Paskalis Damar
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Movie reviews, talks, and discussion by Paskalis Damar.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 576 )
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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 -
Review Anna (2019)
Even after the rape allegations against Luc Besson, the French director still has the guts to prolong his long list of femme fatale flicks, now with... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review Yesterday (2019)
Richard Curtis is back with another love story set in a bizarre world—a premise he adeptly develops in About Time, a rom-com set where the male heirs of Bill... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review Parasite (2019)
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho’s homecoming to Korean cinema following his respective international tenures, Snowpiercer and Okja, is a brilliantly crafted cinema... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Annabelle is indeed the anomaly of The Conjuring universe based on the fictionalized life of paranormal couple, The Warrens. After making a harrowing debut... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review Toy Story 4 (2019)
After the nearly perfect closure Toy Story 3 (which scored a Best Picture nomination) back in 2010, John Lasseter (first two Toy Story movies, A Bug’s Life, Car... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES