Paranormal Activity

Released Year: 2007
Directed by Oren Peli

Casted by:
Katie Featherston as Katie Herself
Micah Sloat as Micah Himself
Story:

This film is shot based on a documentary style. Micah and Katie are engaged couple who live together. Katie has been haunted by spiritual thing which mess up her normal life. Micah then bought a video camera to shoot and prove the appearance of the spiritual thing.

A lot of paranormal things happen including the door close and open by itself. Noise appear in the living room... Footprint appear in their bedroom... And more worse, Katie was pulled by unknown things out from their room. They are mentally disturbed and stress on it. They call for help from a priest but nothing can be done.

One night, Katie was obsessed and went to living room, camera can't shot it as Micah run down for help. Micah shout horribly but nothing was shown as Katie came back with her clothes full of blood. Police officer discovered it later and shot Katie to death.

L² Scored: 6.5/10

L² Comment:

I have checked thru wiki, it actually has 3 different kind of ending. Another 1 is Katie cut her throat in front of the camera; while the next one is Katie drag Micah's body back to the room after she killed her. The ending which i watch will be the original version :)

No Regret 후회하지 않아 (Huhoehaji Anha)

Released Year: 2006
Directed by Leesong Hee-il

Casted by:
Lee Yeong-hoon as Lee Su-Min
Kim Nam-gil as Song Jae-Min
Story:

Su-min is an orphan who, having turned 18, is required to leave his orphanage. Unable to pay for university, he heads for Seoul where he works various jobs to pay for computer classes. One of those jobs is driving drunks home from bars. After losing his factory job, Su-min ends up taking a job at a gay host bar.

Initially the boss of this host bar is reluctant to take him on, as he knows from experience that openly gay hosts will often leave when they become romantically involved with one of their clients. Having given up on love, Su-min believes that this won't happen to him, until one day a man from his past enters the host bar. That man, Jae-min, is a former driving client, who has fallen in love with Su-min.

Su-min refuses his advances, and accepts him as a client only once, and threatens to kill him if he hires him again. Jae-min is undeterred, and after several weeks go by, Su-min gives in. They are very happy in their relationship until Jae-min's mother discovers them together. She orders Jae-min to marry the woman he's been dating halfheartedly.

Su-min is angry and with another man from the host bar, they kidnap Jae-min one night and take him to a shallow grave in the forest. Su-min watches passively as his colleague throws dirt on Jae-min, but eventually he strikes, takes Jae-min out of the grave and back to the car.

Both of them get together but met an accident when they are getting out from the forest. But they were lucky when the police came and rescue them.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Personally, i think this is a great gay film. Nothing too much of exaggerating and emotional. Just show the love among this two boys. Especially the feeling that hurt Su-Min when he has to reject Jae-Min's love even though he knw himself that he cannot resists Jae-Min.

The Inspector Wears Skirts 霸王花

Release Year: 1988
Directed by 钱升伟 Wellson Chin Sing Wai

Casted by:
胡慧中 Sibelle Hu as Madam Hu
羅芙洛 Cynthia Rothrock as Madam Lo
陳雅倫 Ellen Chan as Jean
惠英紅 Kara Hui as May
吳君如 Sandra Ng as Amy
柏安妮 Annie Bridgewater as Karen
冯淬帆 Stanley Fung as Sir Fung
杜德伟 Alex To as Man
楼南光 Billy Lau as Nam
简慧珍 Regina Kent as Lam

Story:

The story starts as the Hong Kong Police was not able to protect the wife of a VIP from Middle East due to lack of police woman, therefore they form a team of Ba Wang Hua which team up all the best policewoman in the squad. Madam Hu was directed to be the trainer for this squad.

During the training, there were the sexy Jean; funny Amy; cute Karen; ambitious May and scardy cat Lam. They were enforce to go on a very tough training set by Madam Hu and her partner Madam Loh. They then meet the Fei Hu Squad which were form up by the best policeman lead by Sir Fung. The guys are going after the girls and a lot of funny scene were created.

Sir Fung definitely going for Madam Hu, but accidentally pissed her off by saying the female is a weaker gender. Madam Hu set up a fight for both squad to compare which is the stronger gender, and the male loss. Not long later, they received a mission to capture the international jewelery theft. But some of them were captured due to their carelessness.

In the end, it was Ba Wang Hua team who managed to fight back and win the battle.

