Too Little Time...

The older I get, the less time I have to do my own things. If you track back my FLOG, I am suppose to shoot my next short film, but still haven't found the time to do it, and if I don't take the chance it will definately go away.

The thing is work took most of the time, and only leaving me enough for sometime to myself to relax, and for the family. Must try really hard to make more effort in executing things are close to my heart and passion. The little time I have did saw me indulge in some great movies, such as X-Men Origins : Wolverine, Star Trek, Taken and a few classics as well.

Suprisingly 'Taken' was pretty intense and enjoyable considering not much hype about it. Liam Neeson played well as the new action-man, worth checking it out. As for Wolverine and Star Trek...great entertainment!!!

Updates...

Time really move fast...with the speculation of economy down-turn, things been pretty quite lately. Everyone is just working hard to not get booted out and been laying low. Times like these many will be at home more, playing more games, surfing, watching TV and DVDs. Hopefully there will be more great content coming out on our TV. 

Hope to catch "Shinjuku Incident" soon, and awaiting the release of "Wolverine". 

Revolution

To all readers "Happy Chinese New Year", today is the first day of the new year. Though there were lots of doubt on world economy, recession and war, I do hope all this will end and regain some stability.

Having said those, in the entertainment industry, lots of great stuff coming out on the silver screen and also on TV. Last December I saw "Ip Man" starring Hong Kong star Donnie Yen, the kung fu was awesome, it was done in a very fresh approach, which made the art of "Wing Chun" way cool. There is a rumour a sequel is in planning...let's hope it will live up to the previous. For those who missed "Ip Man", go watch it.

Over in Hollywood, tons of movies are releasing this 2009 such as Wolverine, Watchmen, Sherlock Holmes and many more blockbusters and great films. As for me, I was also given the responsibility to give fresh and exiting TV content. My works are in progress and hopefully they will explode in Malaysia.

I also managed to catch "Kinta 1881", the first martial art chinese film in Malaysia. I must say thought the storyline is weak, bu the fight scenes and the cinematography were quite impressive. Given it's the first effort, I do hope this will inspire more of this genre.


(movie posters courtesy from google)

Hello 2009

Already in 2009, what's next...Chinese New Year just around the corner. Time really flies when your occupied. The thing is there isn't much CNY films from Hong Kong releasing lately. We use to have Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Andy Lau and a whole bunch more coming up with great CNY blockbusters. But however, the past few years have been quite quiet. 

Is it because of the piracy plague which have somehow crippled the financial risk of releasing more films or the pool of Hong Kong stars are getting very limited and are struggling to find new talents to fill the gaps of the veterans. 

Well, let's hope in 2009 onwards we could see more positive support from government and the public to take responsible in reviving the film industry.

The only musical that I really enjoy is "The Sound Of Music", till today I could sing and hum those tunes. Since then I have seen a few musical films, but none left any impressions to me. Not until recently...Sweeney Todd, it did took a while to convince myself to give it a chance. Finally I gave in and watched it. It was quite refreshing, giving this is the darkest musical film I have ever watched. Lot's of blood and the lyrics are dark as well. It was a well done, and with Johnny Depp in the lead role, how bad can it be? 

Definitely worthwhile watching, so if any of you are running out of movie titles to watch, try Sweeney Todd, he will put your dark-side into perspective.

{*movie poster courtesy of Wikipedia.com}

Geez, where do I start...? My last post was in March 2008, and now we're in almost end August 2008. Time passes so fast and all you know it has been 6 months already. Well, been working most of the time, didn't really have much time for doing anything interesting of late. 

I did stayed home and catch up on the X-Files series (Season 1-4), before heading to the cinema for the release of X-Files : I Want To Believe. After watching through season #1 & #2, I then only realize how a big fan I was...because I could practically remember all those episodes. That was spooky. The new film however, didn't have any of the trademark from the series, except focusing heavily on Mulder & Scully's relationship. The rest was just backdrop, nothing important. It's a very personal film, which only the hardcore fans will understand.

Batman : The Dark Knight, was impressive, having so many characters and good actors in a comic hero movie...was done with class. No doubt Heath played well as the Joker, I personally feel Michael Cain, Morgan Freeman and Harvey 2 Face were outstanding. Batman's love interest this time around, however made me miss Katie Holmes.

CNY Moments

Here are some CNY moments to share with you all. Over the past 2 years been kind of dark and confused, but that seems to be fading of as I stepped into 2008. Hope all will be well form this year onwards. Enjoy the pictures.