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514,937 | 317,399 | 378,661 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : They Came Back | The horror . . . the horror ! No , the movie's nothing frightening , but in fact , it bored me to tears . You can literally take a leak , go to the snack bar , have a smoke , and return to the theatre , missing absolutely nothing . Half the time I was wondering whether something remotely interesting will crop up midway... |
515,277 | 317,399 | 1,213,644 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : Disaster Movie | I guess the title already tells you everything you need to know about the movie . It is without a doubt a total disaster . I still find it quite amazing that writer directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer still managed to get funds to have their films made , after equally disastrous unfunny comedies such as Epic Mo... |
514,898 | 317,399 | 479,968 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : One Missed Call | One Missed Call gets filed amongst Hollywood Remakes of Japanese Horror that shouldn't have been green lighted in the first place . I suppose with the likes of so many of such remakes , the supposed winning formula would be to adopt the story , slap some relatively known actors in it , and employ every trick in the Hol... |
515,402 | 317,399 | 481,797 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : Youth Without Youth | I guess everyone would have waited with bated breaths at what Francis Ford Coppola would have presented as his first directorial effort after 10 years . I for one , enticed by the trailer , thought that Youth Without Youth would have been a decent force to be reckoned with , given its lush visuals and somewhat a compel... |
514,956 | 317,399 | 417,976 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : The Promise | The trailers , the posters , the casting , all looked promising . Sadly , the storyline is one heck of a convoluted one , and I hate to use the word , but absurd is what The Promise is . This is a fantasy picture as promoted , and true enough , it is , so much that you have to leave your brains at the door . In trying ... |
514,833 | 317,399 | 461,970 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : Invisible Waves | If this is going to be someone's maiden entry into Pen-Ek Ratanatuang's movies , then I dare say that he's not going to win any new fans with this piece of crap . Might even lose the old ones too . Not that I've watched all his films ( missed the retrospective during the symposium last year ) , but Invisible Waves was ... |
514,784 | 317,399 | 435,705 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : Next | I was wondering the strange selection of Nicolas Cage movies to hit the big screens here . There was no love for his Weather Man or Lord of War , which seem on the surface to be probable successes , and I thought World Trade Center was a mediocre effort , no doubt hitting the big screens because of the subject matter ,... |
515,030 | 317,399 | 944,184 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : The Passion | This Year's Most Controversial Sex Thriller proclaims the blurb on the promotional poster . Whoever wrote that must either be out of their minds , or must have watched a different version which contained so many raunchy sequences they were left out for private consumption . But it worked though , as I theatre I went ... |
515,186 | 317,399 | 290,212 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : Full Frontal | 2 words : It SUCKS ! OK , so sue me , perhaps i don't know how to appreciate this film , so if you do , write a comment will ya ? This movie starts off as a movie within a movie , called Rendezvous . For the next hour , you're left wondering what the heck is this movie all about . Simple . Basically just telling you st... |
515,477 | 317,399 | 278,674 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : Return to Pontianak | Asian horror movies have always been popular here , and even local film The Maid by Kelvin Tong managed to strike gold at the box office , here and overseas as well , going against the grain of thought that local movies do not make money . However , in the recent surge of local movie making , there was another Singapor... |
515,193 | 317,399 | 781,392 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : Black Night | When I can sit through a horror genre film and actually poke fun at its stupidity , then you know that there really is nothing to be afraid of . While the attempt is good , the delivery is pretty bad . The acting's mediocre at best , and the ghouls look extremely cheap . A Pan-Asian production , we see three different ... |
515,029 | 317,399 | 794,374 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : Summer Palace | Continuing my weekend of R21 movies , given that almost every screen in Singapore is showing Spider-Man 3 at the moment , and gives a clear indication on how the other blockbusters in the next 2 months will be treated as well . The Passion was a disappointment , and Summer Palace , somehow didn't live up to its hype , ... |