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

This movie is one of my favorite when i was a kid, i repeat it for almost more than 50 times. I always have a good laugh when i see Sandra Ng. Regina Kent is my favorite, she's gentle and pretty. But today while i scan through wikipedia for her information, i noticed that she has passed away in her age of 31 due to brain tumor cancer. What a sad thing~ RIP Regina

2012

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Roland Emmerich

Casted by:
John Cusack as Jackson Curtis
Amanda Peet as Kate Curtis
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Adrian Helmsley
Thandie Newton as Laura Wilson
Liam James as Noah Curtis
Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis
Story:

Adrian Helmsley, a scientist discover that the Earth Core temperature has been increase dramatically with a scientist in Indian, he then reported to the president in US. They then inform others throughout the whole world. They began to build noahs to prevent themselves from injured by the disaster that's gonna struck them in 2012. Tons of royal families, private businessman and billionaires donate money to build these noahs in china so that they can get themselves tickets to go on board.

In 2012, Jackson a science-fiction book writer, divorce with his wife Kate. While bringing his kids to Yellowstone, he met a crazy guy who talks about the disaster which he found hilarious and hard to believe. By sending back the kids to his ex wife, he have to serve as a limousine driver to a rich man. Jackson then discover this rich businessman has bought ticket of the noah. He quickly inform the ex and children to run for their life.

Kate current boyfriend has a pilot license, they then flew to China to get aboard. US president reject to go aboard and decide to stay with those citizens who didn't manage to go on board. Sending his daughter Laura to the noah, Adrian feels that its his responsible to take care of her.

As for the Curtis family, they got help from a LAMA in Tibet to find the noah. They sneak through the hole of the noah. When Adrian and others saw those who struggle outside of the noah to get inside, they open the door for them to get in. Accident happen and the door of the noah cannot be close, and engine cannot be start. Disaster happen and water starts to flow into the ship. They have to solve the problem before their ship hit mount everest. Jackson solve it and everybody was save.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

This is a bit similar with other disaster movie. Just that, its more advance of building the noah of letting everybody in. Those who deserves and contribute to the earth. Who draw this guideline then? who decide who can aboard? normal citizens like us will never got the chance of escaping this disaster if it really happen~ ish~ hate tat !!!

Web of Deception 驚魂記

Released Year: 1989
Directed by 徐克 Tsui Hark

Casted by:
林青霞 Bridget Lin as 林楚翹 Jane
王祖賢 Joey Wong as 王素群 Queenie & 王素娟 Cat
王小鳳 Pauline Wong as 文嘉儀 May
李美鳳 Elizabeth Lee as 周可怡 Mimi
Story:

Jane is a lawyer who goes for illegal action just to earn more money. She has been working closely with Mimi, the agent for some under-table business. Not long enough, Jane received an intimidate letter regarding an illegal thing she has done before.

To pay for this, Jane ask Mimi to sell all her shares to get a huge amount of money and put it at her mansion. Jane suspect Mimi for being the person who threaten her; in the meanwhile May as her long-time assistant was being suspect too. But actually May is the person who send out the intimidate letter to Jane because Jane did not promote her in the company.

As May afraid that Jane will suspect her, she then ask Queenie to steal the money from the mansion. Queenie has a twin sister, Cat who just came out from the prison. Both twin sister sneak into Jane's mansion, but Queenie was killed. Cat was frustrated and angry at Jane, she then plan to kill Jane and May to get the money for herself. Although Mimi came later and Jane ask for her help, but Mimi was attacked by Cat.

On a fight in the car, Jane save Cat from getting hit by a van. When everyone thought it is over and live on their life, ICAC discover this and send them to prison.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

For an old movie like this, its consider good :) and never thought Bridget Lin can be so sexy :) I always a fans for bridget and joey. Whenever they act together, the movie must be superb.

Cold Showers - Douches Froides

Released Year: 2005
Directed by Antony Cordier

Casted by:
Johan Libereau as Mickeal
Pierre Perrier as Clement
Salome Stevenin as Vanessa
Story:

The movie talks about a life of a teenager, Mickeal who came from a poor working family in France. The father lost his work and the whole family depends on the mother to work as a cleaner to support the whole family. As a Judo club member, Mickeal was requested by the coach to teach the newly join guy, Clement for the coming competition.

