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  When I saw the billboard for Inception many months ago nearby, I thought that the movie would be some kind of Michael Bay’s or Roland Emmerich’s catastro-fest movie. I read and heard so many good reviews about it that made me quite curious and excited to see it. I have never been a fan [...]

  After watching The Leap Years for the second time – this time with Yani – I was reminded of the songs in the movie. Whilst I still think that the background music is very sacchariney, I think that the songs in the movie are gorgeous: mellow and smooth, just perfect to warm the evenings. [...]

  Being home on Saturday evenings is a rarity for Yani and I – we are usually out in a café somewhere with some Indonesian friends from church, killing time. I suggested to Yani that we should stay home instead – resting ourselves as both of us are having sore throat. Yani suggested that we [...]

  When I received the preview tickets to see Despicable Me, I didn’t know what to expect as I really hadn’t heard anything about the movie – I was only aware of the buzz surrounding Toy Story 3 and Shrek: The Final Chapter. I deliberately didn’t read any reviews nor watched any previews of the [...]

  The year was 1981, at the height of the Cold War. A naïve engineer stationed in Moscow is reluctantly dragged into the world of espionage when he is in contact with a high-ranking KGB, Colonel Sergei Grigoriev. Grigoriev is an idealist who is fast becoming disillusioned with communism, so he starts feeding top secret [...]

  Watching Animal Kingdom is like going on a roller coaster – when you strap yourself in and let the carriage carry you on the journey, it may seem really slow at first until the carriage reaches the tipping point. You are rolled around until you feel sick in your stomach and vainly try to [...]

  New York, I Love You is a collection of microcosmic stories, each an episode in itself that is interlinked with one another. After a successful Paris, je t’aime (which I unfortunately haven’t seen), Emmanuel Benhiby decided to use New York as the next backdrop of love stories. Some are tragic, some are sweet and [...]

  What is it with Amanda Seyfried and letter writing? First it was Mamma Mia, then Dear John and now Letters to Juliet. I went to see the movie with clear expectations that the premise of the movie will be highly predictable: girl meets boy, girl gets boy – the process in between was also [...]

  Watching Father of my children (Le père de mes enfants) is like being invited by a family for dinner. Charming children and pleasant parents, you think to yourself. They engage you in a conversation when you come. After a while you start to get seriously hungry but they keep on talking, covering seemingly random [...]

  There are movies that hit you and make you think – and Welcome (Welcome) is one of them. It’s a story about the friendship between Simon Calmat, a hardened and disillusioned swimming instructor and Bilal, an illegal migrant from Iraq who is stuck in Calais, France and wants to swim across the Channel to [...]