515,066 | 317,399 | 896,815 | 1 | A Nutshell Review : Missing | I hate to make such a statement , but until I see something better from him , I think Tsui Hark has lost his Midas Touch . He had given us wonderful movies , some of which are my personal favourites like the Once Upon A TIme in China series starring Jet Li , and the Blade , but in his attempt to register a more prolifi... |
515,549 | 317,399 | 780,595 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : Redline | You cannot deny that we have an affinity for speed . That's why movies like Fast and the Furious , Dhoom , Rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences , especially local ones . We live on a tiny island , and I cannot fathom why , for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system , most of us ... |
515,442 | 317,399 | 118,688 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : Batman and Robin | This was the film that was infamously credited as the one which brought down the franchise started by Tim Burton . What started out as a dark vision became lighter in tone ( filled in lot of painful one-liners ) and brighter ( more neon colours ) in setting . The formula of showcasing the origins of the villains was st... |
515,081 | 317,399 | 1,037,146 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : All About Women | It must have been crazy to brand this as Asia's answer to the wildly popular Sex in the City , because for all the star power in its female cast , whom besides Zhou Xun , I thought the rest had hung to the coattails of their more popular co-stars such as Stephen Chow and Jay Chou in order to give their cinematic career... |
514,932 | 317,399 | 473,064 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : The Sinking of Japan | This disaster flick is a remake of a 1973 movie of the same title , based on a novel by Sakyo Komatsu . Japan is located right alongside the Pacific Ring of Fire ( active volcanoes ) and also along the edges of plate tectonics , whose shifting will cause earthquakes and tsunamis ( a Japanese term in itself for tidal wa... |
514,896 | 317,399 | 104,455 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : Painted Skin ( DVD ) | Painted Skin is the last movie that King Hu made , and while he revisits Pu Songling's material from Liao Zai , which he last did for his masterpiece A Touch of Zen , this movie however seemed a little strange and terribly dated , with uninspiring plots and despite the power cast , the characters all came off to be goi... |
514,696 | 317,399 | 826,024 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : 9 : 56 | This is a movie from Toilet Pictures . If the name of the production company is any indication how stinky a movie is , then this would be it . I think I'm not really a fan of horror movies , not that I'm chicken , but rather this year alone , I haven't been genuinely spooked by what's on offer so far , be it from the W... |
515,053 | 317,399 | 1,092,034 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : Fate | I've become wary should any Korean movie calls itself , or touts itself , as the largest action movie for the year . Remember the woeful debacle of Typhoon ? Well , it seems that Fate belongs to the same mould , with the assembly of the best looking men the country has to offer , and put them in roles against each othe... |
515,498 | 317,399 | 494,815 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : Forbidden Siren | Forbidden Siren is based upon the Siren 2 Playstation 2 ( so many 2s ) game . Like most video game turned movies , I would say the majority don't translate into a different medium really well . And that goes for this one too , painfully . There's a pretty long prologue which explains and sets the premise for the story ... |
515,495 | 317,399 | 270,841 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : Avatar | It was once remarked by B-movie producer Roger Corman , that Singapore would make a great place for a science fiction movie ( Corman had co-produced Saint Jack , the only Hollywood movie to date filmed entirely here ) . And it's true , as we do have a number of locales that look futuristic enough for on location shoots... |
515,012 | 317,399 | 432,291 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : The Fog | Hollywood has not gotten over its John Carpenter remakes , and The Fog is the latest in a series . From the trailers , we were teased that " there is something in the fog " , but we do not know what . And no , despite being nice to look at and all , the Fog is not at all suffocating . Antonio Island is celebrating its ... |
514,629 | 317,399 | 454,457 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : Frostbiten | To think I was once avoiding horror movies because I thought I was chicken . Hell , I now believe the real reason's cause there are so many bad horror movies out there , that it's just not worth the time and money to watch them on the big screen . This Swedish movie unfortunately , is one of them . Frostbiten started o... |
514,651 | 317,399 | 1,045,655 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : The Haunting of Molly Hartley | I guess all teenage starlets have to go through their cinematic rites of passage by having some horror flick under their belt . So far I've seen every film on the big screen that Haley Bannett had starred in , from her breakthrough role as the uber-sexy Cora " Buddha's Delight " Corman in Music and Lyrics , to Kendall ... |
