Bride Wars

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Gary Winick

Casted by:
Kate Hudson as Olivia "Liv" Lerner
Anne Hathaway as Emma Allen
Candice Bergen as Marion St. Claire
Chris Pratt as Fletcher Flemson
Bryan Greenberg as Nathan "Nate" Lerner
Steve Howey as Daniel Williams
Kristen Johnston as Deb
Michael Arden as Kevin
Story:

Emma Allen and Olivia 'Liv' Lerner are best friends who have planned every detail of their weddings, since first witnessing a wedding 20 years ago at the Plaza Hotel. Therefore, they both have made it a lifetime priority to be married in the same location in June.

The movie begins with the two women getting engaged at the age of 26. They then schedule their weddings with New York's most famous wedding planner, Marion St. Claire, but due to a clerical error they are scheduled to have a wedding on the same day, June 6. A week of passive aggressive hostility passes before the two women make it clear that neither will compromise, especially after Liv tries to take advantage of Emma's passive nature and outrages Emma in the process. During this time, Emma's fiancé, Fletcher, begins to show signs of being controlling.

Both women attempt to sabotage the each other's wedding, including Liv making Emma's tan turn bright orange, Emma tampering with Liv's hair dye to turn Liv's hair a shocking blue-white colour, Emma showing up to Liv's bachelorette party to out-dance her, and Emma secretly sending Liv candy to make her too fat to fit into her dress. Eventually, Emma and Fletcher get into an argument regarding Emma's manic behavior of sabotaging Liv's wedding and their friendship.

Both brides-to-be are then shown to be in the Plaza very shortly before they are due to be wed, separately. Right before Liv leaves to begin her march to the altar, she encounters Emma's father and receives his blessing; she regrets setting up a wild spring break DVD to play at Emma's wedding. She sends her best man to replace the wrong DVD with the right one, filled with childhood memories. However, thinking that the DVD is for a prank, he does not do so, dropping it into a flowerpot and muttering, "You'll thank me one day."

Emma begins her walk down the aisle but stops when the footage of her spring break is shown. She loses her temper completely and tackles Liv after sprinting to the other section of the Plaza. The two brides wrestle in their dresses on the floor while the rest of the room looks on, the people closest to the brides having decided it would be best to let the brides resolve the problem. After tussling, Emma and Liv lie on the ground panting, and then make up almost instantly. Emma stands up and walks over to Fletcher who is upset at Emma's behavior. Emma tells Fletcher that she is not the same person he fell in love with 10 years ago and that she has now changed. With that, the two tearfully call off their wedding. Liv's wedding resumes with Emma participating and, eventually, dancing with Nate, Liv's brother.

The movie picks up a year later when Emma and Liv meet up for drinks, where it's revealed that Emma married Nate. Emma and Liv also reveal to each other that they are pregnant and that their due dates are the same, March 3.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Comedy + Romance never fails to attract a lot of audience, same as this film. Hudson + Hathaway = double hot :) Though in the end of the wedding, Anne did not get marry, but she finally has her ideal man in the end which i think its kinda cool.

The whole storyline is simple and fun. A lot of laughter and a lot of sweet moments in this film that you will never wanna miss.

Hostel

Released Year: 2005
Directed by Eli Roth

Casted by:
Jay Hernandez as Paxton
Derek Richardson as Josh
Jennifer Lim as Kana
Eyþór Guðjónsson as Óli
Barbara Nedeljáková as Natalya
Jana Kaderabkova as Svetlana
Story:

College students Paxton and Josh, along with their friend Óli , are backpacking across Europe. At their hostel, they meet a Russian man named Alexei who informs them about an undocumented hostel near Bratislava filled with beautiful, American-loving women.

The three subsequently board a train on which they meet a peculiar businessman, who freaks Josh out by placing his hand on his thigh. The three leave the train at a small Slovakian village, and check into the local hostel, finding themselves sharing a room with two beautiful single women, Natalya and Svetlana, who invite them to the disco. At the disco, Josh is saved from a gang of impoverished children looking for money and bubblegum by the peculiar businessman. The next day, a young Japanese backpacker, Kana, approaches Paxton and Josh, who are searching for Óli, informing them that her friend, Yuki, is strangely missing as well. An MMS photo sent from Yuki's phone shows Yuki and Óli, with the word "Sayonara" beneath it. A while later, they spot a man wearing Óli's jacket. Not long after, Paxton and Josh receive a second MMS photo message from Óli's phone, in which their friend appears in a closeup face shot with the text "I go home". Then, the scene shifts to the source of the photo, revealing Óli's severed head sitting on a table. Paxton and Josh decide to leave Bratislava with Kana the following day. Paxton later notices that the photo of Oli and Yuki has been faked. Although Josh is anxious to leave immediately, Paxton talks him into staying just one more night, so they can have sex with Natalya and Svetlana one more time. Josh reluctantly agrees. Later that night, while partying with Natalya and Svetlana, Paxton and Josh are slipped tranquilizers. Josh stumbles back to the hostel while Paxton passes out in the disco's storage room.

Josh wakes up handcuffed to a chair in a dungeon-like room. The businessman comes in and starts torturing him, telling him about his unfulfilled dream of being a surgeon. After slicing Josh's Achilles tendons and seemingly allowing him to leave, the now unable to walk Josh is killed by the businessman.

Paxton returns to his room where two women invite him to a spa, eerily similar to Natalya and Svetlana. When the local police chief proves unhelpful, Paxton locates Natalya and Svetlana. He interrogates them on the whereabouts of Josh and the girls eventually agree to show them where he is. Once Paxton enters the factory, he shockingly witnesses the businessman cutting open Josh's corpse. He is then ambushed by thugs and taken to a cell. He is restrained in a chair and joined minutes later by a German client, Johann. After cutting off two of Paxton's fingers, he unknowingly severs Paxton's restraints. Johann slips and cuts his leg off. Paxton gets out of the chair and shoots Johann. Paxton escapes the cell and makes it to a dressing room. He discovers Kana being tortured and frees her, after killing her torturer. The two flee in a car, running over Natalya, Svetlana and Alexei intentionally. With the help of the child gang, Paxton and Kana elude the guards and head to the train station. When Kana sees a reflection of her disfigured face, she jumps in front of an oncoming train, while Paxton gets on another train.

Aboard the train, Paxton hears the voice of the businessman. In Vienna, he follows him to a public restroom and throws the Elite Hunting's card under his stall. When the businessman reaches to pick it up, Paxton cuts off two of his fingers, holds his head underwater and, when the businessman sees Paxton's reflection, slices his throat. Paxton then boards a train leaving Vienna.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Fucking torturing and killing film that you will not wanna miss. Though the 1st half of the movie is more about sex and nudity, but the 2nd part is terrible enough to freak u off. Some of the gross scenes do really make me feel like vomiting. Ish~

Scream 4

Released Year: 2011
Directed by Wes Craven

Casted by:
Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott
Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers Riley
David Arquette as Sheriff Dwight "Dewey" Riley
Emma Roberts as Jill Roberts
Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed
Rory Culkin as Charlie Walker
Alison Brie as Rebecca Walters
Story:

The film started with 2 girls watching Stab series horror movie but only to let the audience discover they are watching a movie when they were killed. After that it was another trick to audience which seems like a movie after 2 girls were killed in another Stab series movie. High school students Jenny Randall and Marnie Cooper are attacked and brutally killed by a new Ghostface on the anniversary of the murder spree by Billy Loomis and Stu Macher.

The following day, Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro to promote her new book and becomes a suspect in the new murder spree. She stays with her aunt Kate Roberts and cousin Jill , who is dealing with the betrayal of her ex-boyfriend Trevor Sheldon, while the attacks continue, taking the lives of Jill's friend Olivia Morris, Sidney's publicist Rebecca Walters , deputies Anthony Perkins and Ross Hoss, Kate and badly injuring Gale Riley.

During a gathering at Jill's friend, Kirby Reed's home, Ghostface strikes, killing Robbie Mercer while Sidney arrives to try and save Jill and Kirby. After Kirby is forced to answer horror film trivia questions to spare the life of Charlie Walker, he reveals himself as the killer and stabs her in the stomach, leaving her for dead. His accomplice is revealed to be Jill who intends to kill Sidney and become the "new" Sidney, framing Trevor for the spree. Jill executes Trevor, betrays and murders Charlie and severely wounds Sidney before injuring herself to appear the lone survivor. In hospital, Jill learns that Sidney has survived and attempts to finish her off but with help from Gale, Dewey Riley and Judy Hicks, she shoots Jill in the chest, killing her.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

Holy shit, my teenager's time fav horror movie is back for another sequel. This was supposed to be a trilogy horror film 10 years ago, but the director and producer decided to bring the movie back for another trilogy starring Campbell and both Arquettes.

This time the movie add in a lil bit of comedy inside on the beginning of the movie. The whole film twist and turn until u discovered its the sick psycho Jill who is the killer becoz she wanna gain some fame on all these killing.

Cool, this is a movie not to be missed :)

Ice Kacang Puppy Love 初恋红豆冰

Released Year: 2010
Directed by 陈庆祥 Niu Chan

Casted by:
陈庆祥 Niu Chan as Botak
李心洁 Angelica Lee as 打架鱼 Fish
曹格 Gary Chow as Marley
陈美娥 Angela Chan as Fish's mum
梁静茹 Fish Leong as Barley
品冠 Victor Wong as Prince
Story:

Botak is from a small village, a son of a coffee shop owner. He falls in love with Fish whose mother is a fried koay teow cook in Botak's family shop. Since small, Botak and Fish has been bullied by Marley but Marley's sister, Barley likes Botak instead.

As they grow up, Marley fell in love with Fish too after one incidence when Fish accidentally falls on Marley and make him cum in his pants. Fish has problem with her mother and decided to go to Penang together with Botak to look for her father. But the father was not she expected to be.

Few teenagers, Fish, Botak, Marley, Barley & Prince has been falling into a complicated love story and each of them grow up and live their own life. But they will never forget their first ice kacang puppy love.

L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

A very good try for Ah Niu to direct his first movie. A very simple and yet touching puppy love story. It might be suitable for us who has been keep on watching those big block buster. A very good movie and i hope to see more from our local production soon~ bravo

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma)

Released Year: 1975
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Casted by:
Paolo Bonacelli as The Duke
Giorgio Cataldi as The Bishop
Umberto Paolo Quintavalle as The President
Aldo Valletti as The Margistrate
Caterina Boratto
Elsa De Giorgi
Hélène Surgère as Mrs Vacarri
Sonia Saviange as the pianist
Renata Moar
Franco Merli
Inès Pellegrini
Story:

The film is set in the Republic of Salò, the Fascist-occupied portion of Italy in 1944. The story is in four segments loosely parallel to Dante's Inferno: the Anteinferno, the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Shit, and the Circle of Blood.

Four men of power, the Duke (Duc de Blangis), the Bishop, the Magistrate (Curval), and the President (apparently Durcet) agree to marry each other's daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual. With the aid of several collaborator young men, they kidnap eighteen young men and women (nine of each sex), and take them to a palace near Marzabotto. Accompanying them are four middle-aged prostitutes, also collaborators, whose function in the debauchery will be to recount erotically arousing stories for the men of power, who, in turn, will sadistically exploit their victims.

The story depicts some of the many days at the palace, during which the four men of power devise increasingly abhorrent tortures and humiliations for their own pleasure. In the Anteinferno segment, the captures of some victims by the collaborators are shown, and, later, the four lords examining them. The Circle of Manias presents some of the stories in the first part of Sade's book, told by Mrs. Vaccari. In the Circle of Shit, the passions escalate in intensity from mainly non-penetrative sex to coprophagia. A most infamous scene shows a young woman forced to eat the feces of the Duke; later, the other victims are presented a giant meal of human feces. The Circle of Blood starts with a black mass-like wedding between the guards and the men of power, after which the Bishop is sodomized by his assistant. The Bishop then leaves to examine the captives in their rooms, where they start systematically betraying each other: one girl is revealed to be hiding a photograph, two girls are shown to be having a secret sexual affair, and finally, a collaborator and the black servant are shot down after being found having sex. Toward the end, the remaining victims are murdered through methods like scalping, branding, tongue and eyes cut out as each libertine takes his turn to watch, as voyeur.

The film's final shot portrays the complacency, myopia, and desensitization of the masses: two young soldiers, who had witnessed and collaborated in all of the prior atrocities, dance a simple waltz together.

L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

Despite how many naked and cute guys and girls in the scene, i still feel like vomiting after watching this movie. Urgghhh~ feel so uncomfortable after watching this, its really sick!!! I'm not sure how they get this idea for this movie anyway....

Immoral Women - Les héroïnes du mal

Released Year: 1979
Directed by Walerian Borowczyk

Casted by:
Marina Pierro as Margherita Luti
Gaelle Legrand as Marceline Cain
Pascale Christophe as Marie
Francois Guetary as Rapheal Sanzio
Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Bini
Hassane Fall as Petrus
Gerard Ismael as AntoineStory:

1st woman - Margheritta
Margehritta is having an affair with Tomaso, she then met the brilliant artist Rapheal. They have a lot of sex when Rapheal draw her portrait in naked. She then happened to know Bini, a rich man who came to visit Rapheal. Rapheal poke one of Bini's eye blind when he peep at Rapheal and Magheritta having sex. Margheritta went to Bini house to seduce him and fed him with the cherry which will make Bini super active in sex. Bini later on found dead after having too many sex. Margheritta left while stole all the jewelry. Margheritta later fed Rapheal with the cherry and cause him to die while she stole his money. Margheritta went away with Tomaso with all the things she steal.

2nd woman - Marceline
Marceline is young and slut, she has a rabbit name Pinky. She always play with her rabbit and let it tickle her pussy. She ignore her parents and her parents get angry and cook her rabbit and force her to eat it. Marceline get angry and ran away, she ran to Petrus the black butcher and seduce him. Petrus rape Marceline in the barn and discovered she's a virgin. He thought Marceline was dead and hang himself in the barn, but later on discover Marceline was not dead and ask for help. Marceline did not help and left him hang to dead, she then take away Petrus' knife and slash her parents throat while they are sleeping.

