Category: Movies

In the first ‘Gantz’ movie (see trailer below at around 46 seconds), a Vajrakumara (Dharma Protector guardian diety), a thousand…

In the movie ‘Priest’, the heroes are the denounced priests who go against the church, despite the repressive ones in…

Watching the TV version of ‘The Walking Dead’, I’m reminded again of why zombie flicks are important for humanity… really!…

Is an endangered species (vampires) that endangers another species (humans) justified? If vampires exist and are endangered, would humans strive…

Cris Johnson in ‘Next’ says: ‘Here is the thing about the future. Every time you look at, it changes, because…

While sharing on the movie ‘Inception’ at NTU Buddhist Society’s camp at Cheng Beng Buddhist Society’s building, I concluded by…

Some interesting dialogues from the movie ‘Nine Temples’: Poon: Why do you have to go on a pilgrimage? Aren’t you…

I left the cinema wondering exactly what that was all about. Maybe there was nothing exact about it, to be…

‘The Others’ present a taut horror story of the extremes of demonisation (without demonic ‘demons’). The protagonists, whose roles we…

A dialogue from the movie ‘Up In The Air’: Ryan: Kara mentioned that you were having some thoughts. Jim: I…

‘Independence Day’ re-screening on TV tonight reminds me of how simplistic the idea is, of being able to write a…

If you don’t like yourself, why don’t you change yourself? If you can change yourself, who is really your ‘self’?…

All good things come to an end, in departure and death. All good things come to an end, if they…

Different from the run-of-the-mill concept of there being a supreme and extreme good guy versus a supreme and extreme bad…

In ‘Aftershock’, a foster mother-to-be asks to ensure that the girl she wants to adopt really has no surviving family….

Empathy instead of disgust arises when one realises that another’s horrible behaviour, could have arisen from horrible suffering. – Stonepeace…

In ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, Johnny Depp plays a character who says this to a lady in her imaginary…

The best pithy one-liner on TV in a long time. Amanda tells Alex in Nikita: ‘Home is where you stop…

I went too see ‘The Last Exorcism’ because I thought the premise of the story was interesting. But it was…

More than ten years ago, I visited Buddha Kasetra School (佛陀园地: http://www.buddhakasetra.org). Based at Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Buddha…