515,575 | 317,399 | 855,824 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | I don't want to sleep alone - if you have incredible patience , then you probably won't have to . Otherwise , within 10 minutes , you'll fall into deep sleep , as did somebody in the same screening I went to . I have put off writing the review to see if my opinion would change , and I dare say it has mellowed down . I ... |
514,378 | 317,399 | 461,703 | 2 | A Nutshell Review : Skinwalkers | The poster may look menacing , but Skinwalkers is actually a tame pussycat . In the hands of ordinary filmmakers , this is what you get - mediocre , " have we seen this before " moments , and plenty of unintentional comedy , for a werewolf genre that tried to reinvent itself , and exhausted its game plan . To give itse... |
515,227 | 317,399 | 457,275 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Altered | I'd have to admit that the draw of this movie is director Eduardo Sanchez , who helmed the wildly popular and successful Blair Witch Project . Besides , this is an alien movie of sorts , and sounded something like Stephen King's Dreamcatchers , one of those movies that the critics hated , but I enjoyed . But nope , unf... |
515,556 | 317,399 | 955,411 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : The Ten Commandments | I suppose Biblical stories will never run out of fashion , though I find it a bit strange that amongst the numerous potential stories for retelling , the story of Moses got chosen again , and for an animated movie no less , although this one's done in 3D . Remember Prince of Egypt ? Dreamworks Animation pretty much nai... |
515,001 | 317,399 | 427,469 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Dragon Eye Congee : A Dream of Love | This film actually had a one-off screening at GV cinemas last year . I was raring to go watch it , until I found out that it was sold out real fast because fans of Fann Wong were flocking in droves to see their idol in action on the big screen . Nonetheless I had to settle for the DVD , courtesy of movieXclusive . com ... |
514,986 | 317,399 | 1,260,932 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : 252 Signal of Life | While a movie like this would likely contain a tragedy of epic proportions and a celebration of the human spirit , one can't help but to laugh at its missteps , overwrougt melodrama , and sheer ridiculousness of an ending that probably insults the professionalism of the uniformed group it wanted to put in good light . ... |
514,371 | 317,399 | 985,079 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Anna & Anna | Earlier this year , there was a casting call for extras to be in Anna & Anna , with the presence of lead actress Karena Lam , and looking at the film , it would have involved being night club revelers in a darkened pub watching local band Ronin perform . This Singapore-Shanghai co - production , written and directed by... |
515,173 | 317,399 | 845,442 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Cinderella | No , this is nothing about that fairy tale with the pumpkin coach , fairy godmother and the glass slippers , but if I were to elaborate , I would have to spoil it for you , which I won't . But don't let curiosity get the better of you , as this movie is not fantastic . It's one of those movies that start off promisingl... |
515,123 | 317,399 | 409,011 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Lovewrecked | My friend CK asked me to go along for this movie , as he's a huge Amanda Bynes fan , having followed her television series What I Like About You , and both of us agreed upon her comic potential in She's The Man , which was a pretty fun gender bender movie . With a title like that , there's nothing too cerebral about Lo... |
515,055 | 317,399 | 765,476 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Meet Dave | One wonders if Eddie Murphy has lost it . I still remember his early days in action comedy back in Beverly Hills Cop , flashing his pearlies and making wisecracks , being the rather unorthodox cop that he probably would be toying with continuing the franchise to revive flagging fortunes , just like how Stallone went ab... |
514,859 | 317,399 | 1,133,594 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Shaolin Girl | Ever since the success of Stephen Chow's Shaollin Soccer in 2001 , he's been asked time and again whether a sequel was in the works . There still isn't , but he sort of franchised the idea out to the Japanese and served as executive producer , so the outcome of the deal , was Shaolin Girl . However , the net of it all ... |
515,229 | 317,399 | 437,179 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : See No Evil | WWE ( or WWF back then ) stars are no strangers to taking that leap into the movie world , with legends like Hulk Hogan starring in B-movies like Suburban Commando and Thunder in Paradise , or more contemporary figures like The Rock starring in various action movies like Walking Tall and The Scorpion King . Not only th... |
514,399 | 317,399 | 1,378,195 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : A Big Road | The man in the Citibank diner advertisement would probably tear his remaining hair out at A Big Road since it is a true blue " arty-farty " film , and his dinner date probably got the reaction right as well . I had held out getting tickets for this world premiere , and if Kan Lume's Female Games was screening instead ,... |
