ONAT LOPERA

I really missed doing one of these entries. A little over a year since the last one. To break the deep slumber, here’s one that celebrates how good some movies are. Enjoy.
Atonement. From the man that gave us my favorite period drama movie so far, Pride and Prejudice (my review here), comes Joe Wright’s latest [...]

The awful “first movie for the year” aftertaste that Jumper left is finally gone because of this nice family flick; The Spiderwick Chronicles. Story was great and what’s more surprising is that for a movie that was probably made for kids, it had a surprising depth to it, especially on the characters and the details [...]

Becoming Jane. A biography of the young Jane Austen, on her world famous book and her romance with an Irishman, Thomas Lefroy.
I can’t remember when I found out about this movie but I was so excited that they were finally making it. I am a huge fan of Pride and Prejudice (movie) and somehow knowing [...]

Resident Evil: Extinction. They had failed to contain the virus. Within weeks of the breakout, it had spread through out the globe turning it into an arid hell. Fast forward five years later; they are still on the hunt for Alice.
Watched this last Saturday with a couple of friends. Surprisingly only a quarter of the [...]

Drama, comedy and a mix of both. One is just a filler.

The History Boys - A bunch of boys that belong to the same class in search for higher learning. This is really good. It’s funny, witty and sharp. It was originally a play and the original casts were the same for the big screen [...]

Three great ones, a documentary and just-an-eye-candy on the bunch.

Alone (Faet/Fad). Straight from Thailand, from the team that made the Asian Horror blockbuster Shutter, (which I haven’t seen yet, but on my list for my next trip to the video shop Watched it. Here it is.) Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, where a deceased Siamese twin returns and haunts her living sister. Overall, it [...]