INFINITELY POLAR BEAR

Sufficient imb ranking, Ruffalo and Saldana acting
 REVIEW
 Not bad but nice and cute even when two green super heroes (one was in fact a villian) got married
Got the chance to view this finally at a hotel on netbook with headphones on. Quite short at about 1 1/2 hrs long. Both Ruffallo and Saldana had acted as Marvel characters before. But this story has got nothing to do with action and if not good acting it would have been a bomb. But it turned out to be good nice and cute as a family movie.
It was not mention often in he movie that Cam had Bi Polar. I think it was only once. And the way he was arguing with his 2 girls, we thought even the children inherit the father's illness. Loud and eccentric.
Initially in the first part of the film I thought they never gonna raise the mixed marriage issue which can be illogic particularly when this movie was happening in the 70's. Finally they did and it become more real. The eldest daughter was telling that she does not look that black like her younger sibling which is true. However, how the Cam's family accepted their marriage without any doubt from his parents to grandmother can be unebelievable especially this happened in the 70's. Not saying that everyone at that time were racists, but the openly wide acceptance is a bit far fetched.
I also dont think that a mother can leave thier daughters in the hand of a BiPolar father for 18 months to study far far away ! Surprisingly the arrangement continued when she accepted work in New York the place she studied MBA. The only difference, they could afford to pay for the children's education in a better school. But how they could afford to survive when the husband had no job and the mother studying, I dont really know.
Some routine where the bi polar father can leave the 2 young daughters alone in the apartment to go drinking is really uncalled for. And most of the time we never fail to see Cam smoking his day's away.
But anyway this was a good movie with a believable loving and caring family despite the hardship they went through; Good acting resulted it to be such.
First posting : 6Nov15

Meru

Unknown film with high imb ranking

REVIEWED
Finally saw this documentary movie as it was still kept in the archive as movie to see. In a way its like Everest where it is based on a true story. The big difference is that the footage of this movie is actually the real thing as it was taken by director/video grapher Danny Chin who was also one of the 3 guys to first reached Meru's top. Its a wonder how did they get the video so sharped and detail and "clean". I dont think there's any or much cheating when doing the footage as this film was one of the documentary film voted for best documentary in the recent Academy. Maybe its the GoPro movie camera costing over RM1k which could be the answer.
Well this film is good also for inspirational reason like Renan (?) who doctors diagnosed as may not be able to walk again after the ski boarding fatal accident on one of the snowy steep mountain. He defied the odds and end up at the top of Shark Fin of Meru.
Looking in wikipedia, Meru is not even on the top 100 of tallest peak in the world. Everest is about 29k feet while Meru at around 20k. Its the last 5,000ft thats challenging. Its challenge lies in its Shark's fin shape peak. True as they say, Climbing Everest  you have Sherpa's to help you and the path are already established and cleared but you dont have this perks for Meru. Even these guys have reached Everest 4 times even skiing down on occasion.
Remarkable documentary not only in its contents but how good it was captured.

First Posted : Nov 6, 2015

Movies coming soon

CONDEMNED2. Unknown main actor but we all know Eric Roberts. Made the ranking in imdb.

LOST IN THE SUN. Missed imdb ranking by 1.1 points. But Josh is back.. with a gun !

RIDE. Poor 5.9 imdb. But Hunt, Wilson (the other brother) and Thwaites (have heard of him somwhere) are here. Lets give this one a go.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

"Benji ! Open the door !"

"Desperate times requires desperate measures"

To be rerun again as the Blue Ray copy is out. You cant let a good movie down.

REVIEW 
Some say this is the best cinema's Mission Impossible Ethan Hunt's adventure. But some would say it still fell short of Ghost Protocol (the previous one). But it all depends on who's seeing it. Anyway, for Rogue Nation it is a great effort from the director who is also the writer of the film who also directed Edge of Tommorow and Jack Reacher who, as you may have guessed it, also stars Tom Cruise. Its no surprise on how the network works in Hollywood, isnt it ?
Now what about the film ?
You are thrilled all right from the start till the end. There is also the "Spy James Bond" movie type element which was the Opera scene which was non in other MI movies. And the motorbike chase scene was very scarry and looks real indeed. Not other action you know relying on CGIs. Well the producer Tom Cruise did those all by himself including the plane hanging, BMW car ride and the water scene. This is what commitment really means.
But for the thought, all IMFs (except Luther)  are of the same short height - Cruise, Pegg, Rainer including Ferguson too.
Aside from the action the strength also lies on how Teamwork can win the day. Dont forget friendship and loyalty especially Hunt and the team saving poor Benji who was kidnapped. How simple the thank from Ilsa to Hunt is also memorable as we dont know if Hunt is still married or not in this outing.
Some science fact you cant comprehend but thats what a movie is all about. One example was how Hunt can survive a 3 min no oxygen underwater. He could come out alive but brain damage in real life. But thats a movie is all about.
One thing for sure, you dont have to take MI movies seriously unlike current James Bond movie. Thats the fun and its edge.

