Daryl Tay.net

I finally got down to catching Inception and it really lived up to its hype, bringing a level of brilliance, genius and originality last seen about ten years ago with The Matrix.
In many ways, Inception played out as a comic book or graphic novel in my head as it had all the staples of the [...]

The first Iron Man movie was a revelation. Jon Favreau showed us that humans wearing metal armour could look cool fighting and Robert Downey Jr. brought a pitch perfect Tony Stark to the screen. Iron Man 2, however, suffers with too many B sideplots, and a weak A-plot to be the kick ass sequel it [...]

Back when I was still actively collecting comics, Kick-Ass exploded onto the scene in 2008 written by Mark Millar and drawn by one of my favourite artists, John Romita Jr. The cover promised “Sickening violence! Just the way you like it!” and boy did it deliver. As comics by Mark Millar sometimes do, the series [...]

Ingrid got a pair of preview passes to the new Astro Boy movie (thanks to Golden Village), so we caught the movie earlier tonight and I have to say, I quite enjoyed it!
Before I start, let me preface this by saying I’ve never read about Astro Boy before and I didn’t know a thing about [...]

You watch I Love You, Man and when Jason Segel’s character (Sydney Fife) asks Paul Rudd’s character (Peter Klaven) to lend him $8,000 (a Lost number) and your mind thinks:
“this is where the long con pays off and he makes off with the money like Sawyer from Lost”
By the way, nice fun show to [...]

For the last two months or so, you couldn’t walk around Singapore without seeing the GI Joe movie posters or the GI Joe trailer. I never was a GI Joe fan – I didn’t watch the cartoon when I was young, I didn’t read the comics although they got rejuvenated recently and I never had [...]

Finally managed to catch Transformers 2 and quite frankly, I was not impressed for a number of reasons.
1) Who’s who?
Somehow the film manages to do exactly what the first Transformers movie did, which is make every other character except for Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Starscream and Megatron utterly unrecognisable and indistinct. As someone who didn’t watch [...]

When I caught Star Trek earlier this week, I was pretty surprised to find that a small popcorn and drink combo set is $7.60! If you think about it, that’s more than the price of a movie ticket on weekdays (granted it’s 10 cents more. But more is more).
Seriously though, what’s up with that?
Here’s what [...]

Unlike many Trekkies, I haven’t waited for years for a new Star Trek film. In fact, prior to watching the show today, I wasn’t sure which incarnation of Star Trek was which and found myself wondering “when’s Worf going to show up?”, until I realised that was a different Star Trek.
Armed with that much “knowledge” [...]

<—– Warning: Spoilers in this review!! ——>
The short story: watching Wolverine was like watching Mortal Kombat with mutants. Different powered people fighting each other and showing off powers. Which, you know, in itself isn’t too bad, if you’re prepared for it going in.
Like the girlfriend, I thought the beginning sequence was well constructed. I was [...]