badlands (1973). directed by terrence malick.

watching movies is a luxury to me nowadays. with work and everything in between i have not been able to catch up with anything good. i managed to watch this last week, and it is always a pleasure to watch terrence malick telling a story of psychopaths. who is the psychopath here - sweet, naive holly who didn't blink an eye when her murderous boyfriend kit kills her father and pretty much everyone they ran into. based on the real case of charles starkweather and his girlfriend caril ann fugate murder spree in 1958, this story is a canvas of isolation and alienation, where nothing matters and the characters is hardly human save for the human mask that they have on their faces. 

enduring love (2004). directed by roger michell.

what makes and breaks a relationship? can two people hold on to each other despite the persistence of a third party who just won't budged? i like the acting and the seamless direction, and this movie always reminds me of how good daniel craig can be, and that his 2011 movies were a fluke that can not be explained.  

adnan sempit 2 (2012). directed by ismail bob hashim.

what a waste of money, people and time. my girlfriend wanted to watch this movie and it wasn't long when she whispered to me that we should go home. we persisted till the movie ended, but i couldn't understand any part of it. it wasn't funny, there is no plot, just patches of slide show put together for the sake of...whatever. this movie shouldn't be made.

bunohan (2011). directed by dain said.

i never thought i would see the day in which malay movies can a top up a bit of glory like it did in the days of p. ramlee in the 1950s and 1960s. there were promises by yasmin ahmad, though her films are artsy by conventional standards.  by the time i finished watching bunohan, i went, wow that was mind blowing, my disbelief tripled by the time i realized that this is a malaysian production. i loved the direction, the colours and moody cinematography, the fact that the actors trained to speak kelantanese for 2 months (effort people, effort! because it shows!), the melancholy of king lear's tale of a father and his three sons, the poverty of kelantan, the passing of tradition that can not stand the test of time.

great work from dain said. i will definitely look out for his movies in the future.

this means war (2012). directed by mcg.

another mcg crap. if not for the occasional laughs, and tom hardy, whom i thought must need money very badly else he wouldn't need to appear in this...well. anyhow, anything that involves two hot men chasing after reese witherspoon is not a good movie. leave your brain outside, and you shall enjoy this. 

the grey (2012). directed by joe carnahan.

for a movie that involved animals and people stranded in the cold, liam neeson held his ground and the movie is actually more interesting than your average men vs wild fare.