UK Style, Lovin' It

Not too long ago, I went to watch 'Millions' during the European Union Film Festival at GSC, besides another movie called 'Edukators' (from Germany). There were too many shows in the list within a short time period, so I couldn't catch more which I wanted to.



'Millions' was one of those movies that came out right from the "UK factory" that doesn't disappoint you. Those that are familiar with Danny Boyle's style (Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later...) will notice his trademarks with his movies again, with unique cinematic scenes and effects (e.g. the computer generated building of a house at the opening part of 'millions', diving into the underwater world of a toilet bowl in 'Transpotting'). Other than that, most of the storyline of his movies are interesting as well. Also, Boyle doesn't stick to a particular genre, as '28 Days Later...' is horror, 'Trainspotting' and 'Millions' being part comedy/drama and 'The Beach' being some sort of thriller.



'Keeping Mum' was another British film that I watched last night at a friend's house after dinner. It was shown before in our local cinemas here, but I thought that it was just another "tasteless" show, so I ignored it. Even more, it has "Mr Bean" aka Rowan Atkinson acting in it. Actually, it was a pretty good show worth seeing, after watching it. Don't judge a movie by it's poster, I'd say.

The Real 'Snakes On A Plane'... In The Making

The 'best' show of 2006 almost happened in real life. Not to mention, with lizards also.

BBC News Link

Malaysian Cinema Scene

Most of us know that throughout the years, the Malaysian cinema scene has always been Malay, Hindi/Tamil, Hong Kong and Hollywood films that are found in the list of movies available here (early 90's). Afer that, there had been the addition of Japanese, Thai, Korean flicks not too long ago which added in more variety for the crowd to choose from (sadly, most Jap Thai and Korean are horror flicks which are not my cup of tea). Thanks to GSC International Screens, we have the opportunity to watch many foreign movies (french, german, italian, etc.) on the silver screen instead of getting DVDs or other methods (legal or illegal).

But then again, there's always not many audiences for foreign movies. I find that a typical Malaysian movie diet would mostly be the 'Hollywood-junk-food'. Everytime I go into the international screens, there would always be less than half of the cineplex room filled. Anyways, don't get the wrong idea. It is absolutely not wrong to see movies like Eels on a Jetfighter (or is it Bears in a Tower? I can't recall...) once in a while, together with a bunch of friends for a time of laughter and to crack jokes on every crappy scene in the movie.



I'm eying on 'The Edukators' for this year's European Union Film Festival by GSC with my movie gang. There's too many films on the list and we can't afford to watch every one of them, so we're targeting on seeing those high likely to be good ones.

Silence of the...

An old movie + some recent local political happenings = Humour
(taken from Malaysiakini's Cartoonkini)