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Henry Golding (Nick Young), Constance Wu (Rachel Chu) and Sonoya Mizuno (Araminta Lee) in Crazy Rich Asians

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ review: A Singaporean’s take

Buckle up, because this is going to be a long one. Like many Singaporeans last week, I watched Crazy Rich Asians to see how well Singapore comes off in the movie. I'll try to corral my many thoughts into a manageable puddle here, rather than an uncontrolled torrent of words.

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Read more about the article Movies Coming Soon: October 2017
Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki) in Thor: Ragnarok

Movies Coming Soon: October 2017

This post is so late that some of the movies have came and gone, but I didn't want to skip a month, so it'll partially be a review post too. I have only watched two movies so far this month, so that won't be hard.

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Read more about the article ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ review: More of the same
Taron Egerton (Eggsy), Colin Firth (Harry Hart) and Pedro Pascal (Whiskey) in Kingsman: The Golden Circle

‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ review: More of the same

In this new movie, Eggsy (Taron Egerton) is now a full-fledged member of the Kingsmen, a spy agency masquerading as a posh tailor shop. When a rejected Kingsman applicant works with an insane drug lord called Poppy (Julianne Moore) to take revenge and destroy all the Kingsmen headquarters, Eggsy and remaining survivor Merlin (Mark Strong) go to America to seek help from their spy cousins, called Statesmen, who own a far more profitable whiskey business as a front than their English counterpart.

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Read more about the article ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’ review: An improvement on the horrible ‘On Stranger Tides’, if not as great as the first three movies
Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge

‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’ review: An improvement on the horrible ‘On Stranger Tides’, if not as great as the first three movies

If you've read this blog for long enough, you probably would have come across me ranting about Johnny Depp's falling star and declining quality (and often profitability too) of his movies. But I didn't always dislike Johnny Depp. He used to get me excited about his movies, until On Stranger Tides came out and was so clearly a cash grab in which he just phoned in his oddball schtick and exaggerated his Captain Jack Sparrow mannerisms that I started viewing him with a prejudiced eye. (It didn't help that I am still SHOCKED to this day that Alice in Wonderland, another movie I dislike immensely, earned a billion, undeserving, dollars.)

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Read more about the article ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ review: Fun action comedy that delivers exactly as it says
Ryan Reynolds (the Bodyguard) and Samuel L. Jackson (the Hitman) surrounded by singing nuns in The Hitman's Bodyguard

‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ review: Fun action comedy that delivers exactly as it says

The premise of The Hitman's Bodyguard is all in its title: A hitman needs a bodyguard. Since that obviously sounds like a ludicrous idea -- why would an assassin need a bodyguard? -- what else do you expect of it?

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Read more about the article ‘The Revenant’ review: Torturous
Alejandro González Iñárritu directs Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of The Revenant

‘The Revenant’ review: Torturous

I was talking to my colleagues the other day, and the topic got around to how they would never walk out of a movie halfway, no matter how much they dislike it, because they felt that it was just so rude and disrespectful (to the filmmakers and their efforts in making the film, I suppose). And it reminded me of The Revenant. Because I absolutely hated it.

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