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Movie review: The Hunger Games – Catching Fire (2013)
A good Friday ends with a great movie! What more can be better than that. Another film franchise based on novels that I love very much, just like how much I miss Harry Potter series. And similarly, I...
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Movie review: Captain Phillips (2013)
‘Captain Phillips’ is a 2013 action thriller film based on a historical incident in which a merchant mariner, Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean as part of...
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Movie review: The Monkey King (2014)
‘The Monkey King’ is one of the few Chinese New Year films from Hong Kong this year. The movie’s title is self explanatory that it is based on the highly popular Chinese literary classic named ‘Journey...
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Gilded Chopsticks; my review to this food-themed palace drama.
‘Gilded Chopsticks’ is a 2014 palace drama by Hong Kong’s TVB that starred Wong Cho Lam, Ben Wong, Nancy Wu, Joey Meng, Louis Cheung, etc. The 25-episodes series follows the adventures of a lazy but...
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Movie review: How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
This year is filled with great animation movies! First, we have ‘The Lego Movie’ of which many claimed had raised up a bar on the standard or quality of animated productions. Then, we have an...
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Movie review: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
There has been a lot of popular big-budget movies released recently that are expected to attract a lot of moviegoers (and these movies did so looking from their overwhelming box office performance...
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Movie review: Non-Stop (2014)
‘Non-Stop’ is a mystery-action film which revolves on an air marshal whom springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at...
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Movie review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Believe me…my father is more eager to watch this than me. Both me and my dad enjoyed the first one, 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes very much and it leaves a lasting impression to my father. My...
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Movie review: The Fault In Our Stars (2014)
Romance movie is usually not my cup of tea but I gave an exception to ‘The Fault In Our Stars’, a film released middle of the year and it is based on a novel of the same name. It’s certainly not a...
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Movie review: Divergent (2014)
‘Divergent’ is a science-fiction action film directed by Neil Burger and is based on the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth. The story takes place in adystopian post-apocalyptic version of Chicago...
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Movie review: Annabelle (2014)
Before ‘The Conjuring’, there was ‘Annabelle’. ‘Annabelle’ is a supernatural horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, produced by James Wan and written by Gary Dauberman that revolves on a doll that...
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Movie review: Interstellar (2014)
I guessed ‘Interstellar’ would be the last 2014 film I watched before I put my focus back on this year’s films. ‘Interstellar’ ended my 2014 movie reviews in high note as the movie is crazily good!...
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‘Captain of Destiny’, the best TVB series of the year so far.
‘Captain of Destiny’ (張保仔, literally as Cheung Po Tsai) is a 2015 Hong Kong historical fiction sci-fi television drama of 32 episodes by TVB. The drama is a retelling of the story of 19th century...
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Two movies (‘Spectre’ and ‘Goosebumps’) this long weekend, or possibly more.
The excitement over the current four-day long break in this weekend is erasing my sadness from losing quite a lot of money in rummy game last night with my family. I guess many would take a day of...
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TVB drama review for ‘Lord of Shanghai’ (2015).
‘Lord of Shanghai’ (梟雄) is a 2015 Hong Kong television pre-modern period drama by TVB, and it is the last of the four anniversary series marking the 48th birthday of the television station this year....
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TVB drama review: Presumed Accidents (2016)
‘Presumed Accidents’ (纯熟意外) is a 2016 Hong Kong drama by TVB that has its story centred on insurance investigation and fraud with several other side plots that make up for the whole series that...
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Review for TVB drama ‘House of Spirits’.
My eyes are teary now. Why is that so? I have just finished watching the final episode of a TVB drama called ‘House of Spirits’ and that finale was full of many very touching scenes. I also felt sad...
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TVB drama review: Dead Wrong (2016)
‘Dead Wrong’ (致命復活) is a Hong Kong television drama by TVB that revolves around Vincent, a man who was abducted and imprisoned on a deserted island in Vietnam for ten years. After being rescued, he...
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Movie review for ‘Spectral’, ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ and ‘Kubo and the...
This post would be my last movie reviews of the year. In the past week, I have watched three additional new films of which they are all released this year and I have some thoughts to write about each...
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‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ (2016) cross 1-billion mark, movie review for...
‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, the latest film in hugely successful Star Wars film franchise has recently grossed over US$ 1 billion in worldwide box office intake. This film that was released on...
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