If you've never read The Hobbit before, or aren't a purist, I suppose you'll like it. Everyone else will have many bones to pick.
Very few movies nowadays truly deserve the title "cinematic masterpiece"; but Gravity is one of them. You have to go to the cinema to view it to appreciate just how much of a masterpiece it is, and you have to watch it in 3D -- preferably in IMAX, but definitely in 3D. (And I'm speaking as someone who hates watching things in 3D.) Watching it in any other form -- on TV, on your computer; or even worse, your smartphones and tablets -- would be to rob yourself of an experience that movies have been trying to build themselves up to since the very beginnings of cinema: To immerse its viewers in an experience so akin to reality you feel you are amongst the characters on screen in that very moment.
Watched two movies last night: a documentary about Formula 1 called 1 (trailer below), and Rush, about the 1970s rivalry between F1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, starring Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl and Olivia Wilde.
The working class lives wretchedly in this bleak drama where nobody makes good decisions.
Watched Ilo Ilo on Tuesday to see what the fuss is about. The theatre was packed with other like-minded people too -- because I highly doubt that it would have gotten such a huge reception if it didn't win the Camera d'Or at Cannes. It's a subtle, introspective indie-ish drama: not the loud, brash comedies that typical Singaporean moviegoers look for in local films, judging from top-grossing Singaporean movies like Money Not Enough and Ah Boys to Men.
Can't believe it's been eight years since Pride & Prejudice with Kiera Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen was released! Here's a short review of my second impressions of it.
Pretty funny, though a little sacrilegious.
