Category: Movies

22
Jun
2009

Educational ‘School Days with a Pig’

DHARMA@CINEMA: School Days with a Pig (Strictly by registration only) A movie screening and sharing by Shen Shi’an Based on…

18
Jun
2009

Drag All Out of Hell!

In ‘Drag Me to Hell’, a girl who was just living another day in relative paradise before she encounters an…

17
Jun
2009

How Should a Jedi Love?

Did you know that ‘Padme’ means ‘lotus’, as in ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’? Did you know that the Jedi Order…

16
Jun
2009

Terminators ‘R’ Us?

The Terminator saga, as most would know, is about the anthropomorphism and demonisation of high technology. It is a series…

08
Jun
2009

Demonisation of the Demonic

In the movie ‘Blood: The Last Vampire’, it was suggested to Saya (the half-vampire human) by her teacher that (vampirical)…

04
Jun
2009

Face Your Past for a Better Future

Haunted by ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ is about a fickle guy, who is so scrooge-ly with…

20
May
2009

From a Big Bad Wolf to ‘The Woodsman’

Walter, an ex-convict charged for pedophilia, experiences apprehensive uncertainty as he re-enters the society 12 years later. He is seemingly…

05
May
2009

Wolverine’s Bestial & Buddha Natures

As featured in ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’, through of human birth as brothers, Wolverine and Sabretooth were mutants with opposite inclinations….

30
Apr
2009

Penelope’s Piggy Plight

Shortly before the screening of ‘Handsome Suit’ this year was ‘Penelope’ last year – another real gem of a movie…

28
Apr
2009

The Woodsman Vs the Big Bad Wolf

This amazing movie is just 83 minutes long, but is nothing short of incredible. It is one of the few…

27
Apr
2009

Heartland ‘Attacked’ by Angels & Demons

The above billboard gives a hint of the heavy marketing for ‘Angels & Demons’, the prequel of ‘The DaVinci Code’…

27
Apr
2009

Lucid Living While Lucid Dreaming

In the plot of the movie ‘Ploy’, the characters seem to live their interconnected dreams as alternate but believable realities,…

14
Apr
2009

Do You Admit You Cheated If You Didn’t?

The Million Dollar Question… Q: How do you admit how you cheated if you did not? A: You don’t –…

13
Apr
2009

Are You a Maple Street Monster?

From ‘The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’ by Rod Serling (adapted by Mark Kneece), a mysterious…

13
Apr
2009

Fancy Being ’17 Again’?

In a sense, the movie ’17 Again’ is yet another version of ‘Groundhog Day’. A 37-year-old man gets to relive…

13
Apr
2009

How to Live Forever

In ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’, the first emperor of China (Qin Shihuang), after his conquest of the…

13
Apr
2009

Bittersweet ‘School Days with a Pig’?

< Movie poster for Singapore The award-winning movie ‘School Days with a Pig’ tells of a teacher’s special project for…

07
Apr
2009

Grow Up Children, Don’t You Suffer

You can change the side of the road that you walk down every day. Even if the road is the…

06
Apr
2009

The Faceless Force of Karma

In the ‘Final Destination’ thrillogy (pun intended), you see ‘creative’ ways through which death creeps up gradually yet surely upon…

04
Apr
2009

Is the World Broken into Pieces?

The only dialogues I found interesting in ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’ are as below. I wished there was an…