The Gift

PreviewReview :
Why this movie ? well Jason Bateman is in it. Not much fan of Rebecca Hall unless she tone down her body a bit (little heavy in IronMan3) and Edgerton (heard but cant remember). Nevertheless, good reviews for this movie online. Hope it will not disappoint.
REVIEW
One joke before we start reviewing this movie. This is not a superhero movie despite having Bateman and Robynn in it ! (Got it ??)
Well to start with, kudos to Gordo in real life who is Joel Edgarton. He did not only act but also direct and wrote this film. And not many can do that. A few did it and get shitty in all departments.
Jason Bateman can act a serious role without imagining that he is actually a comedy based actor. Rebeca Hall, what can I say, she is tall, looks like Anne Hathaway and slimmer than in Iron Man 3, good for her.
But why jogging in the middle of the road (even when you are pregnant!). Must be no cars in the neighbourhood.
One good morale of the story is that when you grew up being a bully, you cant really believe what other people are saying because you lie all the time.
But who's the bad guy - Simon or Gordo or maybe both of them ? Simon we realised towards the end of the movie he's a bad guy and never stop being one especially when he falsified Danny just to get his promotion. But Gordo is really a sicko after all as he actually stalked Robynn from the footage in the video and with police record. But is he the father of Robyn's child, not a big deal for they can do a DNA test. There's no indication that he raped Robynn in the video. He did not admit to that anyway.
So "what comes around goes around" apply here.
The movie thought of going bad from the beginning but it picked up as we go along and Yes we got mystified after all.   

Upcoming movies

Chosed this because of the plot and concept thou low in IMDB ratings

Because of the actors Wilson, Bell and Brosnan. Slight miss the 7.0 imdb benchmark

Unknown but good ratings in IMDB. And its a comedy. Hard to find a good comedy these days.

Man from UNCLE

 PReview
Seen this at the cinema before the Blog was up. So will be reviewing it even before showing it.
REVIEW
Saw this movie at the cinema because of the main stars- Superman, Lone Ranger and ExMachinia. It also have good reviews from Youtube movie reviewers. Also this film was directed by Modanna's Ex (husband) who directed some notable films such as "Sherlock Holmes" (the downey jr one). But after watching it, begged to differ with the kind reviews - might have spend the time better at home watching it on TV (media player). The action and acting to me is good but not OK as I expected something more. After all it is a movie set in the 60's and perhaps the gadgetry is all inadequate. And also perhaps the story line is too simple - both in how it is told and what the story line is - about US and the Russia's cold war.
I was impressed with Mr Superman's not only ascent but his nasal sounding like Robert Vaughn in the TV series. But both of them are tall in contrast with thier shorties TV counter parts.
Everyone will have their opinion with this movie of course. But it was sad enough when it came out everyone said how good this is compared to Hitman 47. Even the storyline is similiar, so they are saying. But you cant go to both of these movies with the same intention in mind. Go to this one if you want good acting, fancy actors, intelligent dialogue and time at the cinema (its over 2 hours). Go to Hitman if you want shoot shoot bang bang thing.
See it and be your own judge.

Ricki and The Flash

 PReview
Meryl Streep is in this. So does Ricky Springfield. Most things where Ms Streep in it could possibly be good. Hope this one too. It may your typical Aged folk getting into rock thing. Well lets see.

Before We go

PReview
This movie was chosen for the reason non other than Captain America is in it. Alice Eve is also familiar but cant remember from where. Lets have a dose of romance for a change. As you can see, Chris Evans is again bearded in this one. He's following Keanu Reeves and they both acted together before in 1 movie i am trying to recall. Lets hope this does not disappoint.

REVIEW
Deciding to watch this movie is deciding to spend some time in something romantic, which i did. At the start of the the film indications were everywhere that this is a low budget film with unknown who cares director. The attraction to sit down to watch are the 2 lead actors. C Evans is of course our Captain America and Alice Eve (The brit chick) was in "Dirty Weekend" as the lesbian brunnete (i remember). But here she was still a brit but a blonde and slim down a bit.
Wont touch on how the story went but what I can say it is an impressive romantic story with 2 believable and possibly existant characters in real life. This could be a shoe string budget film. But one thing that draw my intention is how come Chris Evan's physique is so ordinary ? He did CA2 in 2014. But he definitely did not seem so here.
The plot is not your ordinary boy meets girl and fall in love and the end. Even the ending left too many questions as there could be a sequel to this one to come. But both Brooke and Nick love stories seem to be at the extreme (but could happen). Boy splitted with his ex GF for 6 years already but feeling is still there while Girl is not happily married and still love her jilted husband and wanted to give another chance.
And the most touching part is at the end at the pay phone where Nick confessed that he need Brooke more than she need him. How they parted at Grand Central Station was also not seem cheesy at all.
BTW one of the writer did won an oscar for Rain Man. But guess who was the director - non other than Captain America himself !
One of the best romantic movie i have seen.

Selected Upcoming Movies

Upcoming movies

Many new ones coming. Potentially good. Here are a list of em

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This post is just to show you our current "coming soon" logo. Its just that if this is not done, the "COMING" labels may be deleted when there is no posting of such nature. So just to safe guard its existence, thats all.