When Justin Ong returned to KL six years ago, he brought home with him degrees from Marquette University, Milwaukee and the New York Film Academy; hands-on experience from the wilds of LA (he worked on the set of Hollywood Squares) and a burning hunger to tell Asian stories from an Asian perspective.
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The Evangelion mythos gets relaunched as a series of four movies. The first one successfully manages to cause more city-wide damage than The Incredible Hulk.
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Posted on 26 June 2008Teasers and trailers established Wanted as a must-see summer blockbuster right from the start. Hello, from the previews alone, bullets defied the laws of physics to curve a shot and drifting became the new pullover to pick up passengers. However, the movie can only be enjoyable once you accept and overlook the ludicrous stunts that come in abundance during the movie's duration as possible within the movie’s realm. But while it might seem fake in almost every aspect, Wanted nonetheless is the sort of movie that keeps you on your toes, biting your nails with sudden yelps.
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Posted on 24 June 2008So a best friend takes his best friend for granted until she gets engaged, subsequently cueing him to fall in love with her a wee bit too late, forcing him to try to force her to not only call off the wedding, but marry him instead to much adverse effect along the way. Sound familiar? A little too much perhaps – we’d been there, done that, bought the now stale formula and the little Julia Roberts souvenirs.
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Posted on 24 June 2008As Cloverfield recently demonstrated, there is still life in making movies through the angle of a video camera, ala The Blairwitch Project. But where Cloverfield was a nausea-inducing exercise of shaky camera angles, crudely constructed conspiracy theory, and big-budget viral marketing, something more intimate and scary recently came out of Spain.
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