This week is filled with events you don't wanna miss out on, from Japanese modern design to bossa nova, indie music at its best and hard dance to rock the beats in your heart!
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Don't panic! This month, we present an abridged guide to your rights as a Malaysian citizen. Are makeshift gated communities legal? Do you have any rights in a street demonstration? Well, go find out!
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Oscar season is upon us! Every year, there are always a couple of movies that leave me flabbergasted by how many Oscar nominations they receive. For 2010, one of those movies is Up In The Air. Read more
Amidst a sudden influx of apparently terrible Hong Kong martial arts movies primed towards the CNY-induced audience, this small Chinese war movie starring Jackie Chan and Wang Lee Hom stands out. Read more
Winning duo, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp return again to the silver screen with Alice in Wonderland, with a grown-up, 19-year-old wishy-washy Alice. As dreamy as she ever was, she wanders into Underland (known also as Wonderland) during a Victorian tea party by falling into the deep, dark rabbit hole. Read more
Giant mecha, angsty teens, Kabbalistic hokum, Engrish, fanservice ... one of the seminal works in the anime canon is being remade for the big screen -- but is it any good? Read more
George Clooney has teamed up with Jason Reitman, the Academy Award nominated director who brought us Thank You for Not Smoking and Juno, which won Best Screenplay. Clooney, who found fame as Dr Doug Ross in the hit TV drama ER, and later on starred in box office hits like Ocean's Eleven and directed the critically acclaimed Good Night, and Good Luck. Up in the Air is a film based on a novel of the same title by Walter Kirn. Read more
Nine, which features an ensemble cast with Hollywood's best and brightest, is directed by Rob Marshall, famed for Academy Award winning movie, Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha and Cabaret, just to name a few. Read more
Morgan Freeman stars as Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's account of the former South African president and his attempts to unite his country through rugby. Do Freeman and Eastwood succeed?
We've seen many post-apocalyptic movies over the years: some are good; some are good and original; most are pretty bad. Which of these 3 categories does The Book of Eli fall into? Read more
This year's February is not just a month of prosperity; it is also the month of love. This in mind, you may be considering Valentine’s Day (perhaps the most literal festive-tie-in movie title ever) for your Valentine’s outing. But is it worth watching? Read more
Ask me for my opinion about local movies and you will hear me curse loudly. It's not that I don't value patriotism, it's just that watching bad movies is a poor excuse for jingoistic pride – there, I've said it.
But was I impressed with Tiger Woohoo! Quite. Read more