When the guys fool around in the shower room, Mickeal accidentally hurt his team-mate. Without the team-mate who's in the light-weight category, the whole group will be suspence. Mickeal was force to lose around 8kg to fight in the light-weight category. During his diet period, he was stress and being moody. The girlfriend Vanessa was always beside to assure him.

Once, Mickeal and Vanessa have sex together with Clement after the training. Mickeal let Clement penetrate Vanessa while Vanessa blow him. After that, Clement started to fall in love with Vanessa; Vanessa treat this as normal stuff while Mickeal started to doubt about their relationship. Later on when they decide to try the group sex again, Mickeal back off and let Vanessa do it with Clement. Mickeal was confused and jealous. He hates Vanessa then and wanted to break off.

During tournament time, Vanessa pissed off Mickeal and get punched in the face. Time passed, Mickeal's family finance problem has been resolved. And everything seems different to him.

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

Although i dont understand french and have to read the subtitles all the time, but its new to me. Kinda love the story coz its nothing too fancy for a 1st timer like me to watch french movie :) Sex and naked scene was well damn alot~ But i was doubt abt how french ppl life? Is this wat french has been doing all these while? seems like their life are more "open" then other races...

Push

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Paul McGuigan

Casted by:
Chris Evans as Nick Gant
Dakota Fanning as Cassie Holmes
Camilla Belle as Kira Hudson/Hollis
Djimon Hounsou as Henry Carver
李小璐 Li Xiao Lu as The Pop Girl
溫明娜 Ming Na as Emily Hu
Story:

The movie describe some sort like mutant things since the Berlin War. A lot of people who has the ability or power has been trained as a secret weapon for war.

There is "mover" who can move object; "pusher" who can control others' mind and push them to do something; "Watcher" who can see future through premonition or others' intention; "snifer" who can sense through other people's track by touching certain object; "shifter" who can shift one thing to another; "shadower" who can hid some object without other seeing/knowing; "sticher" who can heal wound or hurt others; "wiper" who can wipe out other memories; "bleeder" who use huge voice to hurt their opponent.

Nick lost his dad when he was young to the division who try to capture them. Division is an agency which capture all these mutant and try to evolve them into the next stage for war. Nick then move to HongKong for a safety hide-out. Later he met Cassie who sense their future. Cassie sense their future as a dead body and the only way to solve this is to find a girl with beads; then she will lead them to a case which can kill the head of division, whom is Henry Carver.

Both Nick and Cassie found Kira, who happened to be Nick's girlfriend. But division kept on looking for them while there's the chinese gangster who are looking for the case too. A few exciting scene of fighting, then it leads to the pop girl who try to kill Cassie. But Cassie managed to switch her future and KO the pop girl. While for Nick, he managed to win back Kira and Kira used her pusher power to defeat Henry Carver.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Personally, i love all these superpower/magic/mutant thingy very much :) Chris Evans is hot; Camilla is sexy; Dakota is flawless while Li Xiao Lu is a goddess ~ Big applause to china actress Xiao Lu for showing her 1st appearance in Hollywood. Although her cantonese sucks as usual, but surprisingly her english is good :)

While Dakota has been grow up quite a lot, think she gonna have more movie waiting up for her soon. Overall the movie is very good and i simply love it :D

About A Boy

Released Year: 2002
Directed by Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz

Casted by:
Hugh Grant as Will Freeman
Nicholas Hoult as Marcus Brewer
Rachel Weisz as Rachel
Toni Collette as Fiona Brewer

Story:

Will's father is a famous composer of a christmas song, earning a lot and left enough properties and money for Will to spend his life. Will always believe that "Everyman is an island", he wanna live his own life in his own way. Being jobless and irresponsible, he has been wasting his life for more than 30++ years.

Until he met a single mum who he enjoy to have sex with, Will start to attend the SPAT gathering, which is a gathering for a single parent. By knowing a beautiful single mum, indirectly he knew a boy who name Marcus. Marcus came from a single parent family too. His mum, Fiona suicide which make Marcus always look for Will when he was alone. They become buddy and always stick together. Until Will met Rachel.

Rachel is his dreamgirl. The girl that he always wanted. To pretend Marcus as his son, Will approach Rachel who is also a single mum too. Things get funny and complicated until Will secret was discover. Being a supportive dude, Will help Marcus out in a school pop concert to cheer Fiona. Rachel was touched by Will's action and decided to be with him.

L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

Basically, this is a very simple story. Kinda easy to understand. But there's some part which is kinda boring and you might fall asleep if you don't have a coffee with you :) Hugh's acting is so so, nothing much different from his usual perfomance. While this kid, Nicholas really gave a surprise to me. I mean, his acting is not really a superb like Halley or Dakota, but not a bad one too...

Good Times, Bed Times 戀上你的床

Released Year: 2003
Directed by 陳慶嘉 Chan Heng Ka

Casted by:
古天樂 Louis Koo as 高志強 Koh Chee Keong
鄭秀文 Sammi Cheng as 屈小橋 Wat Xiu Kiu
劉青雲 Sean Lau as 周永慶 Chow Weng Heng
蔡卓妍 Charlene Choi as 阿塔 Ah Tat
Story:

The story starts as a magazine reporter Wat investigating the police image-officer Koh, to discover whether he is suffering from impotence. Due to some misunderstanding, Wat thought Koh is healthy when actually Koh has been suffering from the impotence since his penis was hurt during an investigation.

Wat and Koh fall in love with each other. Koh even went to Japan when Wat was having trouble. But in the meantime Wat found out Koh cannot perfomance on bed. Without giving up on the relationship, both of them look around for medicine to solve the problem. At the end, Koh recovered after he defeat the theft on the investigation.

In the meanwhile, Chow is a judge who met Tat, a young and naughty girl. Chow try to avoid Tat coz he's afraid to fall in love with a small girl, but in the end Tat did something which touch his heart. Melted and sweet. Chow proposed and Tat married him in the end.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

This is a love and comedy show to watch. Very entertaining. And as a sammi's super fancs, Leu love this very much. But the movie version in Malaysia was a bit difference due to the law restriction of the muslims... damn... wat does impotence has to do with the rules? crazy!!!

A Nightmare on Elm Street 1

Released Year: 1984
Directed by Wes Craven

Casted by:
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson
Johnny Depp as Glen Lantz
Story:

The story goes as there's this freaky evil monster who appeared in teenagers' dream and able to kill them in their dream. While the teenagers died in their dream, they will die in the real world too... kinda weird right? But of coz, this evil monster is known as Freddy Krueger. This is the 1st movie among the Nightmare series.

Teenagers who live along in the Elm Street will dream of Freddy who has razor-sharp knifes attached to his fingers... Nancy Thompson and her friends are having the weird dreams, slowly one by one, Freddy attacked everyone of them and try to kill them all. Left with only her boyfriend, Glen, both the couples set up a trap to kill Freddy. But things failed when Freddy got Glen.

Nancy then has to run by herself and tried to fool Freddy into the trap. In the end, she successed. Nancy save Glen's life. Just when she thought everything is over, Freddy appeared again and grab them away while they fall asleep during their drive.

L² Scored: 6/10

L² Comment:

My friend once told me that among all the series of Nightmare, the 1st one is the very best. But after i watched it, i still think the 2nd movie is the best :) But its still a nice horror movie. And Johnny Depp~ man!!! i can't recognize him at all~ he change so much...

The Devil Wears Prada

Released Year: 2006
Directed by David Frankel

Casted by:
Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs
Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
Adrian Grenier as Nate Cooper
Story:

Andrea, also known as Andy is highly passionate on writing her journal. Staying with her boyfriend Nate in a small cozy place and dressing casually is what she used to do. But getting into the US 1st top fashion magazine "Runway" is her stepping stone for achieving her target as a journalist. "Runway" editor-in-chief is Miranda, who's an icy-cold woman with excellent job presenter and fussy on everything for being the perfectionist.

Andrea has to suit herself in the high-end and vogue world in "Runway" while assisting Emily as the 2nd assistant for Miranda. After being insult, Andrea learns her lesson and try to be as vogue as other girls in the magazine with the help of Nigel. Andrea starts to have fight with Nate, her friends and even abandoned her dad during dinner due to her heavy job load.

By giving a good performance, she replaced Emily to attend the fashion show in Paris together with Miranda. She also has affair with Christian who's has certain power in this industry. But after seeing the failure of Miranda's marriage, Andrea realized this is not the life that she wants. Giving up on her job, she went for the New York News and get back with her boyfriend.

Of coz, the wonderful Miranda managed to keep her own job and power in the industry and wish all the best to Andrea in the end.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

My favourite show among the year in 2006. Talks about all those high end fashion and company politics. I watched this movie twice in the cinema. Simply excellent. Nothing to criticized but just 2 thumbs up :)