3rd woman - Marie
Marie went to a book shop with her husband and instruct her husband to fetch her back after a short while. But Marie was kidnapped by Antoine into a van for money. Marie was also instructed to call her husband for the money and went back into the van. But Marie's dog was smart enough to trace her. Antoine later rape her in the van. Marie's dog arrive and bit off Antoine's cock. When the husband arrive, the dog gone crazy and bit off his cock too. Marie went crazy and laugh.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

From the ever erotica director, Walerian Borowczyk, a very good film of showing the immoral women behaviour in 3 parts of different short stories. Kinda love it except the 3rd story Marie. I preferred the 1st one which show how bad a woman can be when they wanted to. Wow, i m gonna find Borowczyk's production :)

High School Musical

Released Year: 2006
Directed by Kenny Ortega

Casted by:
Zac Efron as Troy Bolton
Vanessa Hudgens as Gabriella Montez
Ashley Tisdale as Sharpay Evans
Lucas Grabeel as Ryan Evans
Corbin Bleu as Chad Danforth
Monique Coleman as Taylor McKessie
Bart Johnson as Jack Bolton
Alyson Reed as Ms. DarbusStory:

Troy and Gabriella meet at a New Year's Eve party while both are at a ski lodge during winter break. Troy is the captain of East High School's basketball team, and Gabriella is portrayed as shy and academic. At the party, the two are called upon to sing karaoke together (Start of Something New). They seem to be attracted to each other, and exchange numbers before parting.

After break, Troy sees Gabriella in his homeroom, and she explains that she just moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico and transferred to East High over break. Troy shows Gabriella around the school, and they pause in front of the sign-up sheet for the winter musical auditions. This alarms Drama Club president Sharpay Evans, who assumes that Gabriella is interested in auditioning. Wanting to eliminate competition, Sharpay investigates the new girl and arranges for the scholastic decathlon captain, Taylor, to find out about Gabriella's past academic achievements.

During basketball practice, Troy has trouble focusing because his thoughts are on Gabriella and the idea that he might enjoy singing more (Get'cha Head In the Game). Gabriella and Troy both go to the musical auditions where Sharpay and her brother Ryan perform (What I've Been Looking For) but both are too shy to audition. When Gabriella finally summons the courage to step forward, Troy offers to sing with her, but Ms. Darbus tells them that they are too late. After Ms. Darbus apparently leaves, Kelsi, the composer of the musical, trips and drops her things. Troy and Gabriella rush to help her, and they sing together as Kelsi plays piano (What I've Been Looking For (Reprise)). Ms. Darbus overhears them and gives them a callback audition.

When the callback list is posted, Sharpay is furious to learn that she has competition for the lead in the musical, and the rest of the Wildcats are shocked that Troy and Gabriella have auditioned for a musical. Other students confess their own secret passions and talents (Stick To The Status Quo), alarming both Taylor and Troy's friend Chad. Since Gabriella has agreed to join the scholastic decathlon team, both Taylor and Chad want their teammates to focus on their upcoming competitions rather than the musical. To help Troy and Gabriella return to normal, Chad and the basketball team trick Troy into saying that Gabriella is not important while she watches through a wi-fi link that the scholastic decathlon team has set up. Gabriella is hurt (When There Was Me And You), she refuses to talk to Troy and decides not to audition for the musical. Chad and Taylor feel guilty for ruining Troy and Gabriella's relationship, and decide to tell them the truth. After Chad and the basketball team tell Troy what they did and offer to support him in callbacks, Troy goes to Gabriella's house and they make up.

Intimidated after overhearing Gabriella and Troy practicing, Sharpay convinces Ms. Darbus to change the callback time to coincide with both the basketball championship and the scholastic decathlon, so that Gabriella and Troy cannot participate. Kelsi overhears the conversation and the basketball team and the decathlon team work together to come up with a plan. On the day of the competitions, Taylor and Gabriella use the schools computers to cause a series of mishaps that delay the big game and the decathlon. With both competitions delayed, Troy and Gabriella rush to the auditorium, and Sharpay and Ryan finish performing their song (Bop To The Top), confident that their plan worked. Troy and Gabriella then audition (Breaking Free) and Ms. Darbus gives Troy and Gabriella the lead roles, making Sharpay and Ryan understudies. Troy and Gabriella both win their respective competitions, and the film ends when the entire school gathers in the gym to celebrate (We're All In This Together).

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Watching this make me feel young :) Love the dance, love the vocals, love Zac Efron :)

A Disney produce never fail to make the heat in the teens (though i'm not one). But i'm really a fans of Efron, I found him extremely cute. Of course, i watched the 3rd movie b4 in the cinema, this will be the 1st time i watch the 1st movie, and it really is a nice movie :) All of them look so young and fresh~ love it so much :)