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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 [...]

Because I have to get up for an interview tomorrow morning, I’m just gonna take a quick look at the 9 low expectations I had for Wolverine yesterday, and say hit, miss, or in between:
1) Deadpool better kick ass like he should, and he better be “The Merc With The Mouth” like he should. Verdict: [...]

If all things go as planned, tomorrow the girlfriend and I will catch X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and I’ve decided in advance I will leave my utter dislike for Wolverine as a character at the door (though I think Hugh Jackman makes a good Wolverine), and I will clear my mind of all the glaring continuity [...]

The girlfriend and I caught an exclusive movie preview of Fanboys a few weeks ago thanks to Golden Village, and as a Star Wars fanboy, I had a blast.
Let me start by mentioning that out of the eight bookshelves at home, three are dedicated to Star Wars, and as of this moment, I have 11 [...]