Paskalis Damar

LATEST ARTICLES ( 572 )

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

  

  In a world where superhero TV series comes in either one of these three styles: Netflix-Marvel street-vigilante style, Marvel movie tie-in style, or DC's... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• March 2017 – A Recap

  

  My birthmonth has coming to its end with lots of things going on in my blog. First of all, I decided to resurrect A Season with series for appreciation towards... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ghost in the Shell (2017) – Review

  

  In a futuristic Blade Runner-esque city - cramped with neon-blaring buildings and hologramscapes - multi-national/multi-racial humans and humanoid androids... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dear Nathan (2017): A Grey-and-white Meet-cute

  

  Dear Nathan is a clear-cut boy-meet-a-girl story. A bon-chic-bon-genre girl, Salma (Amanda Rawles) unexpectedly meets a violent, rich yet troubled greaser,... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blindspot 2017: Schindler’s List (1993)

  

  Based on a real story about Oskar Schindler - a German businessman who saved thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied German during the World War II, Schindler's... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Devil’s Candy (2017) – Review

  

  Review: A fatherly painter, Jesse Hellman (Ethan Embry), who happens to be a death metal aficionado, moves to a bigger, new house along with his wife, Astrid... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: Iron Fist – Season 1 (2017)

  

  Review: Welcome the final-yet-weakest member of The Defenders - Marvel's street level vigilantes who fight criminals around New York City - Iron Fist! What I... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Thursday Movie Pick #12: The Underdogs

  

  Thursday Movie Picks by Wandering through the Shelves returns. According to the theme of the week, three to five movies are picked and shared with the reason.... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Life (2017) – Review

  

  The first thing Life has successfully proven is: space horror is still helluva sub-genre. While most space-themed films recently focus on breaking more grounds... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Power Rangers (2017) – Review

  

  To the glorified 90s kids, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was an all-time phenomenon. Five candy-colored heroes in costume (well, sometimes six), guided by a... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Beauty and the Beast (2017) – Review

  

  I once wrote an abridged history of Beauty and the Beast roots on my review of Christophe Gans' La Belle et La Bête. How this beautiful French lore has... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Trinity, The Nekad Traveler (2017): An Unsympathetic, Uninspiring and Preachy...

  

  Based on best-selling memoir 'The Naked Traveler' (13 series, so far), Trinity, The Nekad Traveler is basically an almost plot-less re-enactment of how and why... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Gold (2017) – Review

  

  Oscar winner, Matthew McConaughey gone method portrays an inspired-by-true-figure prospector, Kenny Wells, in Stephen Gaghan's Gold. Born with silver spoon,... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Thursday Movie Pick #11: Ancient World (3600 BC – 500 AD)

  

  Thursday Movie Picks by Wandering through the Shelves returns. According to the theme of the week, three to five movies are picked and shared with the reason.... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: Santa Clarita Diet (2017) – Season 1

  

  Netflix drops another binge-watch-worthy Drew Barrymore-starred sitcom, Santa Clarita Diet, a while ago. The premise is kinda offbeat: mixing "zombie" story wit... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Season With: Taboo (2017)

  

  British colossus, Tom Hardy, teamed up with his Locke's director, Steven Knight, for a period revenge-thriller, Taboo. Same as the title, the whole episode of... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Kong: Skull Island (2017) – Review

  

  Among the most ancient colossal monsters in Western cinemas, Kong is possibly one of the most formidable. Almost always plotted out as an antihero, the giant ap... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Thursday Movie Pick #10: Most Wanted Sequels

  

  Thursday Movie Picks by Wandering through the Shelves is here again. I do apologize for skipping the gig for two consecutive weeks. The rules are simple: based... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Logan (2017) – Review

  

  Imperceptibly, it's been 17 years since then-relatively-unknown Oz actor, Hugh Jackman, was casted as Wolverine in Bryan Singer's X-Men. The character's... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Silence (2016) – Review

  

  Undeniably, Silence is Martin Scorsese's most personal and ambitious work to date. Adapting Shusaku Endo's 1966 novel of the same title about the voyage of two... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2017 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES