May 28, 2017
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* For reasons I have not yet figured out, this movie is called Dead Men Tell No Tales in the US but over here in Malaysia, they’ve gone with Salazar’s Revenge. While I like the sound of Dead Men Tell … Continue reading
May 7, 2017
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Saw Teong Hin’s latest, Hai-Kinn Sin-Loo 海墘新路, is Malaysia’s first Hokkien movie. It goes by the English title of You Mean the World to Me, although the Hokkien title actually refers to Penang’s Victoria Street. (I prefer the Hokkien title.) HKSL … Continue reading
April 14, 2017
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Risen is a 2016 film starring Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton that tells the story of a fictional Roman tribune, Clavius, who is tasked with finding the body of Jesus after it has apparently been taken from the tomb.
April 9, 2017
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Disney made a live-action version of one of its best-loved animated features, put Bill Condon at the helm and Emma Watson in the starring role. (It’s not the first live-action remake – there was The Jungle Book and even much … Continue reading
December 17, 2016
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The Rebel Alliance sends criminal Jyn Erso with an intelligence officer, Cassian Andor, to retrieve an Imperial defector who’s being held by an extremist named Saw Gerrera. Not coincidentally, Saw raise Jyn after her father, Galen Erso, was forced to … Continue reading
November 27, 2016
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Moana of Motonui has a mission: find the demigod Maui and make him return the glowing green stone that is the “heart” of the goddess Te Fiti in order to stem the growing “darkness” that’s encroaching on her home island.
November 21, 2016
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J.K. Rowling continues to expand her Harry Potter universe through the eyes of Newt Scamander, magizoologist and writer of the book “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” It is the 1920s and magical America is in a state of … Continue reading
November 3, 2016
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Doctor Stephen Strange is a brilliant but arrogant neurosurgeon who loses the use of his hands in a car accident. Bereft of his life’s purpose, he spirals into a near-manic obsession with trying to fix the nerves in his once-steady … Continue reading
