REGRESSION

 

REVIEWED
The title of the film is a term in Psychology. Knowing it will spoil you as you can pretty guess how the film going to end. This film is based on actual events. So what happened in the film could had happened.

Ethan Hawke being a policeman gave a good performance as the confused cop. Emma Watson actually played somebody younger than her age and was convincing as a out of town gal. I wish her screen time could be longer so that her character can be revealed more. Which can be more interesting. Instead it concentrated more on Bruce (EH's) more.

Cant figure out what the film going to be - a police or a horror movie ? In the end I was not satisfied of getting both. The film is not that bad but I hope it could have been better. Like some movies by the time the movie ends, I learned one or two things about Psychology. Bravo ! To me, the film did not have a proper closure just leaving us to end it ourselves.

About the set, the film supposed to happen in 1990. But why are the cars seen looks like the 70's ? Then dont tell me in the 90's nobody is using hand phones yet ?

MACBETH

 

REVIEWED
        Cant believe that I finally finished this movie. Tried it earlier with a WEBRip copy. Got lost as the accent is so thick (supposed to be Scottish) and they spoke in Classical English. I suppose the dialogue is straight from Shakespeare's play and they were supposed to be acting on stage and the audience are all those who liked or are taking Macbeth as their exam paper. But its not, as I am just a movie fan who wanted to enjoy watching a film and learn about Macbeth's character the easy way. But i dont have the privilege to do that it seem. Thanks for the blue ray's subtitles, yet it still got me lost most of the time.

Thanks to the short sypnosis from "Uncle Eddie" on Macbeth in "Criminal Activities". He explained it short and simple why Macbeth was bold and fearless cause he cannot die if to be killed by a man from a woman's womb. Yup stumbled upon the lines that mentioned about Woman's womb. But if without that useful spoiler I could have taken Macbeth as bold, stupid and fearless King who finally got killed by McDuff played by Solomon Kane of MI6.

The acting by Fassbender, Coulthard and Harris were all good. But who want to care less when you have some much problem in watching a movie.

It is unnecessary to do this movie to the way it did. You dont have to use Shakespears' English if it is not for exam students. You see, there are plenty of movies which use simple and maybe American English and it attract a lot of people to see and appreciate the movie. A close example was Braveheart. Many of Ridley Scotts film are also in this category example Robin Hood and Kingdom of Heaven. Alas, some films are even talked in English where else you know they should be speaking in other language. But its ok for audience.

The scenes of the Scotland's mountain is breath taking thou. Not much action thou I was hoping it to be more to comprimise the other things.

See this if you are taking "Macbeth" as your exam paper.

CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

REVIEWED
Chose and saw this movie because John Travolta in it. Is he any good doing this film as like a few others he had been in. Bad movies or simply bad acting ? Well this is for a surprise. JT is not over the top and this movie is not a letdown !

I know the director (the bald short side kick of Eddie) when he was playing side kicks in TV movies. He did some movie too notable one was Watchmen. Other than that dont know how his directorial debut is. Well thats the chance with time I have to take.

The film also has TV actors too 

Now lets talk about the film.. no spoilers
This is what I considered a smart film. It has twist and turns when you thought you are seeing something that's been shown over and over again. The turns was whose who actually are in the film and what the plot really was. Who got hit and whos the hitter. The turns when you are revealed who are the real character and not what you are seeing 4/5 into the movie.  In the the end its all about getting even big time for the lost dignity when you were in school.

Good movie worth watching. JT is not bad also. No eccentric stuff and over the top acting when it starts to irritate you. He looks he is been cured from botox or steroid intake.

Well 5.8 ratings by IMDB ? Really ????

Legends Of Tommorrow Pilot S01E01

Who are we fighting ? Avengers ?

 

Marvel’s Captain America: 75 Heroic Years

Avengers, keep our position. Dont let DC defeat us.

 

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow S01 Special: Their Time Is Now

The battle for Superhero Supremacy between Marvel and DC had begun. Coming to the TV soon.

OUR BRAND IS CRISIS

REVIEWED
This movie stars both Sandra Bullock and ex AJolie Billy Bob Thorton. But I guess it never made the awards radar of 2015. No mention of the film or actors either. Produced by Bullock and Clooney who worked together in Gravity. Andy Mackie and also that Clear and Present Danger's hispanic crook is in this one too.

