I'M BACK!

Finally, after having abandoned my page for so long, I have decided to make a quick stop. I will be posting up reviews very, very soon and hopefully it'll keep on coming. With my relentless commitment to my studies as I approach my final year of my undergraduate studies, I must say I had to give up reviewing for a while. Although my schedule isn't getting any looser, I think I might be able to still get by one or two movies occasionally and write about it. So lets hope I can start the ball rolling again, shall we?

Rachel Getting Married

Finally....the movie I have been waiting around for has made the wait all worthwhile. Anne Hathaway has graduated from being a teen princess to Gay man's wife to Miranda Priestly's assistant to actual gifted, talented STAR. She has blossomed into a flower of a million colourful petals. Nothing less than GREAT could be said of her performance. The rest of the cast were just as amazing; Debra Winger, Rosemary DeWitt and Bill Irwin are just to name a few. It's a pity it didn't quite have a big theatrical release here in Malaysia. I love the handheld camera angle director/producer Johnathan Demme created. It feels fresh, making it appear as though it's some sort of mockumentary. Dramentary would be nice. The film had great a wedding as the title role and racial mix turned out to be a good idea. Hathaway and DeWitt made a good sister-sister pair and you should wait till you see some action between Winger and Hathaway. She really did earn her Academy Award nomination. Too bad she was in a league too ahead of her.

Beautifully encapsulating.

A passing of life.

Just this once, it's not going to be anything about movies. I've taken the liberty in this post to convey my deepest condolences to a person I know dearly who has just lost her father. I know it's not easy to loose a parent but I'm not going to go on saying that I understand how it feels because I don't. In times like these, you pray and hope Dear God allows for all the strength and willpower you need to deal with such a terrible loss. With so much still ahead for you and your family, you just think that you shouldn't have deserved this from Him. You challenge to question why but it's all beyond your authority. You find yourself helpless and insignificant before His every doing. It's a humbling feeling so overwhelming you learn time and time again. Indeed, you must however, though how small at times you may feel, you will always find the means to accept His say if you dig in deep enough. Enough to believe that He knows best, better than you will ever imagine for what gracious and rewarding returns He never fails to deliver.

Linda, God speed and May He bless you and your family indefinitely.

Al-Fatihah for Allahyarham Zainal Bin Hj. Romli.

Yes Man

Ahh...yes, man...hmm...plus a girl = A stale comedy that is confused with being romantic. I gotta give it to ya Jim you really had me in stitches- not! Popcorn at the movies could have never seemed more appealing- it was all I was interested in. I mean, seriously, those wacky faces, the getting tangled up in tape, the funny walk and slapstick gone overboard are just not what people want to see anymore, well for me especially. And to think that the producers got hold of Zoey Deschanel (nice name though) who's probably half Jim's age, on and off-screen, to be paired to him is perhaps another reason why not to see this movie. Jim's moving on into his 50's and those "I used to be a loser and after a heck of a breakthrough here's the love of my life and what do ya know, I ain't no loser no more! " comic relief come romance genres are not what you want to associate with someone who's passed half a century. He'd be better off playing Hoffman's character in Meet the Fockers or something like that. They played a very diffrent ball game and more often than not it just does not work. If this was something along the line of The Mask or Ace Ventura than certainly without a doubt it might have got me going...or not. Comedies are treasured collections for nachos or popcorn and beer nights and you want to still be able to watch it 10, 15 years down the line with the same kind of wit anticipation without being put off by sick jokes.

And the Oscar goes to...

Although this might deviate slightly from a movie review, I'm just too excited to have let it passed. I am talking about the upcoming Academy Awards this February and boy do we have a competition this year! With the likes of Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Kate Winslet competing for the prized best actress award, we can definitely hope for a bang this time around. Their male counterparts aren't too far off the mark either with Sean Penn for his supposedly incredible performance in Milk (I will have the review of it when I get to see it...someday) and the surprising comeback of Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler directed by Darren Aronofsky, a superb filmaker in his own right whose other films include The Fountain and Requeim For a Dream, also nominated for best picture once. I am too overly estatic about Slumdog Millionaire because it sure is making all the buzz this year, especially after winning at The Golden Globes. It's been a year of filmaking frenzy, 2008. All the harder to take a pick!

So whose night will it be?

Eagle Eye

It's come in a little late but this movie is really worth watching. Though I wouldn't exactly put it amongst the best pictures of the year '08, it certainly had its thrills. One would appreciate perhaps, the efforts of D. J. Caruso (the director) trying his best to make the plot look as if its much to offer than what already is. The plot is set so hastily to make this happen, i.e. with the extended car chases and even more so the heavily perspiring chases on foot (Le Beouf must have had tones of vaseline tubs to go through with all that sticky sweat running down his face). For Le Beouf in particular, Eagle Eye was just a slight variation from his performance in Transformers where machines got the better of humans, only this time the machine had Julianne Moore's voice and his gal pal is no longer the young and hot Megan Fox. Coming back to the thrills I mentioned earlier, it lies in all the very futuristic but believable theories of how we're all being watched and that 1 in 5 of our phone calls are being tapped. This movie however, would give the FBI, CIA and NSA a run for their money with all of that made up crap, but it was entertaining to say the least, both for me and hopefully for you too.

Update

Wow...I know it's been too long since my last review and pardon me so but I've been caught up with a lot of work lately. Yes, it's taken me nearly 5 months to finally end this hiatus. Right...
There will be something very soon....I promise!