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[Nights with Netflix] Screening of Next Gen

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Thanks Hpility , for extending your invite to me to attend the 'Nights with Netflix' event. This event was to check out Netflix's Singapore office, as well as to catch a special preview of an awesome screening! photo credits to hpility.sg   Netflix Singapore's office is located at Marina One West Tower , and it looked splendid! How I wish I could work in such a wonderful environment! The pantry looks just like an eatery place, and was well stocked with drinks, snacks and even cup noodles!   Nextflix won the global rights to stream the movie 'Next Gen' , and this newly animated movIe debuts on the 7th of September 2018 .  'Next Gen' is a family-friendly movie with pretty good computer animated visuals for a non-Disney/ Pixar/ DreamWorks production.     This film, 'Next Gen' was based on a short online comic from the Chinese Multimedia Company 'Baozou' . I really love the scene where the robot needs to choose...

Special screening of The Taking of Tiger Mountain

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'The Taking of Tiger Mountain' is a Chinese-Hong Kong 3D epic action film which is based on the novel, 'Tracks in the Heavy Forest' by Qu Bo. This movie is also Tsui Hark's latest 3D legendary battle during a period of one of the many Chinese civil wars. Personally, I found the balance between the reality and fantasy setting, which t he movie tries to portray a little off and lacking. This was probably due to the movie being his first one with a historical setting. Nevertheless, it was pretty entertaining, and it may not be a classic Tsui film but definitely a decent one! There is some slo-mo shots meant to justify the price of 3D for those who paid extra to see it with the additional dimension. Hong Kong veteran, Tony Leung acts as a villain in the show. His outfit is very flashy, which also is shown on his eight personal warriors, as they were decked out in very prominent and colorful costumes. However, on the other hand, the protagonists of the mov...

[Gala Premiere] Black & White: The Dawn of Justice

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Black & White: The Dawn of Justice starring Taiwanese actor, Mark Chao and Mainland Chinese actor, Liu Geng-Xin . The film will be premiering on the 09th October 2014 .   The setting of the show has terrorists having a series of bombs spread across the whole city, and panic starts to arise. Wu Ying-Xiong paired up with a high IQ police officer, Chen Zhen to track down the mastermind behind the whole bombing incidents.   A continuation of the first installment of Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault which was released in 2012. In the latest installment, Mark Chao reprises his role as the righteous yet impulsive police officer, Wu Ying-Xiong. He pairs up with newbie cop, Chen Zhen (acted by Liu Geng-Xin)   Liu Geng-Xin has a natural sense of humor that injects some comedic scenes into the movie, apart from the whole movie involving extreme bomb explosions and car crashing scenes. Our home-grown actor, Christopher Lee al...

Weekend movie date with Pacific Rim

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Pacific Rim is a long awaited show for all fans of Guillermo del Toro ’s movies as it is the most ambitious project undertaken by him in his career. Finally, it is out in cinemas and Baby wanted to watch it badly, so we decided to catch it on a weekend night at Film Garde, Kallang Leisure Park .     --- Posters of Pacific Rim --- 'Pacific Rim' is set in the 2020s, when Earth is under attack by Kaiju (Japanese word for ‘strange monster’). In order to combat them, humanity unites to create the Jaegers , gigantic humanoid Robots each controlled by two pilots whose minds are joined by a neural bridge. Raleigh Becket (played by Charlie Hunnam) is a Jaeger pilot with a rebellious streak and his new co-pilot, Mako Mori (starring Rinko Kikuchi) does her role well despite her English containing a strong Japanese accent, but she compensated for it with her acting and remarkable Kendo fighting skills. Stacker Pentecost (played by Idris Elba) is the leade...

VROOM: Movie date with Fast & Furious 6

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Baby is a hard core fan of Fast & Furious series and he has never missed out any installments since the first movie way back in 2001, and as for me I missed out a couple of series along the way.   I went in to the cinema hall with low expectations due to the trailer, but I was surprised after watching the movie and I was pretty much satisfied by the outcome. There were many tense action scenes and the fights and the car chases were amazing.     --- Posters of Fast & Furious 6 ---      The story starts off with Dominic Toretto (starring Vin Diesel) and Brian O'Conner (played by Paul Walker) and the gang who are being recruited by Luke Hobbs (starring Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock) to bring down an international criminal named Owen Shaw (played by Luke Evans) who was aided by thought to be 'dead' Letty Oritz (starring Michelle Rodriguez).     Justin Lin is a skilled action director and the action s...

Movie Date with G.I. Joe: Retaliation

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I watched the blockbuster hit, G.I. Joe: Retaliation , and reviews on the internet has been widely negative, so I went into the movie without any high expectations mainly because this movie is generally made for the boys, and I was there with my Baby as he is a huge fan of G.I. Joe cartoons and as per him, he had a vast collection of the action figures when he was a kid.     --- Posters of G.I. Joe: Retaliation ---   My best Joe in 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' is Snake Eyes ( played by Ray Park), his performances were great and he made the whole movie looked exciting.     Dwayne Johnson as Roadblock did a tremendous job in action and acting in the movie. He is always the foremost action star with a sweet core.   Jaye (starring Adrianne Palicki) looked great in the red dress and it added a sexy touch to the film.     In my opinion, the best villain character in the movie has to be Firefly (played by Ray...