515,216 | 317,399 | 371,853 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : The Nun | This week's surprise screening at GV turned out to be the horror movie The Nun ( La Monja ) . Seriously , I think that horror movies should try and come up with more imaginative titles , even though the story's about the character as described in the title . Who knows , soon we'll have spinoffs like The Monk , The Prie... |
514,603 | 317,399 | 387,898 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Hidden ( Cache ) | If I'm asked to recommend a film with style but no substance , then this movie will be it for the year thus far . So much have been raved about the direction , that the storyline is left hanging deliberately . Perhaps there's not much of a story to begin with ? We start off with a motionless camera capturing from afar ... |
515,048 | 317,399 | 1,060,249 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Drona | Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra in a sword and sorcery movie from Bollywood ? That's certainly something different for me , and having two leading stars in this movie definitely provided that additional boost to pick up the DVD for closer scrutiny . Alas for a fantasy film , there's nothing groundbreaking in its ... |
514,845 | 317,399 | 1,098,327 | 3 | A Nutshell Review : Dragonball Evolution | Hollywood plundering Japanese pop culture isn't something new . From " Americanizing " television series for the kids from Power Rangers to Ultraman , and adapting famed characters from Japanese film , games and manga to frequent disastrous effect , it still wouldn't stop the studios from going after one property after... |
514,647 | 317,399 | 1,355,236 | 3 | A Nutshell Review | The trailers may have fooled audiences into believing , like the rest of his films , this is a laugh-fest . The funniest bit in the theatrical trailer is nowhere to be found in the film , as are other scenes too . One wonders if they were trimmed for run time reasons ( this clocks in very close to 2 hours ) , but the d... |
515,248 | 317,399 | 453,451 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Mr Bean's Holiday | Rowan Atkinson's Mr Bean first burst into mainstream TV prominence in this part of the world sometime in the early 90s , where half hour episodes containing skits of that famous character cut through all boundaries with its humour - by not having Mr Bean speak ( or speak minimally , and when it doesn't matter ) , and s... |
515,286 | 317,399 | 424,823 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Balls of Fury | Balls of Fury is a movie that takes the mickey out of martial arts movies , throwing in a few cheap laughs , and nothing more . Like bad movies with plenty of cheese that adopts martial arts like Mortal Kombat and DOA , Balls follows the usual formula of having a prodigy fall from grace , only to be thrusted into a mis... |
515,468 | 317,399 | 891,592 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Street Fighter : The Legend of Chun-Li | Made in collaboration with Capcom , I think someone probably thought enough time had past and the past stinker forgotten , and to follow suit in a franchise milking programme like what Marvel and DC had embarked upon , a reboot is in order and the current buzzword . So just like how the characters in Street Fighter hai... |
515,367 | 317,399 | 462,396 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : The Last Legion | There are many adaptations and versions to the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table , with Merlin the sorcerer , and of the magical sword Excalibur , some versions which set it into stone , while others , handed out by a lady in the water . The Last Legion is essentially touting a story about the begi... |
515,214 | 317,399 | 405,469 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : The Wild | 2006 is the year of the animal animation . Earlier in the year , we had the local stinker Zodiac Race , and over the next few months , there are offerings like Over the Hedge , Barnyard , Happy Feet ( no doubt inspired by March of the Penguins ) and Open Season . It's an animal world out there in the world of animation... |
515,331 | 317,399 | 996,605 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Love Songs | In the running for the Palme d'Or in last year's Cannes Film Festival , Love Songs by Christophe Honore was nothing like what the writeup used in the festival synopsis would have let you believe . Either that , or I'm really dense to have trusted what was essentially a verbatim recap of only the first of three segments... |
514,791 | 317,399 | 358,345 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : The Uninvited | The marketeers bill this as a modern horror masterpiece and ranks up there with recent horror stories like Ringu . I'd say phooey , it doesn't even come close , not by a huge mile . Starring probably Korea's most recognizable face Jun Ji-hyun , I'd admit I was curious enough to see how she would take on a horror story ... |
