Paskalis Damar

LATEST ARTICLES ( 582 )

• 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

• Review Single Part 2 (2019)

  

  Raditya Dika finds a better rhythm and theme—for the follow-up of his ‘single’ tour de force—that works warmly even when the symptoms of theme’s fatigue become... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Ghost Writer (2019)

  

  First and most importantly, Ghost Writer saves up an enticing what-if premise: what if there’s an actual ghost writing as a ghost writer for famous writer? Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Ghost Writer (2019)

  

  Fresh narrative idea and fabulous casts bring warmth to Ghost Writer, an upraising horror-comedy about a non-literal yet literal ghost writer, that will... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Si Doel the Movie 2 (2019)

  

  Si Doel the Movie 2 hits the nostalgia button even harder this time even when the narrative keeps slowly lollygagging with the titular character’s infamous... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Si Doel the Movie 2 (2019)

  

  When Si Doel the Movie arrived in 2018, it hit the nostalgia button hard—knitting all the characters left (and the cast members who survive the 14-year gap)... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Hit & Run (2019)

  

  Hit Run is a tonal mess-partly embracing the heyday of Hong Kong cop movies, partly grasping post-Raid actioners and mostly channeling its oddball... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Hit & Run (2019)

  

  Observing from Ody C. Harahap’s recent directorial gigs, it seems apparent that he keeps expanding his directorial portfolio with wider genre exploration. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Review Always Be My Maybe (2019)

  

  Just when we thought that rom-com is dying, the rom-com revivalist pseudo-movement resurgences. With fresh rom-coms in the recent memory like The Big Sick... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES