Paskalis Damar

LATEST ARTICLES ( 581 )

• Review: Ready Or Not (2019)

  

  Samara Weaving stars in a wedding night thriller, Ready or Not, which jokingly plays out an anti-marriage message. Helmed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)

  

  Midway through the movie, Leonardo diCaprio’s character, Rick Dalton, would tell his co-star the synopsis of a pulp Western novel he reads. Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: EXIT / 엑시트 / Eksiteu (2019)

  

  In his directorial debut, Lee Sang-geun builds a solid survival actioner on the foundations laid by classic action flicks like The Towering Inferno, Die Hard an... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Weathering with You / 天気の子 / Tenki No Ko (2019)

  

  Reverberating the idyllic fantasy romance of Your Name that transcends time and space, Makoto Shinkai crafts another coming-of-age romance. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Perburuan (2019)

  

  The story of Perburuan spawns during the moment of captivity. Pramoedya Ananta Toer silently and secretly wrote the manuscript in his dark, damp cell during... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Bumi Manusia (2019)

  

  Bumi Manusia a.k.a. This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer with other titles dubbed as Buru Quartet has long been sanctified as one of the most importan... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: The Divine Fury (2019)

  

  Midnight Runners‘ director, Kim Joo-hwan returns with a new blockbuster that reunites him with the Runners’ star, Park Seo-joon. Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)

  

  In the first fifteen minutes of Dora and the Lost City of Gold, the titular character will remind audiences of how odd the original cartoon could be —from the... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

  

  Guillermo del Toro writes and produces a horror story based on Alan Schwartz’s children horror potpourri, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, catering his own... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Bridezilla (2019)

  

  Initially released as an online podcast drama, Bridezilla expands into a full-fledged rom-com written by Lucky Kuswandi (Selamat Pagi, Malam!, Galih Ratna) an... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

  

  Fast Furious evolves like no other franchises. Starting up as a night-racing blockbuster, the carsploitation saga expands into the epitome of over-the-top... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Ma (2019)

  

  Octavia Spencer portrays a mysterious, middle-aged woman who seems to be battling loneliness in Ma, a social thriller by Tate Taylor, the director of The Help—i... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

  

  In 2019 alone, documentary director, Joe Berlinger—whose passion has always been true crime documentaries and Metallica documentaries—has spawned two works... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Stuber (2019)

  

  Basically there are two different stories with two different genres happening in Michael Dowse’s new movie, Stuber, written by Tripper Clancy. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Child’s Play (2019)

  

  Acknowledge it that the classic Child’s Play story about a doll possessed by an evil spirit brought in life by voodoo spell is a thirty-year-old horror... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review The Lion King (2019)

  

  Jon Favreau’s photo-realistic remake of Disney Renaissance’s magnum opus, The Lion King, is best described as being nonurgent. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Dua Garis Biru (2019)

  

  Instead of condemning premarital sex and/or the lack of sex education among teenagers, Gina S. Noer’s directorial debut, Dua Garis Biru (trans. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Crawl (2019)

  

  When it comes to blood-gushing, nerve-breaking B-movie horror-thriller, “Splat Pack” member, Alexandre Aja has quite a reputation for making the most memorable... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review The Hustle (2019)

  

  In this gender-swapped remake of Frank Oz’ buddy-con comedy, Dirty Little Scoundrels (which was also a remake of the older version, Bedtime Stories), two women... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

  

  A lot of things happened in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the last two year. There was the Snap in Avengers: Infinity War that dusted half of the humanity;... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES