Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
harrypotter14Originally uploaded by chuckmo All right, those who know me know I give Chris Columbus a lot of crap. He is definitely on my list of least favorite directors. However, that being said he did great things for the Harry Potter franchise – just not in terms of directing.While the character of Harry Potter has not yet entrenched itself as wholly and globally as something like Superman (
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang(2005)Originally uploaded by 。scar。史卡兒 So I really, really do love Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. It is a very strange movie, but I love it so. I think that if you can get past the nearly absurd concept of the plot and just hang in there for more than twenty minutes that anyone can enjoy this movie.Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is written by Sane Black who a true buddy cop film lover will
LAGWAGON - "May 16th"
No more waiting on them,As you rise inside new rooms,
Its official,you've gone,You can live for no-one else,
Man the guilt must behuge,Theres no gain in failure,
You succeded at being mine,Yeah, old friend, see ya there,
I will be proud from a far,I can't paint a picture,
In a moment, of memories theres not many left,
I am extrodited,uninvited.
Its just another Saturday.
Stream the entire set here
Serie A 08/09: top goals of the year
Featuring goals from Antonio Cassano(Sampdoria), Javier Zanetti(InterMilan), Acqufresca(Cagliari), Ronaldinho(Milan AC), Lavezzi(Napoli), Kaka(Milan AC), Mauro Zarate(Lazio), Di Natale(Udinese), Del Piero(Juventus), Zlatan Ibrahimovic(InterMilan)
Home for the Holidays
I remember reading reviews for Home for the Holidays that were pretty lack luster, admonishing the film for being too cynical & in bad taste, but in 1995 when the film came out I did not have a knowledge of film, or criticism that would have allowed me a desire to see the film or rebuff the critics. However, now that I have seen Home for the Holidays I can say that I can and will rebuke the
Iron Man
ironman27Originally uploaded by Alessandra Ogeda Iron Man. I really think this is up there with Batman Begins as the movies in my collection I’ll just pull out and pop on whenever I just want something to watch. In my opinion Iron Man is everything a good “popcorn movie” should aspire to be. Instead of being brainless, pointless drivel a good “popcorn movie” should be fun and entertaining but
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Valkyrie
Valkyrie PosterOriginally uploaded by AsceticMonk What I am about to say will upset comic book geeks everywhere.Bryan Singer needs to stop making comic book movies.That’s right. I am calling Bryan Singer out to stop jumping on board with the likes of X-Men and Superman Returns and keep up with what he does best – movies about bad guys and characters in impossible situations – movies like The
From Russia With Love
From Russia with LoveOriginally uploaded by CinefilSite From Russia With Love is one of the Bond movies that I’ve never seen. It’s an early Bond film from before the gadgets, explosions and Bond girls got in the way of Bond. It’s a Bond film that really shows you why exactly Bond is the spy he was built up to be in fiction, why Connery is considered the best Bond to this day, and contrasts
Elf
elf (2)Originally uploaded by ebaycoach The more I watch Elf the more I realize how much I genuinely love this movie. I really think it is one of my favorite Christmas movies ever made. As integral a part as Will Ferrell, James Caan and the rest of the cast is to the magic that makes Elf I truly believe that Jon Favreau is the glue that makes Elf work.After the disappointment that was Indiana
Christmas Vacation
Again I watched National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It’s a Christmas movie and people wanted to watch it on Christmas day, what can I say? Watching this movie again so soon after I last saw it made me appreciate the yuppie neighbors that live next to the Griswold family – Todd and Margo. While the Griswold’s have their faults and would undoubtedly be annoying to live next to Todd and Margo
Fred Claus
Fred ClausOriginally uploaded by AsceticMonk I rented Fred Claus because I wanted to see Vince Vaughn playing with some elves, I really didn’t intend to like it – but I did. I really, really did. Much more than I should like a silly Christmas movie that is all surface and fun. However, it’s in that layer of gloss and frivolity that an entertaining and enjoyable comedy waits, you just have to
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Slumdog Millionaire
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Christmas in Connecticut
If you haven’t figured out I am trying to put myself in a merry mood by watching Christmas movies, so I let my mouse do the clicking on Netflix and I found Christmas in Connecticut. Somehow I have never seen this movie or even heard of it. While Christmas in Connecticut is a fun movie made during the end of WWII and reflects the effervescent spirit Americans needed to deal with the conflicts
Christmas Vacation
When I was a kid my favorite movie to watch during the holidays was National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. To this day I don’t know if anything in my young life made me laugh harder than the first time I saw the squirrel and the Christmas tree. I partially blame this film for my little brother’s obsession with Christmas lights.This is a modern screwball comedy at its best. Christmas Vacation
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The Holiday
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TDTESSOriginally uploaded by haley.tittle Friday I participated in the desire to see Keanu Reeves play an alien in The Day the Earth Stood Still. There is not a whole lot I can say about this film besides the fact that it’s just kind of a movie. The film is not terribly bad, but it’s not exactly good either. It’s just kind of in the middle. All of the pieces are there to make it an entertaining
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Dune
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The Dark Knight
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Laurel Canyon
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It's a Wonderful Life
WonderfulLife049PikturzOriginally uploaded by Pikturz Though I know it will be on a major television network at least once before Christmas Day I could not resist the opportunity to see It’s a Wonderful Life at a flashback screening. I am glad I did. Having only ever seen the film on television I was reminded how often I don’t truly pay attention to movies on TV. Though I have seen It’s a
While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping is a silly little movie but I love it. I think it’s a great combination of holiday movie, romantic and screwball comedies. In a way it reminds me of the cute, light comedies of Hollywood’s golden age and I make sure to watch the movie at least once every holiday season.If you’ve never seen While You Were Sleeping the plot can be quite confusing on paper. Lucy works at the
eid open house at #505, ART 3
Not-so-recently my housemates and me hosted an eidulfitr gathering for our friends and colleagues.