514,598 | 317,399 | 466,342 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Date Movie | That my friends , was what actually put me on a theatre seat to sit through the crass comedy Date Movie , with an incredible fat ( courtesy of a fat suit ) Alyson Hannigan gyrating to Milkshake . Like Scary Movie ( hey , written by 2 of the 6 writers you know ? ) , it spoofs its own genre of movies , and here , it's th... |
515,516 | 317,399 | 397,044 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Blood and Chocolate | From the producers of Underworld , this movie looks like a cheap cousin to the popular wolves versus vampires movie starring Kate Beckinsale . Based on a book by Annette Curtis Klause , and directed by Katja von Garnier , it's difficult not to draw comparisons because of the subject material and similar themes , this t... |
515,369 | 317,399 | 87,406 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : ( DVD ) The Hidden Power of Dragon Sabre ( 1984 ) | The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre are two fabled weapons in Jin Yong's novel of the same name , and though I haven't read the original book , my recollection of the story goes back to the 80s where Tony Leung Chiu-wai was playing the lead role of Zhang Wuji in the Hong Kong TVB series . In fact , days were the those th... |
514,555 | 317,399 | 1,076,251 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Help Me Eros | I've got to admit that while I find it difficult to enjoy the works of Tsai Ming-liang and his protégé Lee Kang-sheng , there's still something about it that still draws me to their movies , perhaps in a determined attempt to try and cut through the usual droning of themes like alienation and loneliness , to discover i... |
514,622 | 317,399 | 454,919 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Pulse | I've watched the original movie which Pulse is based upon . As is the current trend , Asian horror movies are being adapted or remade by their western counterparts at a rapid pace in an attempt to offer something different in style of the genre to its own audiences . If you haven't watched Kairo , you might think that ... |
514,827 | 317,399 | 454,970 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Turistas | Turistas is a clear cut Hostel wannabe . The similarities are obvious , with a group of backpacking tourists having the time of their lives , only to have their vacation cut short after taking advice from outsiders , and find themselves in compromising situations which threaten their lives . It's a race against their a... |
514,852 | 317,399 | 995,752 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Tashan | Summer season is here when the choices in the cinemas are limited to what's the hottest movie of the week , given 99 . 9 % of the screens dedicated to screening it . OK , so I may exaggerate on the percentage , but you get my drift . Besides stuff from Hollywood , Bollywood too have their own share of highly anticipate... |
514,830 | 317,399 | 370,032 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Ultraviolet | I hate to say this , but Ultraviolet is this year's Elektra . It's a bad hybrid of Aeon Flux , Underworld , Resident Evil and Elektra combined using the production style of Sky Captain , shot against digitally created scenes . Not that it is bad though , I actually sincerely believed , from the trailer , that it had po... |
515,003 | 317,399 | 352,501 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : One Night Husband | Anyway the two movies presented were a hit and a miss , and One Night Husband turned out to be a bad miss . If many in the audience had their eyes closed at one point or another , or become fidgety in their seats , my opinion is that whatever is transpiring on screen , doesn't have enough of what it takes to hold an au... |
515,430 | 317,399 | 991,246 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Life Can Be So Wonderful | This film is anything but wonderful . Consisting of five short films by Minorikawa Osamu , it's one of those pretentious flicks that try to pass itself off as art , and there's nothing worse than stringing together a series of short films with nary a common theme and passing it off as a feature film . Sure , there are ... |
514,685 | 317,399 | 81,165 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : The Mystery of Oberwald | The Mystery of Oberwald is a made of television movie , done in video before being transferred to 35mm . As introduced by Lorenzo Codelli , this movie reunites actress Monica Vitti and director Michelangelo Antonioni since their last collaboration in Red Desert , some 17 years earlier . During this while , Vitti became... |
514,594 | 317,399 | 768,137 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : The Shoe Fairy | FOCUS : First Cuts is a series of films showcasing some of the works from up and coming Asian directors . Supported by Andy Lau's Focus Films , we'll be seeing a slew of 6 movies , the first being the Taiwanese movie The Shoe Fairy , starring Vivian Hsu and Duncan Lai , directed by first timer Robin Lee . The Shoe Fair... |
515,121 | 317,399 | 414,853 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Barnyard | Talking animals . Only in animation do you get away with having animals exhibit identifiable human traits , and speak like we do . Of late , with the success of many Disney and Pixar movies , this year alone we'll see a bumper crop of talking animals in animated flicks from successful ones like Over the Hedge , to comp... |
515,499 | 317,399 | 362,120 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Scary Movie 4 | I'm a fan of campy grossed out politically incorrect comedies , so films like Top Secret ! , Airplane , Hot Shots and Naked Gun , are right up my alley . For some strange reason , I never did watch any of the past Scary Movies , save for the bits shown in various trailers . And I'm sad to say that Scary Movie 4 , is un... |
514,572 | 317,399 | 465,494 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Hit-man | 10 years ago , Philip Noyce directed a movie that was based on an adapted character . He put this character in Russia , and got him embroiled in some political intrigue that's way over his head and should not have involved him in the first place . Naturally , our anti-hero ( he's a professional thief by the way ) bites... |
514,619 | 317,399 | 901,475 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : Breath | Of the limited number of Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk's movies , I have only seen a handful of them , and mostly they are the relatively contemporary movies , like The Bow , 3-Iron and Time . The feeling I got from them all is consistent - that it's not your usual storytelling , as he seemed more often than not to obscure ... |
514,512 | 317,399 | 455,857 | 4 | A Nutshell Review : When a Stranger Calls | When a Stranger Calls belongs to the group of this year's remakes , with movies like Poseidon just over the horizon . Director Simon West ( Con Air ) helms this updated version , with plenty of relative unknown casts , which signals either the death rate is high ( it isn't ) , or that established stars are steering cle... |
515,208 | 317,399 | 386,504 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Haven | It all boiled down to one Friday the 13th night . Haven takes place in the Cayman Islands , paradise on Earth , with beautiful beaches , friendly people , and of course , being the ideal place to stash cash , ill gotten or otherwise , free from taxation . In its seedier side , to paraphrase from another movie , weed is... |
515,526 | 317,399 | 453,383 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : ( SIFF ) Next Door | So you've just broken up with your girlfriend and she has moved out of your flat . Your life is miserable , and you're now all alone . But wait , suddenly you realize that your neighbours are a pair of hot chicks , you're strangely attracted to them , and they're giving you the come-hithers . What do you do ? John's in... |
515,017 | 317,399 | 93,215 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : ( DVD ) Hot Pursuit ( 1987 ) | After a hiatus of weeks , I'm back with scouring the library for more John Cusack movies . Hot Pursuit is one of his earliest movies , even earlier than the previously reviewed Say Anything . Here , he plays a teenager whose Chemistry exam stands in the way of spending a Caribbean holiday with his girlfriend and her fa... |
514,388 | 317,399 | 462,501 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Real : The Movie | Goal ! probably gave football fans a reason to cheer that there is finally a movie worthy of the sport , never-mind the teams that were featured in it . It got the right moments of excitement , joy , trials and tribulations that most football fans could identify with in players and their clubs . However , Real : The Mo... |
515,273 | 317,399 | 1,159,502 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : The Black Swindler | I guess not only Hollywood is keeping an eye for potential comic book series or graphic novels to turn into movies , and for Japan , this had already been something ongoing given its rich manga culture with immense material to tap upon , with the latest and most popular here being the Death Note movies which had even s... |
514,640 | 317,399 | 891,511 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Mission Sex Control | First of all , let's get our minds out of the gutter . The title already provided you a clue with the keyword here being " Control " , meaning this is no free-wheeling " mission sex " comedy with expectations of copulation being put in the spotlight . Rather , this turns out to be educational ( for a while ) and comedi... |
514,429 | 317,399 | 462,519 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : School for Scoundrels | So you're a pushover , lack guts to go after the one you love , and rely on stacks of self-help books to tide you over your pathetic life . Wake up ! Genuine help is on the way ! Be a lion ! Get what you want ! Welcome to the School for Scoundrels ! OK , I think I sounded a little too enthusiastic for this movie , but ... |
515,167 | 317,399 | 382,628 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Dark Water | I've haven't been much of a fan of the recent wave of popular Asian horror films , and haven't really paid much attention to the Hollywood remakes either . That is until Jennifer Connelly compelled me to take a dip into Dark Water . Connelly stars as Dahlia , who's in a custody battle with her estranged husband ( Dougr... |
514,465 | 317,399 | 78,121 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : ( DVD ) The Proud Youth ( 1978 ) | As mentioned in my earlier review of Swordsman , it isn't easy condensing plot elements from Louis Cha's richly textured martial arts novels for the big screen . In The Proud Youth ( bad title by the way ) , somehow it managed to do so , given a screenplay written by Ni Kwang , but it's ultra summarized , with zero roo... |
515,239 | 317,399 | 444,682 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : The Reaping | Watching two Hilary Swank movies back to back , I thought it presented a good opportunity to see how the same actress tackles different roles , one a dramatic piece about life's lessons , and the other this , The Reaping , taking on some supernatural forces , although she almost started this movie in a lecture hall pre... |
515,506 | 317,399 | 466,909 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : The Omen | The remake of The Omen will mark a triple grand slam of horror movies I watched in a row ( which is so rare ) , with Slither and Silent Hill making up the other two . From one demonic kid in the latter movie , to Damien , one of the earlier demonic kids in cinematic history , this remake , like most remakes , will make... |
515,144 | 317,399 | 1,379,169 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : LOV | After the phenomenal box office success of Cape No . 7 , it sure didn't take long for leads Van Fan and Tanaka Chie to be starring in the same movie again , albeit not exactly opposite each other , because L-O-V-E . is an anthology of four short films by directors Chen Yi-xian , Vincent Fang , Huang Tzi-chiao , and Jiu... |
515,283 | 317,399 | 808,331 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Joshua | There are kids who are adorable , and kids who just gets on your nerve . Joshua gets filed under the latter , with a creepy look to boot . No offense to child actor Jacob Kogan who gets the titular role , but when he's brooding with that psychotic glint in the eye , you just want to throw him into a cage and toss the k... |
514,691 | 317,399 | 400,717 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Open Season | OK , this year alone probably saw a record number of talking animal animations , with countless of punchlines filled with pop culture references , and big name stars attached to the projects , that it's about time we give the genre a good break , rather than churning them out continuously with more misses than hits . A... |
514,430 | 317,399 | 457,430 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Pan's Labyrinth | A lot have been said about Pan's Labyrinth , and having critical praise from all many corners and circles , have piqued my interest in the movie . However , I was apprehensive as well , because by virtue of it being a fantasy like fairy tale , I suspect it was not up my alley , given my lack of sustainable interest dur... |
514,997 | 317,399 | 457,433 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Perfect Stranger | Perfect Stranger is far from perfect , and this is yet another classic example of the marketers taking the source material , and letting their own imagination run wild to get bums on seats . Bruce Willis in a seedy role , and Halle Berry oozing sex appeal with assets spilling out of her dress ? That's what the trailers... |
515,188 | 317,399 | 256,103 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Intimacy | Picture your life this way if you can : You are a regular bloke . You work as a bartender in a pub . Your wife has left you and has custody over your two kids . Your friends are a gay and a totally whacked out stoner . The only thing you look forward to , is the afternoon of Wednesdays . That's when an annonymous femal... |
515,156 | 317,399 | 409,285 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Gaze of Michelangelo | This is possibly the final short film of Michelangelo Antonioni , starring as himself as well as he seeks out his the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo's statue of Moses at the Churce of St Pietro in Rome . Basically it's a piece which has the camera lingering on extreme close ups of the statue , covering every ... |
514,923 | 317,399 | 349,903 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Ocean's Twelve | I got mixed feelings watching the film . It's supposed to be a heist flick , but doesn't feel that way . On the other , it's fun to watch the big name stars hamming it up on screen having a great time . One of the best parts is when Julia starts to play herself , and the cameo by Bruce Willis as himself is a hoot Other... |
515,209 | 317,399 | 437,863 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : The Benchwarmers | The main reason why I would want to go watch a movie like this , which I'd bet 95 % of the movie-going audience would prefer to avoid , is actually to check out what it's done to its premise . You see , a group of friends and I had an idea which we wanted to short-film , and the trailer for The Benchwarmers was so stri... |
515,172 | 317,399 | 449,010 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Eragon | I'm not sure why many have cited this to be yet another epic fantasy movie in the mould of Lord of the Rings , or even Harry Potter . Perhaps it's the release date , given that all make it to the silver screen toward the end of the year . However , given that the story is based on a novel written by a sixteen year old ... |
