Paskalis Damar

LATEST ARTICLES ( 590 )

• A Season With: American Gods (2017) – Season 1

  

  Review: In adapting Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Bryan Fuller ( Hannibal) and Michael Green ( Logan), take Gaiman's vision-for a divine story about immigrants... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 47 Meters Down (2017) – Review

  

  Review: Johannes Roberts ( The Other Side of the Door) uses his penchant to horror to create sharky open-water terror with a premise similar to Jaume... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: The Handmaid’s Tale (2017) – Season 1

  

  Review: In Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale, the near-future world is depicted as a real horror show, especially for women. A... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Mummy (2017) – Review

  

  First, Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy has nothing to do with Stephen Sommers' 1999 Brendan Fraser-fueled blockbuster of the same title; let alone Karl Freund's 1932... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Mantan (2017): A Reconciliation Game

  

  Svetlana Dea's directorial debut, Mantan (trans. ex-lover) is quite an oddball. It's a dialogue-heavy romcom, which grounds between a social satire and a pure... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wonder Woman (2017) – Review

  

  Review: At one point, we might see Wonder Woman as the real biggest gamble ever in recent superhero film spree. There are myriads of dire reasons that made... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• May 2017 – A Recap

  

  I did not anticipate that May was gonna be a quite busy month, but I managed to watch all the biggest spotlights of the month. For my cinematic experience, May... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blindspot: Dances with Wolves (1990)

  

  "My name is Dances with Wolves. I have nothing to say to you. You are not worth talking to," said John Dunbar. By today's standard, Kevin Costner's Dances with... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ziarah (2017): Between Discourse and Pilgrimage

  

  Review: BW Purba Negara's debut feature could've been made into a faux-documentary about love and reconciliation, tailing fictitious Mbah Sri (Ponco Sutiyem),... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Lost City of Z (2017) – Review

  

  Review: In terms of visualizing a grandeur story about ambition, passion and destiny, James Gray's The Lost City of Z might make handful of resemblance with Pau... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (2017) – Review

  

  For the fifth installment (a.k.a. another comeback), Pirates of the Caribbean franchise decided to use a more narrative-friendly Salazar's Revenge title over th... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2017) – Season 3

  

  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt returns elegantly in aftermath of the second season's ultimate cliffhanger and sees our titular powerhouse, Kimberly 'Kimmy' Schmidt... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: Dear White People (2017) – Season 1

  

  Taking full resilient force from Justin Simien's 2014 indie-hit, , Netflix's Dear White People reuses the same force to launch this 10-episode of witty comedy... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

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

  

  Review: For starter, Riverdale "borrows" super-likable characters from your childhood Archie comics - from red-haired jock-musician wannabe, Archie Andrews (KJ... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Critical Eleven (2017): An Anti-Romance Romance Film

  

  With a title referring to an aviation term, critical eleven - three minutes after taking off and eight minutes before landing, where a plane is at the highest... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Alien: Covenant (2017) – Review

  

  Intriguing how Alien: Covenant opens with a birth, a genesis, in a majestic all-white background contrasts with the franchise' primal return to its origin.... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Thursday Movie Pick #19: Deserts

  

  Welcome back to Thursday Movie Picks by Wandering through the Shelves! According to the theme of the week, we pick and share three to five movies are with the... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) – Review

  

  Guy Ritchie injects gallons of his mayhem-infused blockbuster niches to the chivalrous tale of King Arthur and makes this 'origin story' an electric... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Free Fire (2017) – Review

  

  Ben Wheatley's Free Fire knows no cease fire in narrating a full-frontal arms deal gone awry chaos. With ten characters introduced upfront, initially dispersed... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Silent Voice / 聲の形 / Koe No Katachi (2017) – Review

  

  In its 130-min duration, Koe no Katachi a.k.a. A Silent Voice tackles a complex coming-of-age drama of consequences, self-alienation and reconciliation.... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES