This is a movie about sadness, about frustrated people, and about how they eventually get rid of their sadness. There are four main characters in Powder Blue. Rose Jhonny, the stripper whose son is in a coma. She works really hard to pay the hospital bills. Don’t know where the father’s boy is.

Then there’s Jack Doheny, Rose’s father. He’s been in jail for 25 years, got cancer, just got out of jail, never knew Rose before, and now finds Rose to make up his fault for leaving her. Rose never knew her father.

Qwerty Doolittle, the boy who gets sick when he’s around girls. And the last one is Charlie, the former priest who wants to be dead, but don’t have the courage to kill himself. He asks people to shoot him at his heart and he will pay the shooter 50 grand. Charlie wants to be dead because he’s very lonely, his wife got killed in a car accident, in the day of their wedding, and Charlie was driving. A priest gets married? I guess he got out of the church to get married. (more…)

As you can see in the DVD cover, this movie is about a dog. But is it only about a dog? No, it’s not. I’m not a fan of movies about animal. And if I don’t see Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as the casts, I won’t even see it.

This is the story of John, Jenny, and Marley the dog. John and Jenny was just married and they move into a new town. For a birthday present, John gave Jenny a puppy, which then named Marley by John. Surprisingly, Marley is very naughty, yet very cute and adorable. Problems arise when John and Jenny have kids. The story flows until they grow older and have 3 kids, which means Marley gets older too. (more…)

Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) doesn’t expect much when she moves to the small town of Forks, Washington, until she meets the mysterious and handsome Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) – a boy who’s hiding a dark secret: he’s a vampire. As their worlds and hearts collide, Edward must battle the bloodlust raging inside him as well as a coterie of undead that would make Bella their prey. Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling sensation by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight adds a dangerous twist to the classic story of star-crossed lovers. (more…)

This movie tells a story how a beautiful occasion becomes a nightmare. Eden Lake is a horror / thriller movie that I really enjoy watching.

It all started when Steve took his fiance Jenny to a vacation on the weekend in a remote lake, Eden Lake. Using a car, they went to Eden Lake. The lake is very beautiful, and it was going to be a very nice vacation. Then, on the lake, they met a group of young local teenagers. At first Steve and Jenny were fine with those teenagers, but later they feel disturbed.

Here’s when the tense begins. The teenagers play around with Steve and Jenny. And they do bad, really bad things. I wouldn’t give you any spoiler by telling you what they did to Steve and Jenny, you really should watch it. But I can tell that these are no ordinary teenagers and you will see some violence. (more…)

Pixar made a really genius animation movie in this funny romantic comedy, that starred by a robot who says absolutely nothing for a full 25 minutes, but somehow completely transfixes and endears himself to the audience within the first few minutes of the film.

Wall-E is the last robot left on earth, and is one small robot with a big, big heart who holds the future of earth and mankind squarely in the palm of his metal hand. He’s the only one left from all of the “Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class” robots that were assigned to clean up the environmental mess that man made of earth about 700 years ago. Wall-E is voiced by Ben Burtt. (more…)

This movie tells about a drunkard, doesn’t know any shame, and also not polite, but he has a super power. He can fly, immune of bullets, he has extraordinary power. Just exactly the same as the ability of my favorite superhero Superman. He is John Hancock.

However, because of his behavior, where he does things without thinking, the people do not like the Hancock. Although Hancock often combat crime and apprehend the criminals, but people just do not like it because he often cause losses for the community in his actions.

One day, Hancock saved Ray. Ray works in the field of Public Relations. He saw an opportunity in Hancock. He tempts Hancock to do his instructions. Ray made Hancock apologized to the public, and Hancock also entered the prison. Ray changes Hancock’s behavior to be more polite and better. Ray changed Hancock’s image to be a superhero that the community love. (more…)

When I first discovered the joys of Woody Allen, Interiors came as something of a shock. Where was the man who could effortlessly blend solemn introspection with great belly-laughs? Where was my Woody? I perhaps didn’t feel the revulsion and disdain that some did, but it was definitely one of the dullest things that I had ever witnessed. So imagine my surprise, when on a recent re-viewing I became entranced, enraptured even. How could I have been so wrong all those years ago?

It is in fact something of a masterpiece. Although, masterpiece may be too strong a word for it, as I do still have some reservations. Flawed masterpiece, perhaps. Nevertheless, the first half of the film still drags somewhat, with the dialogue often seeming awkward and self conscious, but perhaps this is deliberate as most of the characters are rather unhappy with their lot. (more…)

Lost in Beijing is a 2007 Chinese film directed by Li Yu and starring Fan Bingbing, Tong Dawei, Tony Leung Ka Fai, and Elaine Jin. It had its international premiere at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival on February 16, 2007. It was produced by Laurel Films, a small independent production company owned by Fang Li and based in Beijing, and it was released internationally by the French company Film Distribution. Distribution in the United States was picked up by New Yorker Films.

Lost in Beijing is actually the first movie that has come out of China,in my opinion, that is of high quality film. It kind of reminds you of a movie made for T.V.. It is a look at modern-day life in China’s capital. It is centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss’s wife. A poor migrant couple and a wealthy couple living in Beijing and how their lives are intertwined through a set of unfortunate and disturbing circumstances. (more…)

Action Thriller.

Loyalty and betrayal. That’s what came into my mind, and will come into yours too when watching this movie.

Vantage Point tells a story about a Secret Service agent Thomas Barnes (played by Dennis Quaid) while he does his job in a global war on terror summit in Spain. Yes, there are no longer story here, just about what happens in this summit.

Barnes was questioned about his readiness to go on duty again after he took a bullet for the president of the US 6 months before the summit. But it turns out that he was more than ready. The president of the US was shot in this summit, and then there was a bomb, chaos! You’ll be given the story one piece at a time until it comes to the big picture.

There are a number of characters here, and you’ll be taken to see each character’s experience at a time until a point in the movie. After you see about a character, you’ll be taken back to 12:00 pm of the day to see other character’s experience. This is done again and again until I felt somewhat frustrated, when will these pieces meet to make the whole story?

But of course, those pieces made the big picture. And I must say I’m quite satisfied with its ending. The actions in this movie is great, and I can say it’s a thriller because of its high tension. Dennis Quaid, although not young anymore, is still able to play the character as a Secret Service Agent very well.

For you action thriller movie fans, this is a movie for you!

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The Orphanage is a horror movie, but it’s also touching. The story is about a woman (Laura) who was raised in an orphanage. She was then adopted by a family.

When she grows up, the orphanage closed. And after she got married, she wanted to open the orphanage again. So she and her husband bought the orphanage. They moved here with their son (Simon). Then strange things start to happen. Yes, ghosts, children ghosts.

Then Simon was missing. Everybody searched for him but couldn’t find him. Laura became frustrated, and her husband had given up. He asked Laura to leave the place, but Laura insisted that she would wait for Simon there, so her husband left her in the orphanage alone. In the end, yes, Laura met Simon again, but I won’t give you any spoiler you should see it for yourself. (more…)