514,770 | 317,399 | 460,749 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : The Coffin | Director Ekachai Uekrongtham reunites with actor Ananda Everingham to move from the red light district of Singapore's Geylang back to Thailand to partake in the bizarre Thai ritual of having oneself laid in a coffin to get rid of bad karma . It seems that all the karma in the world are on a zero sum equation , and what... |
515,363 | 317,399 | 499,556 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Rogue Assassin | War undergoes one of those unnecessarily title changes for this part of the world , naming itself after Jet Li's assassin character Rogue . Billed as " The Ultimately Martial Arts Duel of the Year " , the person who wrote that blurb for Rogue Assassin obviously hasn't seen many movies , or martial arts ones for that ma... |
515,037 | 317,399 | 979,951 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Things We Do When We Fall in Love | The second part of James Lee's love trilogy , Things We Do When We Fall in Love is more of the same . If you're frustrated with the presentation of the first , then my advice is not to bother with the second , even though the stories are not linked . For me , I thought the colour made it slightly more bearable , but if... |
514,517 | 317,399 | 382,810 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : ( SIFF ) Little Fish | I was drawn into the movie because of the cast , a powerhouse trio in Cate Blanchett , Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill . Other than that , the story took a while before it became interesting , and the pace was somewhat too slow for me . Telling the story of an ex-dug addict Tracy Heart ( Blanchett ) , it brings to mind the ... |
515,453 | 317,399 | 770,752 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Fool's Gold | Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson paired up in a chick flick some 5 years back in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days , with the latter making the former fall in love with her , and then having to shrug him off as part of a social experiment , only to find herself really loving him instead . In Fool's Gold , our couple reun... |
515,365 | 317,399 | 897,361 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : I Know Who Killed Me | Maybe because it's Lindsay Lohan's way of telling the cinematic world she's grown up now and would like to be cast in more mature roles , with her taking on dual characters here as all American rich girl next door Aubrey Fleming , and white trash stripperella Dakota Moss . Like Anne Hathaway before her who had shed her... |
514,387 | 317,399 | 369,441 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Fun with Dick and Jane | This is a remake of a 1977 comedy of the same name , an update of the same premise of your happily married couple who found themselves in debt and having to rob in order to pay the bills . Starring Jim Carrey ( who produced this movie ) and Tea Leoni , they're Dick and Jane Harper , who are living the American dream , ... |
515,490 | 317,399 | 433,817 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : The Absent | This is the latest in a slew of Euro movies to make it to our shores here , promoted as a mystery thriller because of the faux-pas sense of sophistication from everything European . To its credit , it does keep you guessing . As the premise goes , a serene family of four moves into the suburbs , only for Julia ( Ariadn... |
515,087 | 317,399 | 369,436 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Four Christmases | I can't help but to chuckle at how Brad ( Vince Vaughn ) and Kate ( Reese Witherspoon ) got busted on national television no less , for having everyone whom they have lied to , see exactly where they are - at the airport trying to get to their vacation destination rather than accepting the invitation from their familie... |
515,033 | 317,399 | 816,437 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Bloody Tie | Bloody Tie was my last movie for this year's Singapore International Film Festival , and although it's an action movie , I thought it ended my festival this year with a whimper rather than with a bang . Set in the time of the IMF ( not the Mission Impossible one ) making loans to a South Korean economic collapse , the ... |
515,065 | 317,399 | 1,023,111 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Never Back Down | Donnie Yen's recent Flash Point provided action movie fans a glimpse of Mixed-Martial Arts , or MMA , where the best of breed techniques in taking down an opponent get gelled together to provide unpredictability in offensive and defensive response , coupled with the transformation of almost every part of the body into ... |
514,820 | 317,399 | 843,302 | 5 | A Nutshell Review : Retribution | Retribution , punishment that is considered to be morally right and fully deserved . And for those who , like myself , have not gotten warned enough from writer-director Kyoshi Kurosawa's earlier duds like Loft , watching Retribution is retribution enough for not heeding that warning with its red light flashing from a ... |
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