The event starts at 4pm, and Urban Masterplanner xtraordinaire Mr. Alex was the first guest to arrive, at 2.30pm...certainly he was superpunctual, a man ahead of our time...and he head straight to the kitchen to offer some help
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A contingent of hungry mob started to attack our door soon after. Fortunately, as you could see from the following pictures, not many people came.
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Epilogue
For those who came, thank you for making the gathering a pathetic event. For those who was invited but couldn't make it, you made a wise decision.
You guys should go to Malaysian Consulate-General open house at Uum Suqeim instead; they got more choice of food. In addition, they got more rich people there, which make the event less pathetic.
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in an unrelated development, the office management announced the relocation of all personnel at TAK headquarters in Sheikh Zayed Road (yours truly included) to the site office at Nad Al Sheba, sometime this month.
Damn...seems like the teh tarik days at Falcon are numbered
Twilight
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Four Christmases
Four Christmases Poster Originally uploaded by Cine Fanatico The holiday movie season has begun. This means two things – 1: it’s Oscar season so we’ll get Oscar-bait, 2: we are going to be bombarded with holiday themed movies. Four Christmases is not Oscar-bait but one of the standard Christmas fare that comes out between Thanksgiving and New Years; movies that are typically cheapish to make,
Australia
Australia PosterOriginally uploaded by AsceticMonk Baz Luhrmann doesn’t follow the trends; he doesn’t pay attention to what is popular at the theatres now and try to emulate it – he just makes the movies he feels need to be made and Australia is one of these films. I will heartily admit that I have a slightly biased opinion of Australia as I was able to see a preview screening before seeing the
Australia
On October 5 I was surprised to see that the preview screening I got to be a part of was Australia by Baz Luhrmann. This was a very rough version of the film, the color timing wasn’t finished, visual effects were rough at best, and the film did not have it’s score in place amongst many other things.I’m going to start with the negatives of the film, but keep in mind that as this was a rough
Twilight
Twilight--MAKEOUT!! lolOriginally uploaded by hvyilnr Twilight was the number one film at the box office over the weekend; we all knew it would be because Harry Potter was pushed to the summer. I read the books and from the trailer and advanced footage I was able to see I knew the movie was going to have issues; unfortunately, I was right. The filmic version of Twilight reads like it was A)
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Day The Earth Stood StillOriginally uploaded by twm1340 The Day the Earth Stood Still is a science fiction classic. I have been trying to see it for years and only successfully saw it when I got it from my Netflix queue a few days ago.On principle I shouldn’t like The Day the Earth Stood Still because it is a message movie, but I do; the message in this movie is give up your nuclear arms and
Strictly Ballroom
Baz Luhrmann is a contemporary film god – at least I think so; Luhrmann makes films that manage to dazzle and thrill me and make me feel like a ten year old kid watching the movies all over again – granted a ten year old kid with vast film knowledge but still, the metaphor works. The very first film that Luhrmann dazzled me with was not his first film, I had never even heard of Strictly Ballroom
Brand Upon The Brain!
