Paskalis Damar

LATEST ARTICLES ( 590 )

• 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

• Review Men in Black: International (2019)

  

  It took 7 years after the third installment of Men in Black for a sequel, which is more of a spin-off, to finally spawn—marking its 20th anniversary with Men... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019)

  

  Upon the release in 2015, The Secret Life of Pets introduced nothing particularly new. While heartwarming, the titular narrative is familiar and formulaic at... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Dark Phoenix (2019)

  

  It’s time to bid farewell to the X-Men saga we once knew since 2000. Surviving for almost two decades, the franchise has gone through ups (X-Men, X2, X-Men:... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Booksmart (2019)

  

  Olivia Wilde teams up the usual sidekicks Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever in Booksmart, an uplifting coming-of-age comedy with enough party, wit and... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Booksmart (2019)

  

  Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart observes the archetypal characters we usually neglect at some coming-of-age movie, treats them with real-human personalities and gives... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Single Part 2 (2019)

  

  After some non-radical genre exploration, including Hang Out (2016) and Target (2018), writer/director/actor/stand-up comedian, Raditya Dika surprisingly takes ... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES