The James Bond movie franchise had its 50th anniversary recently. Despite many themes of death in their titles, say, ‘You Only Live Twice’, ‘Live & Let Die’, ‘A View To A Kill’, ‘The Living Daylights’, License To Kill’, ‘Tomorrow...

From ‘The Dark Knight Returns: Part 1′, a news feature says this, ‘[Bruce] Wayne [who is Batman], who sponsored Dent’s [Two-Face the villain] rehabilitation, had this to say just days before Dent’s release: “As a city, we have to give Harvey every chance to...

Super Short Story (196): Ransom She wondered what’s the point of paying his continual ransoms without guarantee that this is the last time. Yet, not paying it this time, he is bound to continue his ransoms, just as expectedly, endlessly. She decided to be uncontactable, while looking...

The above is Faith Yang’s (楊乃文) song ‘Proof’ (證據). The video depicts mildly voodoo-ish scenes, and the words sing of vengeance for an ‘unfairly’ broken heart. The most interesting scene is the last though, when she sings the following and finally smiles...

Question: My friend’s business partner cheated her of her money. She wants to send him to jail. Answer: If the culprit is unrepentant, this might be the only way. Question: As an alternative, my friend could consider settling the matter privately than go to the police. Answer: If...

I can’t remember which comic the above panel is from. A vampire (if I remember correctly) laments to a vampire slayer, ‘We eat to survive! Do you avenge for cows and fish too? What have we done wrong? Who are you to judge us?’ Not that there are real vampires, if I become...

Empathy instead of disgust arises when one realises that another’s horrible behaviour, could have arisen from horrible suffering. - Stonepeace In the movie ‘Confessions’, a mother meticulously plots to exact vengeance on the two killers of her daughter. It is surely ...

The film ‘Monga’ is unnerving because it is realistic – as what featured could really happen in real life, if not already… many times over. Of how innocence can easily become deviousness. What happens when a group of boys befriend one another with a strong sense of...

The most enlightening part of ‘The Losers’ was when the cornered Jensen uttered something ‘true to bluff’ those pointing guns at him… (Yes, it’s paradoxical) - ‘In the words of Ancient Tibetan [Buddhist] masters, “Don’t start none…...

From ‘The Amazing Spider-man: Family Ties’: Uncle Ben: Peter… you’ve never been in a fight in your entire life. Peter: So. Have you? Uncle Ben: A few times. Peter: Bet you were a regular Bruce Willis, huh? Kicking butt and taking names. Uncle Ben: I was a young idiot...

In ‘Highlander: The Search for Vengeance’, Colin the ‘immortal’s’ attachment to his lost lover drives him on a vengeful streak to stalk and kill her ‘immortal’ murderer… over the course of 2000 years. In the process, he fights in various wars of...

Johnnie To’s modern classic film ‘PTU’ (Police Tactical Unit) is a cops and gangsters flick. But it is not just another one. In it is featured one of the most realistic scenes in the genre yet. A cocky gangster and his gang enter a restaurant and throw their weight around a...

I watched the above movie (Blood Ties) to gather points on popular misconceptions on what happens after death, for delivering this Dharma talk: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/08/debunking-the-top-10-myths-of-the-7th-month As I kind of expected, there were many. Here they are - [1] Guanyin...

In the graphic novel version of ‘Kidnapped’ by Robert Louis Stevenson (adapted by Alan Grant, illustrated by Cam Kennedy), the protagonist gets… yes, kidnapped. For most of the story, he is portrayed as severely disturbed by having been betrayed by his only uncle. Even after...

Horror stories illustrate not how horrifying imaginary monsters can be, but how horrible real humans can be. - Stonepeace I have to admit I’ve not read Frankenstein before, till I chanced upon ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel’ (illustrated by Frazer Irving, scripted by...

As featured in ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’, through of human birth as brothers, Wolverine and Sabretooth were mutants with opposite inclinations. Wolverine was more slanted towards human-nature – in the humane way, while Sabretooth was more slanted towards animal-nature...

The film ‘Coming Soon’ explores what could be the real horror behind truly ‘horrible’ movies. That is, what if it’s all for real… since it seems so real? An actress accidentally killed on the set of a movie while acting as a vengeful spirit becomes a real...

The Quest for a ‘Quantum of Solace’ In ‘Quantum of Solace’, James Bond, the otherwise stereotyped one, runs amok somewhat. He loses his gentlemanly cool and ‘playboyishness’ quite a bit and makes out with only one girl, in a very brief scene. Yup, lots more...

Swindled by ‘The Black Swindler’? I have always wondered this – Why can’t filmmakers make their films to be as good as the trailers of their films? Once I saw an intriguing movie trailer. So entranced was I that I went to see the show. To my surprise, the trailer was...