Paskalis Damar

LATEST ARTICLES ( 590 )

• Mars Met Venus: Part Cowo (2017): A Chicken Noodle Parable at Best

  

  Review: In Mars Met Venus: Part Cowo, a boy and a girl in a relationship is analogized as water and oil that naturally cannot mix. However, both can somehow... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2017 CULTURE, MOVIES

• Berangkat! (2017): Thanks to the Magic Mushroom

  

  Review: In an era where injecting traveling utopia and road trip has been a popular formula in Indonesian film industry, Naya Anindita's Berangkat! pushes... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) – Review

  

  Review: After nearly two decades, Luc Besson finally materializes Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, a space adventure adapted from his childhood... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blindspot: Chariots of Fire (1981)

  

  "I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure," said Eric Liddell to his pious sister. Of God and men, of... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) – Review

  

  Let's start with a little excerpt of what has gone so far in Planet of the Apes reboot universe. As you might have known (in fact, you'll learn/re-learn about... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dunkirk (2017) – Review

  

  Review: In Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan reenacts a pivotal WWII moment dubbed as 'Operation Dynamo' a.k.a. 'Miracle of Dunkirk' as an epochal non-victorious,... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Doll 2 (2017): Clumsy Horror with a Chance of Bloodfest

  

  Review: What The Doll 2 excels in is the fact that it could, at some points, drive a guilt-ridden drama into a full-frontal horror with chance of bloodfest. It... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Mars Met Venus: Part Cewe (2017): Are Women from Real Venus?

  

  Review: In Mars Met Venus (divided into two interrelated parts: Part Cewe, the girl's version, and Part Cowo, the boy's version), gender differences are... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Baywatch (2017) – Review

  

  Review: Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron bulk the summer blockbuster up-with feast of abs, boobs, and sea-water-in all-new Baywatch. As another effort to revamp... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Filosofi Kopi 2 (2017): A Homecoming

  

  Review: Started up as a road film, where two titular celebrated hipsters' coffee shop, Filosofi Kopi, roams around cities and islands of Indonesia, yet... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) – Review

  

  Review: In establishing his own 'Sony' world, the all-new Spidey (Tom Holland) has to swing across Marvel Cinematic Universe, find a more established mentor in... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Okja (2017) – Review

  

  Review: Whoever thought that Netflix and its streaming-giant comrades are not part of 'future of the cinema' should watch Bong Joon-ho's ( Memories of Murders,... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• June 2017 – A Recap

  

  Summer blockbuster season has begun! Series of blockbusters have been released to market as baits to a lukewarm result. In Indonesia, the annual Eid al-Fitr... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: GLOW (2017) – Season 1

  

  Review: Netflix' GLOW is a splendid blend of many things-from campy female wrestling, satire to telly industry, feminism spirit and rage against racial... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 MOVIES

• Sweet 20 (2017): Ode to the Youth Not Wasted on the Young

  

  In the toughest time of her life, a fussy 70-year-old hag gets a second chance to compensate her lost youth and cheat aging when she is mysteriously... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Insya Allah Sah! (2017): Insha Allah Preachy

  

  Adapted from Achi MT's novel of the same title, Benni Setiawan's Insya Allah Sah! materializes as a religious rom-com, which almost immediately reminds me to... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Jailangkung (2017): Embodiment of Style-over-substance Horror

  

  Rizal Mantovani Jose Purnomo's sleeper hit Jelangkung (2001) was an integral part of Indonesian film resurrection. This harrowing story-about ancient ritual o... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blindspot: Rain Man (1988)

  

  Back to the days when Tom Cruise hasn't been that top-billed "film star", he was once an actor when portraying Charlie Babbitt, a selfish chap who, upon learnin... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: Fargo (2017) – Season 3

  

  Review: In first two seasons of Fargo­ -a powerhouse of anthology based on The Coen Brothers' 1996 film of the same title, Noah Hawley has proven his... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) – Review

  

  Review: Michael Bay's criticproof franchise returns with another Bayhem galore-a non-stop clink-clicketty-clank-bang-boom juggernaut slugfest-in what's dubbed a... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES