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Review: Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson, Baywatch) portrays Margaret, an American expat living in Japan. Read more
Posted on 12 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Stephen Hillenburg’s The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) was supposed to be the series finale for its third season (and... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Color Out of Space (2019)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Richard Stanley is no strange figure for mind-bending B-movies inspired by classic sci-fi literature. His last tenure, the... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
A Season With: Humans (2015 – 2018) – Season 1, 2 & 3
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Humans, created by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley—based on a Swedish series, Real Humans—explores a futuristic world where human... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
A Season With: Serigala Terakhir (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 4 mins Over 10 years after the release of Upi Avianto’s gangster blockbuster, Serigala Terakhir (a.k.a. The Last Wolf), a sequel in the... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: His House (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins In His House, Sudanese refugee couple flee their war-torn home country and, against all odds, manage to cross the sea—leaving the... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Rebecca (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins To step onto the path that Alfred Hitchcock had once walked into—in a hard fought creative battle against David Selznick—is indeed ... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Nocturne (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins A unfairly fate-rigged sibling rivalry has forced twin sisters, Juliet (Sydney Sweeney from The Handmaid’s Tale and Sharp Object)... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
A Season With: Yowis Ben: The Series (2020) – Season 1
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Director Fajar Nugros and YouTube personality turned actor, Bayu Skak, return to expand their double sleeper hits, Yowis Ben and... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Story of Kale: When Someone’s in Love (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 4 mins “Happiness is a personal responsibility,” Kale (Ardhito Pramono) shares his life advice to Awan (Rachel Amanda) at the edge of thei... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Nobody has the idea that Sacha Baron Cohen has been cooking a follow-up to his shamelessly controversial yet hilarious... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: The Lie (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Remade from the 2015 German thriller, We Monster, Veena Sud’s The Lie premiered in the 2018 TIFF before Blumhouse took it under... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 4 mins The year is 1968. A massive anti-Vietnam War protest at Democratic National Convention in Chicago has broken into an unprecedented... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Hubie Halloween (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins The sixth movie in Adam Sandler’s 6-movie contract with Netflix (which has eventually extended to 10 movies ever since) arrives as ... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Alone (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 2 mins In 2020 alone, there are at least 4 full features titled “Alone” with more short films bearing the same title. Read more
Posted on 18 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Pelukis Hantu (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Back in the mid 2000s, supernatural TV shows suddenly ruptured and became nationwide phenomena, with almost every national channel... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Evil Eye (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins Sarita Choudhury (from the arthouse hit, Mississippi Masala) and Sunita Mani (supporting star in the recently cancelled GLOW) star... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Black Box (2020)
*Estimated Read Time: 3 mins In Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr.’s full-feature directorial debut, Black Box, a visionary doctor stores human’s memories, consciousness... Read more
Posted on 08 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: Enola Holmes (2020)
Now we are back again to Baker Street with Holmes and another mystery to solve. Sherlock (Henry Cavill) is home; and, so is his brother, Mycroft (Sam Claflin). Read more
Posted on 29 September 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Review: The Devil All the Time (2020)
The devil is cunning and, most harrowingly, resilient. Its whisper can transcend time and space; bend and slip through even the slightest crack in human’s soul. Read more
Posted on 18 September 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES