“Everyone promises you happily ever after… but life turns into a different kind of fairy tale.” “It’s not you leaving that’s going to kill me. It’s you loving someone more.” “You know I want you to be happy. And more than anything, I wanted to be the cause of happiness in you.” “Luce: What’s your [...]
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“You Broke My Birkin!!” – Sex & The City 2
Thanks to the good people at Golden Village who gave me to passes to the media preview of Sex & The City 2, I was all giddy with excitement in anticipation for last Friday. That is, until Friday came, and I was literally giddy – I had a temperature, I was throwing up and there [...]
A Single Man
Looking in the mirror staring back at me isn’t so much a face as the expression of a predicament. – George, A Single Man If it is aesthetic pleasure you’re looking for, Tom Ford is your god, as he displayed in his directorial debut in A Single Man. I first watched this movie on a [...]
Carey Mulligan
Months ago, I wrote about Carey Mulligan after watching An Education. I fell in love with the movie – the longing to escape from reality is something I can identify with, and I fell in love with Mulligan – her impish features combined with her ability to ooze the almost-melancholy deep-rooted desires of the 16-year-old [...]
Best Love Story of 2009
Didn’t you think Carl and Ellie’s journey in Up was such a perfect love story? And to think the storytelling was probably done in ten minutes right in the beginning of the show and got a whole lot of us tearing. Best love story of 2009, fo shizzle. And perhaps, someday soon, I’ll tie your [...]
An Education
After not having watched a movie for ages, the girls and I watched An Education, and what a great flick it was! Set in 1961, the very pretty Carey Mulligan plays a smart 16-year-old schoolgirl who is mildly disappointed with her lot in life. In a twist of fate, she falls in love with the [...]
Here Comes Coraline
While I could easily be happier living in another city, I can’t complain about my living conditions in Singapore. One of the things that annoy me most though, is how late some movies get to us. Like Coraline, for example. The movie was released in the US early February this year, and it’s only going [...]
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