The plot is nothing new. But this time its Bolivia presidential race where Jane (SB's character) is hired to win an underdog. She took it because the opponent strategies played by BBT's character was her former adversary who had betrayed her.

The acting was effective typical Bullock, Thorton and Mackie. Thou its branded as a comedy, its not the entire film only on some parts. But who cares as "The Martian" was after all called a comedy by Globe Awards. ha ha.

As usual its good to see how a strategiest worked out a candidate which can work if applied in real life on real candidates.

But the movie did not want the audience to leave their seats with that feel good feeling which they could but didnt. Instead the film was left hanging with some bitter feelings to the audience too. Especially when you know that in real life what happened in the film can happen for real.

TRUTH

 

REVIEWED
This is one film I wont miss as it is a true story and about journalist's courage and integrity. The other movie for 2015 of this kind was Spotlight which after all receive the Spotlight. But not this one even with its many known actors. In the end I might draw my own conclusion as to why that came about.

Seem that this movie escaped the recent Globe Awards radar. No mentioned at all. Thou i havent seen Cate Blanchette performance in Carol which she was nominated as best actress, but I've her here. She's good as always. Not good enough to be nominated ? Thats another question.

Ok here are the array of stars in Truth - Blanchette, Redford, Topher Grace, Quaid, Keach, Greenwood, Mulroney and others. Even that guy who was at the HQ control in Pacific Rim, I thought I saw in this movie.

After you see this movie you tend to relate to what is going on in the real world not only is US but in our country. How the truth is manipulated to become a conspirancy and in the end the brave Journalists are the ones who got kicked in the Ass. Worst for the TV network CBS in this one. A few top executives were asked to resigned, all in the team even the Executive Director (Mary played by CB) got fired and the anchor man (Dan Rather played by Redford) got demoted. In the process it showed that covering the US President's ass is more important than the truth. It is for the record that if the story was aired before the presidential election, Al Gore would have become president because this showed how Bush cheated to be in the National Guard. Then we may not have 911 and Iraq would probably still be under Sadam. The world might be a better place (or a worser kind ?). Mary's personal problem resulted that didnt happen.

There's one acronym that the team shared which was FEA. I thought it was Fear (without the r) but its something else. Click here to know what it is

Its a very good truthful movie that happened in our past that we may know of and would have changed the world if things work the other way round. Sadly we dont have any of these kind of guys here.

MOONWALKERS

PreREVIEW
Its a movie of the 60's with Pearlman and the kid from Harry Potter (now grown up of course). Watching it 1/2 hour and its funny !
REVIEWED
This movie is funny all right, British Fashion way. But equally impressive is the gun and fist fights scenes. Its brutal and really gory. But if you have appetite for both, this film is for you. After all its a British film thou the main character Kidman played by Ron Perlman is American.

Ron Perlman when he is acting serious can scare the hell of people he is interacting with.

As the plot is quite simple it tried to stretch it further (thou its only about 1 1/2 hrs long) with scenes when people are high on drugs and acids. In the 60's this I presume is something normal and big.

What if the story actually happened ? It might as moon landing conspiracy still exist even to this day. This is another take on how the landing could  fail and what the back up plan would be. Doing it in England could be the right choice in order to remain secret.   

This to me is a good comedy. But without the equally impressive action scenes, you may not enjoy it as much. 

THE BENEFACTOR

PreREVIEW
Mr Gere in this and so does Dakota Fanning. Good review.
REVIEWED
This movie is hard to categorized especially while watching it. It can become a dark film where it involve murder or even a ghost movie.. but it aint. Surely you can digest some life experiences from it. The message that it is hard to carry the truth when you are guilty that it happened and that you cant make it right except to move on. But without telling it out you just know you cant and it will eat you from the inside. And for you to cope it day by day you take something to let you to forget it. Maybe you can but its still buried in you. So thats what happen to Franny the character played by RG.

But by the end of the movie you realized that the director had utilized on RG's look. For me, at start of the film you thought that he was having a bad hair day and hope that it wont carry on through out the film. Then he looks like those 60's hippies before trimming his hair whilst keeping his facial hair. But then by the end of the film, he was having a clean shave so as not to be RG's regular identity on film these days - scruffy Gere.

Its a moving film where you wonder if you are in his shoe can you live with yourself ?  But he on the other hand kept on hiding what he'd been through and not only that tried to relived it this time with the daughter of his best friend and her husband.

The ending could have gone any way but its the right ending after all.

See it for the life experiences. 

SUCKER

 

REVIEWED
This is an Australian movie I reckon produced by its chinese community. Dont worry when they speak chinese in some parts as the subtitles sufficed.

Saw this movie without any expectations and it didnt be as comedic as I hoped for but didnt totally fail as it did entertained.

Its a con movie or as they say in the movie a "professional lies" movie. Like a few other movies of this kind it shows how this team comprise of father, daughter(?) and chinese friend protege went from town to town conning people before reaching the ultimate con on a poker table. It shows how they sustain as conning is their jobs. And if you want to know a few tricks for you to create your own con job, you could really apply the con from this movie. I think it can work ! I am sure some con artist could use some of the tricks for their own benefit. You never know that con artists use some of the tricks like they did in this movie. Some require team work and risk that anything can go wrong. But all for all you need practice, then perfect the con, master them then repeat them.

The Chess trick at the beginning of the movie is brilliant where the Professor played with 10 people at the same time and won on the average. But the thing is, he was never good at chess its just that his strategy that was brilliant. But still I beg to differ if it can actually be done unless the opponent actually move according to what the other opponent did. You got to see this to understand.

The movie is not a let down but dont expect movie with exaggerate slapstick for it have not. Watching it you want to find out what will happen in the end.. and that is a formula of  a good movie.

KNIGHT OF CUPS

 

PreREVIEW
Not bad IMDB ratings at 6.7 but Christian Bale and Cate Blanchette in this one !

PrePreREVIEW
Is it good or bad that it got deleted by the server ?

Started seeing it thinking its a normal film with 1st class acting of Bale and Blanchette. But I got a big surprise as I went to 15mins of the movie. How come ?

Its an abtract movie .. literally accurate. It didnt make any sense to me like some video maker joining various short clips to make longer ones with Christian Bale in it. Then some background narration that are poetic and abstract that dont go at all with what you are seeing. Anyway, the clips are nice if there is some short of video clips competition, these are top notch and will win it. But giving me the headache as what I hoped for is a descent flowing movie.
So its on hold right now will try to continue it again when I am in the mood. If not then ditch it for sure.

Supergirl

WTF, We have been deleted ?? Not the series but the file. Thank god !

The Openloadco file has already been deleted !So we provide the download unrar version above.
REVIEW
In this episode see how Kara (SG) got away from being accused as being Supergirl from her boss. She got a new aliance in the process. 

THE BIG SHORT

Seen and to be reviewed very soon
REVIEWED
This is one of my movie of 2015. Not in the top 10 because like others which are not in it, it dont have special effects and actions. It is good in its scripts and acting. Why not as the heavy weights were in it - Bale, Gosling, Pit and Carrel. All give fantastic performance. Dont expect much from Pit as his part is not as big as the other 3. But since his company "Plan B"  produced this movie so he is in it.
I like this movie because its about trading. Not trading forex which is my forte, not even the stock market but the loans and mortgage. Being what happened is true it makes the watching more interesting.
Good movie and style as I like it. Some say (I wont name who) they should not put the narration by Gosling in the movie as it makes it weird and irritating. For me it become more interesting and unique !
Guess the movie manage to make itself interesting even if the subject of trading is boring to those who dont.
Thumbs up.

The Profit Ep16

P/s Some producers are on the look out for pirated copies of thier TV program over the internet. One of it is this program. So we provide an alternative site to download. Too bad its in french. Just click on the text in the red box.

The Profit Ep13

Where's Marcus ?

The link has been replaced as of date of this updated blogpost. However, the website is in French. Click on the text link in the red box and you are there.

REVIEW
In this episode there are 2 business Marcus tried to participate. The 1st one did not happen as the operator J Wolf (not even an owner) could not part with control of his business due to ego and pride. Whilst the 2nd one Betty agreed even to the point of closing an outlet. For this one, never saw Marcus got pissed off with a partner before. Good business learned.

LA SLASHER

PreREVIEW
Why this ?
Good rating on IMDB at 7.0. Its both classified as horror and comedy. So something must be right here.

JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS

PreREVIEW
Why choose this movie ?
Well this one got a 3.2 rating on IMDB and heard that it had to be taken out from screening at the cinemas because of its massive losses. Well see and be a judge of it.