“Chaos Rising” is a better episode for this season’s Teen Wolf as compared to the premiere. It is more interesting to see the plot evolved this time.
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TV Review: Game of Thrones – Mhysa
Today marked the end of Game of Thrones Season 3 and that has to possibly be the happiest finale I’ve ever watched from the show.
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What’s On Stage: Dirty Dancing
Yes! The first stage review for me on this blog!
Dirty Dancing: The Musical is currently playing in Singapore and being a musical fan, I caught it yesterday with a few of my pals.
Everyone knows Dirty Dancing so I’m not going to get into the plot. It is a classic story of Baby and Johnny, two different people from two different backgrounds who came together and dance their way through the summer. This very classic story is now put on stage into a musical featuring one of the timeless classic, “Time Of My Life”.
I am pretty disappointed with the musical. It literally puts what was in the movie onto stage and it gets really cheesy for me especially the scene in the ocean. What was a romantic scene in the movie became a joke on stage. It was also really draggy as they follow the movie through and through. Now, movie and stage are two completely different mediums and you need to know how to differentiate the two. What I wanted to see was not a replica of the movie onto stage. What I wanted to see was the musical interpretation of the movie. So what I ended up watching bored me out. I would also like to point out how there are times when the band drowned out the voices of the singers so you had to strain to hear what they were singing. But the musical does have a redeeming factor – the dance. The dancing on the stage was really great. I’m glad they do not screw that up in the least. You can’t screw that up. The dancing made Dirty Dancing dirty dancing.
So, if you have not watched the musical wherever you are and are considering watching it if it is on tour in your country, I would suggest watching the movie instead.
The trailer:
Movie Review: Now You See Me
Yesterday, I watched Now You See Me starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson and Morgan Freeman among others.
I have to admit that my reasoning for watching this movie in the first place was my crush on Mark Ruffalo. But the trailer was really good in selling the movie so I decided to watch it. It is about four magicians who managed to rob banks through “magic” and give the money to their audience. Mark Ruffalo acted as the FBI agent trying to nab these four magicians and Morgan Freeman as a former magician determined to reveal their secrets.
This is the kind of movie that you need to pay attention from the start. It was quite thrilling to see the four magicians together. The way the director made the magic show was really stylish and modern. The movie also made it seem like these four magicians are the modern-day Robin Hoods. In some way, they are. What I also like about the movie is the ending. Earlier, I said to pay attention from the start. I paid attention from the start and I am the kind of person who could guess a movie’s ending or how the movie is going to go. The ending for this movie was so brilliantly done that it threw me off. I can tell you no one in the theatre I was in could guess the ending. Practically everyone gasped. I was completely thrown. It made me so speechless. But what kind of put me off is the acting by Melanie Laurent as an Interpol agent partnering with Mark Ruffalo’s character. It seemed a little off to me.
That said, it is a good movie to watch and I enjoyed it very much. It is definitely worth the money.
The trailer:
Love It Or Hate It: Cargo
Being kind of unemployed right now gave me a lot of time on my hands. I just found this YouTube video on Tumblr and decided to watch it. I did not regret my decision to do so.
This YouTube video is a short found on YouTube by a Tumblr user named “ladykalliste” called Cargo. It is a finalist in Tropfest Australia 2013.
In a world where people seemed so interested in zombie apocalypse in movies and books, this particular short film gives a breath of fresh air to the popular plot. It is a very short film but it managed to show the love of a father for his child, even when zombie-bitten.
I’m not a particularly huge fan of zombie apocalypse storyline but this 7-minute short film gripped my heart. Warm Bodies shows that there is some form of humanity still even when R is a zombie. This short film does it in 7 minutes.
Love it or hate it? I absolutely love it.
TV Review: Teen Wolf – Tattoo
It is finally here, guys, Season 3 of Teen Wolf!
There will be spoilers in this review so under the cut it goes…
TV Review: Game of Thrones – The Rains of Castamere
There are no words to describe how I feel after watching the latest episode of Game of Thrones. No words at all so I will just leave you with this gif to express how I feel and let me collect my thoughts before I write a coherent review of the episode.
I don’t read the book and I know this was written ages ago. There is nothing we can do about it because it’s a book that’s written ages ago. George R. R. Martin had written it and meant for it to happen and he has said that it was one of the most difficult scenes to write. Trust me, as a viewer, it is going to be one of the most difficult scenes to watch for any TV shows. If you are wondering, Kurt and Blaine’s break-up scene is one of those difficult scenes to watch.
