single soul born in heaven can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to earth where over oceans and continents their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But, how else to explain love at first sight? We were convinced that there [...]

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Last night I was able to finish watching the Swedish Millennium trilogy that is so popular that Hollywood is doing a remake of the three movies that will be shown sometime this year and the next couple of years.  After seeing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo few months back, I saw the sequel The [...]

The Illusionist

This animated film is unique in a sense that it only contained a few dialogue (and I do mean like maybe 20 words?! in Gaelic nonetheless!) throughout.  But you don’t really need to understand the words, because the actions are enough to tell the story.  As for the story itself, if I didn’t think to [...]

A Very Long Engagement & Revolutionary Road

HBO is currently showing two great movies that anyone should watch if given the chance.  First is the lovely French film A Very Long Engagement. This film is about childhood friendship that turns into teenage love and a very long engagement after the war broke, hence the title.  A lot of people are comparing this [...]