Year in Review: 2011 Filmgoing Experience
2011. What a number. Also, a good year, in film industry (While still couldn't beat 1999 or 2007 in terms of number of great films released). But this is also a year in which, i, for the very first...
A Prophet
You want to know how to define classic film? For me, it is when it's almost 2 years since you've watched that film and you still couldn't forget the excitement of the experience. You want to relive...
50/50
Nampaknya karena Joseph Gordon Levitt memang dianugerahi wajah yang melas, ia cocok sekali memerankan peran tokoh teraniaya macam Cameron James di 10 Things I Hate About You, Tom Hansen di 500 Days...
Drive
Gosling and Refn at their prime If you're expecting this film would be like Transporter or Fast & Furious, then don't, it'll crash and burn your expectations within 10 seconds. Instead, it'll g...
Top 10 Disappointing Movies of 2011
The English poet Alexander Pope once said "“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” His words are true and should be wisely conceived considerably. But unfortunately...
"The Devil's Double" Potrayal of Madness
Most countries that have been - or are still - savagely tormented with the horrors of dictatorship would probably agree that other than the chief tyrant himself... the dictator's son could be the f...
Rear Window
A Nation Of Peeping Toms - When you have times to waste and a pair of binoculars, what would you do? In 1954 Alfred Hitchcock delivered this film out of the world with John Michael Hayes (screenwri...
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick , siapa yang tak kenal dengan sosok sutradara legendaris yang satu ini? beliau merupakan si jenius film diabad modern ini. Karya-karya yang dibuatnya begitu luar biasa, nyaris sempu...
Warrior
Haunted by a tragic past, an ex-Marine Tommy Riordan ( Hardy ) returns home for the first time in fourteen years. After that, he found an event called "Sparta", the world's biggest $5 million winne...
Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi)
A four hours extravagant epic of love and other things in between, here’s a mini-review of Love Exposure ! Who could have makes a plot about peek-a-panty, cult religion, transgender, psychopath, cr...
Another Earth
Secara kebetulan ada dua karya di ajang festival film tahun 2011 yang mengangkat tema serupa tapi tak sama. Yang pertama adalah Melancholia karya Lars Von Trier yang mengangkat drama dibumbui plot...
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
I’m a pretty huge Tintin fan. Not exactly what you call a Tintinologist, but I grew up reading Tintin and co. and their many adventures across the world, so naturally when I heard there’s going to...