After promising myself not to buy CD’s for the rest of the year after the great Singapore binge-shopping debacle, I still went out and bought a handful of CD’s last Thursday. One of them being Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye. It was a cool and suave record, something I can see myself [...]
I had a couple of choices last night, but they run contrary to my plans of staying at home. Hahaha. Actually, there’s more than a handful of records that I wanted to listen to, plus I also wanted to catch the film that I had just finished downloading before hitting the bed early on a [...]
Actually, probably not. But I reckon, it does come close.
Got to watch U2 3D last Thursday, and in a word, it was mind-blowing. The opening shot of the stage in Buenos Aires with the band yet to even take the stage already conveys enough enchantment, and that was all it took to tell me that [...]
I’ve known Z for close to 11 years, but it’s only recently that I found out that she and I more or less share the same taste in film. She let me borrow her copy of Homerun (跑吧孩子) and Voces Inocentes, while I gamely lent her my copy of Tulad ng Dati, Paris Je T’aime, [...]
While on the way home from work earlier this afternoon, I heard Wonderful by Adam Ant on the radio.
To me, this song will forever be lumped together with Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye and Hum’s Stars. It’s almost automatic. Not only did they all come out during the same year (’95 alternative rocks!), but they [...]
Just finished watching The Orphanage, which is marketed as ‘from Guillermo del Toro, the guy that brought you Pan’s Labyrinth‘.
I didn’t think it’d be at par with Asian cinematic horror masterpieces, but it was. It has it’s fair share of jump at you suspense sequences, which after the initial shock value, leads to my [...]
I was at Tagaytay for most of today and yesterday attempting to make my way through Bad Education by Pedro Almodovar. It was an ok film, with Gael Garcia Bernal starring as a transvestite, something I wouldn’t have pictured him doing after seeing Y Tu Mama Tambien and The Science of Sleep. But I guess [...]
Sundays are as most Sundays go, and as usual, this one was spent devouring movies. I had the privilege to see two films today, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and The Squid and the Whale.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is based on the real life story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was left paralyzed [...]
Contrary to my plans as outlined in my last post, I didn’t get to finish There Will Be Blood. Even amidst strong recommendations from friends, the fact that my copy of the film came straight from enterprising pirates possessing camcorders made me realize that, to hell with it. I’ll just wait for a better copy. [...]
I downed two films last night, No Country For Old Men and Tulad ng Dati. I also managed to finish about 30 minutes of There Will Be Blood before finally dozing off in my lounge chair at past 3 in the morning.
I didn’t really like No Country. The first one-fourth of the movie was slow-paced. [...]
