Movie Review: El Orfanato (The Orphanage)

One of the best horror movies I’ve seen in years. The Orphanage is an underdog Spanish movie which provides a very fresh change to the endless cheesy American horror flicks that’s been hoarding the theaters recently. The movie revolves around Laura (Belén Rueda) who buys the orphanage she grew up in and moves in with [...]

Movie Review: The Spiderwick Chronicles

Based on a series of children’s books of the same name, The Spiderwick Chronicles is a visual treat. The movie, which relied heavily on the special effects is a sensory overload for both the young and old. However, plot wise, it failed to deliver the ‘edge of your seat’ feeling one would expect from a [...]

Movie Review: Enchanted

What happens when Disney’s fairytale world collides with our world? Enchanted happens. Part animation, this movie is about a singing fairytale Princess Giselle (Amy Adams), banished from her fairytale land to modern day New York City by her evil mother-in-law, Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) who’s afraid to lose her crown to Giselle, who was about [...]

Movie Review: Stardust

With the Christmas season around the corner, fantasy movies with magical themes are crowding the movie scene. Stardust is one of the fantasy movies with extravagant sets, lavish costumes, mind blowing special effects and big Hollywood names.
Set in the Olden Times, it is a story about a young man, Tristan (Charlie Cox) and his journey [...]

Movie Review: The Nanny Diaries

The Nanny Diaries is a lighthearted comedy/drama adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same title. It stars Scarlett Johansson as Annie Braddock aka, The Nanny, Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti as Mr & Mrs X respectively, Nicholas Art as Grayer, the X’s stubborn six-year old offspring, Alicia Keys as Lynette, Annie’s best friend and [...]

Movie Review: Resident Evil: Extinction

The third and latest installment of the Resident Evil series is jammed pack with zombies, guns and legs (Milla Jovovich’s, for that matter). One of the first few video games to be made into a movie series, Resident Evil: Extinction picks up where Apocalypse left off. After the T virus destroyed Raccoon City, survivors are [...]

Movie Review: 1408

Horror story maestro Stephen King has done it again with his haunted hotel short story, 1408. King has a slight obsession with hotels which are haunted, doesn’t he? The movie, although running only about an hour and half, seemed longer than it actually was but was a far cry from ‘boring-ville’. Cries, for that matter [...]

Movie Review: No Reservations

Marketed as a chick flick and/or date movie, No Reservations surprisingly served more on its plate than the menu had promised. A remake of the 2001 German film, Mostly Martha, the 2007 take of this delectable movie follows the life of strong headed, top-notch chef, Kate Armstrong (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones) as she works her [...]

Movie Review: Ratatouille

Disney cartoons have certainly gone a long way since their humble beginnings with Mickey’s Steamboat, now cartoons are bigger than ever with the help of computer animation. Walt Disney and Pixar’s new animated film Ratatouille gave a new ‘perspective’ of life in the romantic city of Paris where food, wine (and maybe rats – one [...]

Movie Review: Hairspray

 
After much persuasion from Chau, Will and Dan (who paid for my movie ticket), I finally decided to catch Hairspray with them. The main reason why I didn’t want to catch it is because it’s a MUSICAL.
MUSICAL…. where the actors break into a song and dance sequence halfway through a sentence and IT’S PERFECTLY ALRIGHT [...]