Saw a modern gangland movie version’s retelling of Macbeth, which I studied in school years ago… A case of listening to witches’ hearsay (or heresy?), hearing only what he wanted to hear, his heart’s desires spelled out, trapping and tripping himself with...

If you believe everything is predestined, there is no need to convince me so, because whether I believe it or not is ‘predestined’ too. If you believe you are predestined to try to convince me, go ahead, but don’t be appalled at any ‘predestined’ (lack of)...

A line from ‘Flash Forward’ session two goes – ‘It’s not fate versus free will; it’s fate and free will.’ Someone asked me if the protagonists can’t really change anything. I replied that of course they can. If not, what kind of am engaging TV...

Just when you think the ‘Final Destination’ trilogy was already complete, here comes ‘The Final Destination’ (also known as ‘Final Destination 4′). I guess the first title is so to differentiate it slightly from its three predecessors, though the movie...

Often, I cringe when I hear people say… ‘Maybe it’s not meant to be.’ Because if it’s really just a maybe, why even half-cling to such semi-fatalism?  ‘Maybe it’s not meant to be.’ Another classic oxymoronic expression! Most things are not...

Q: Some believe couples are married because ‘they owe each other in their previous lives’, while ‘children are born to either collect or pay parental debts’. Is this true? A: If the first idea above is absolutely true, it is to pessimistically say that there can never...