Coming-of-age road-trip movies are always fun to watch, especially when it involves dork boys trying to become men (think American Pie) . In The Inbetweeners, the 4 main characters Will, Simon, Jay, and Neil spend two weeks in Malia, Crete after their A Levels. Their trip was not without hiccups – plane delays, paltry accommodation…
(Image taken from Flicksandbits.com) Contagion is a film about an epidemic, basically. It starts with an American woman bringing the highly deadly disease back from Hong Kong and spreading the disease – on the plane, to her son and his school, her town… in different corners of the world the disease spread like wildfire. The…
Image taken from IWatchStuff.com Haven’t gotten around to blogging about this, so here goes. For the umpteenth time, I don’t get the title. Dark of the moon, seriously? Dark is not a noun and will never be. You might as well have said Slimy of the Moon, or Flat of the Moon. It just does…
*Spoilers Alert!* Synopsis: The second installment of the highly acclaimed Kung Fu Panda animated film starts with an introduction of a new nemesis, Lord Shen, voiced by Gary Oldman. Lord Shen, a peacock heir to the ruler of Gongmen city, has ambitions of the wrong kind, and in a prediction by the soothsayer, was said…
This is an atypical boy-meets-girl story; Joey and Gin both starred in a pro-marriage video by a networking company W.E.D. The tender sweet love portrayed in the video convinces everyone that Joey and Gin are a real-life couple, including Joey. Delusional, she starts to plan a wedding while stalking Gin. Little did she know, Gin…
No Strings Attached is a romantic comedy set in Los Angeles exploring the relationship between the main characters Emma and Adam, played by Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. Emma is portrayed as a medicine intern afraid to fall in love, looking only for casual encounters and no strings attached arrangements. Adam recently fell out of…
Synopsis: John Smith is not your ordinary teenager. An extra-terrestrial from the planet Lorien, he was one of the nine children saved from the annihilation of their enemies. Now their enemies have come to Earth and have started to hunt them down. Three are dead, John is number four. *Spoiler alert*
Synopsis: Ali (Christina Aguilera) leaves small-town Iowa to fulfill her performer dream in Los Angeles. She winds up at the Burlesque Lounge run by Tess (Cher). Ali begs her way to be put onstage and becomes an overnight sensation. Tess, in the meantime, faces a financial crisis and risks losing her club. *Spoiler alert*
*SPOILER ALERT* Synopsis: Nina, the newly selected Swan Queen will play both the White Swan and Black Swan in Swan Lake. Encouraged to let loose her inhibitions, Nina explores a world beyond the pink fluffy shelter her obsessive mother has built for her. In the process of letting loose she loses herself and take on…
Mahmood, a middle-age Muslim man in Britain, following his mother’s death, found out he was adopted from Jewish birth parents. He hunts down his birth father, only to be denied a meeting because he was not Jew enough. In order to secure this meeting with his birth father, Mahmood sets out on a journey to…