Because what I am about to write would contain spoilers, I have to hide what I said under the cut…
Movie Review: Fast & Furious 6
I just came back from watching Fast & Furious 6 in a packed theatre. Everyone seems to love this franchise. What’s not to love about this movie? Cute guys, bunch of muscled men (if you are into that), pretty ladies, fast cars, explosions everywhere and a little bit of romance. It’s basically for both men and women.
This time, in the 6th part of the series, the cops needed help from the gang to catch a wanted man, played by Luke Evans. But more than that, Michelle Rodriguez’s character is actually alive all this time. The catch is – she has lost all of her memories.
I actually enjoyed the movie, more so because of all the funny lines from Tyrese’s character. It’s something you can catch with anyone and have a great time. But I do wonder when this is gonna end. When you watch the movie, there will be something that happened at the end of it and you know that there’s gonna be a Fast & Furious 7. When is it gonna stop? It will stop once people are sick of it. In the meantime, the franchise is still raking in the money.
TV Review: Criminal Minds Season 8
Last night, I just finished watching Season 8 of Criminal Minds.
You know what I love about crime shows? You don’t get sick of it. Okay, that’s a lie: I did stop watching CSI but I continue to watch Criminal Minds because that show has some of the sickest episodes ever. And they usually solve serial crimes rather than a one-off ones. They use the evidence gathered to figure out the background and mindset of the criminals and send out a profile so that the cops can catch them. I also love the chemistry between the cast members. You can truly see that they are a family.
In Season 8, we see Matthew Gray Gubler once again helming the director’s seat for a couple of the episodes and one of the episodes is pretty traumatizing with the human puppets. And in this season, we also see quite early on that someone is seriously stalking the team and it’s an ongoing storyline throughout the many episodes so that was pretty interesting to watch but the season finale was a little of a let-down as compared to the previous seasons. It lacks the suspense we see in the two seasons before this.
Also, notably in this season, I notice a lot of LGBT characters coming out, no pun absolutely intended – a gay couple questioned at the park, a lesbian couple with a kid who was a part of a kidnap case, a gay character who had a bad childhood, etc. There are lot of that this season, in my opinion. That was nice to see.
Overall, I had nothing much to comment. Criminal Minds would probably never disappoint me and I can’t wait to watch the ninth season.
Love It Or Hate It: The Wanted – Walks Like Rihanna
The Wanted’s “Walks Like Rihanna” has been going around on the radio for weeks! Whenever I’m at work with the radio on in the office, I can hear this song being played at least three times in a matter of 8 hours. To be honest, at first, I was like: “What in the world is this song even about?” But I have to admit, it is pretty damn catchy. It is the kind of song you want to hate but you can’t because it gets stuck in your head for the rest of the day, playing in constant loop and in turn, making you like the song. Boo yah!
But this “Love It Or Hate It” post is not about the song – well, it is, sort of – but it’s actually the music video.
I am pretty late in the game. The music video is released three weeks ago on YouTube. So, if you have not watched it yet, here it is:
I saw a lot of comments on YouTube wondering what the song is actually about, whether it’s an insult to Rihanna and the boybands that they mimicked in the video. I actually thought otherwise. Maybe because I have a strange sense of humour.
About the song: I don’t think it’s an insult to Rihanna. I feel that the song is about a girl who can’t sing, can’t dance but she walks like Rihanna. Pretty straight-forward, in fact. They ignore her “flaws” because she’s sexy. At least that’s what I think. We can’t take it seriously and just have good ol’ fun.
About the video: I think it’s The Wanted doing tributes to possibly the three of the best boybands ever – *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys and Take That. They are not making fun of them. They can’t make fun of these boybands when they are one themselves. Let’s be honest, no other boyband nowadays are like the boybands of the ’90s. I’m pretty sure even those who swore that they hate boybands would know “Bye Bye Bye”, “I Want It That Way” and “Back For Good” and can sing them by heart.
Love it or hate it? I don’t hate it at all. And no, it’s not because I do love the boys of The Wanted. I just thought it’s hilarious to see The Wanted trying to do the Backstreet Boys. I’ve seen The Wanted in action and no, I don’t think they can dance like the boybands in the ’90s.
Talking about boybands, I might just do a playlist of my favourite boyband songs ever. So, do watch out for it!
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