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
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The New World
Since 1969 Terrence Malick has only directed five movies and written less than a dozen; as such when he does make a movie I tend to pay attention. His last movie was The New World. Malick is an eccentric filmmaker, one known for tackling subjects differently than anyone else, and actually making his movies in ways no one else ever would. The New World is a great example of this; Malick released
Quantum of Solace
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Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is on my list of guilty pleasure movies; I’m not quite too sure why it’s a guilty please but it just feels like one of those movies I shouldn’t love as much as I do. The film is yet another of Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare adaptations and while I haven’t seen all of his Shakespeare adaptations, I think this one might stand as one of my favorite adaptations right up there
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
There are always those movies that get caught up in a critical or fan frenzy when they come out and become absolutely huge. Some of these movies are big movies to begin with and are elevated even further (The Dark Knight) and some of these incredibly praised films are at the complete opposite end of the spectrum so that when they begin to be praised so greatly they are elevated beyond the little
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
When Dawn of the Dead came out I avoided it like the plague. I really didn’t think it could be any good; remakes in general are usually never worth your time and even though I hadn’t seen George Romero’s original at the time I knew there would be no way that a remake by a then no-name director would be able to hold a candle to the original. Turns out Zack Snyder and James Gunn had the same
Let the Right One In
Somehow only about seven theatres in America got Let the Right One In and one of them was a theatre near me – I didn’t even have to drive to LA. Halleluiah, because I wanted to see this movie very badly. I do think I’m probably in the minority of people that wanted to see Swedish language child vampire film for recreation.Let the Right One In is not a vampire movie in the traditional sense. The
Friday the 13th
mrs. voorheesOriginally uploaded by hypostylin If you don’t want to know the end of Friday the 13th don’t read this. I cannot discuss this film without discussing the end in detail. It wouldn’t do the film justice any other way.I didn’t have the typical lack of knowledge most people do going into Friday the 13th; I knew the ending. How? I’ve seen Scream. Anyone that has seen the first 15 minutes
Coming Soon: a little behind
Life is catching up with me right now and I am a little behind on my posts. Here's what you have to look forward being reviewed when I catch up.
The Machinist
Many people came into awareness of Christian Bale with Batman, but those of us in the know have been watching his films since before even American Psycho brought him into cult status. The man was in Empire of the Sun - Spielberg knows what he’s doing. Anyway, one of the astonishing things about Bale being in Batman Begins was what he did before. He lost about 60+ pounds to play the lead in The
syawal 1429 AH (part 2)
a lame recap of whats on during the Holy Month of Syawal
Of Prayers and Open Houses on the 1st day of Syawal
Eid prayers on the morning of victorious celebration, at Malaysia Trade Centre, Lamcy Plaza. The only place in Sheikhs-land where you could hear the Khutbah in Bahasa Melayu. Gracefully organised by Malaysian-UAE community
Then, we blasted off to a marathon of open houses. First up is Syawal-Hafizah open house at the nearby Art 2 Apartment. The usual suspects of raye delicacies are all there for grabs.
Spend quite some time there before proceed to the next victim: Wan Azmi/Ishak/Firdaus Open House at Oriental Apartment. Me and a few friends decided to go there by foot, and with our full baju Melayu attire i could say that we were quite the attention of the road commuters and passers-by. No tragic accidents were reported though.
Went back to my place for Faridz/Nana/Kak Laily open house, their unit is located on the 4th floor (mine 5th). A huge mob presence has significantly create a tremors on the floor slab
My housemates who couldn't make it on the morning, went to pay a visit on the afternoon instead, and me with my 9-inch muke tebal couldn't resist to tag along for a second melantak session
(additional picture credit: Zamzuri, Nazmi, Faridz)
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TAK Raya Open House
The event was organised by the management for staffs and family. Part of the Nad Al Sheba site office was turned into a hall of Hari Raye xtravaganza and ampun maaf clowning act.
Along with Mr Nizar (my boss), Mr TAK himself was there at the hall main entrance to greet everybody who came in droves (...for duit raye)
Apart from the usual makan2 till you drop, a karaoke competition was shamelessly organised. Brave contestants were lined up and embarrassed one after another.
Actually, a few of them managed to elevate the hall's roof with their vocal prowess. Najdi, for example, was in different class. His rendition of Scorpion's 'Still Loving You' was sublimely delivered. It is safe to say that the job of Klaus Meine, the Scorpion vocalist, is now in huge jeorpardy
Fortunately for Najdi, i took a 65 second clip of his performance and uploaded it into the Tube for the world to see
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Cityscape Dubai
Cityscape Dubai was an annual real estate, architecture, urban planning and design exhibition which was held from 5th to 8th October at Dubai International Exhibition Centre.
Cityscape Dubai was an annual real estate, architecture, urban planning and design exhibition which was held from 5th to 8th October at Dubai International Exhibition Centre.
Hazrel, Det and me went to checkout what the fuss is all about on the 2nd day of the exhibition
among the many attractions was a number of rad graphical simulation to showcase a certain design/property, and thankfully Det managed to vidcap one of them:
errr...is that awesome or what?
Building industry players from all over the globe attended the exhibition. I even stumbled with my studiomate Azwan aka Wano who made the trip all the way from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai with his boss...(Bro, bile lu dah famous jangan lupe gua)
(additional picture credit:Det)
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A Kenduri Doa Selamat for a departing friend
A Kenduri Doa Selamat for a departing friend
Recently one of my housemate, Zaki, has decided to move on to greener pastures. A Doa Selamat and makan2 was organised to wish him all the best for the future undertakings. You too bro, soon when you are famous,do not forget us
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