Another week, another episode of Thoughts on Films! This week, Fikri and Muz take a belated look at their top ten films of last year in Cerita Carta, before…taking a look at their ten most anticipated films coming up in 2014! Of course, by the time this episode is out, things could be very different, but hey…the timing’s very Malaysia for the world’s only film podcast in Bahasa Malaysia!

Cerita Carta – Top Ten Films of 2013

• ‘KIL’ by Nik Amir Mustapha, and you can download our very first episode of the podcast here, where we banged on about the film. Check out our review of the film, too
• ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’ by JJ Abrams, a part of which we talked about in the fifth episode of the podcast
• ‘Elysium’, starring Matt Damon. Since you’re here, check out ‘Alive in Jo’burg’ by Neill Blomkamp
• We also banged on about ‘Before Midnight’ in the second episode of the podcast, while Muz described walking the ‘Before Sunset’ path in episode six
• ‘The Great Gatsby’, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Baz Luhrmann
• By the way, the song Fikri was talking about was ‘Together’ by The xx
• ‘Warm Bodies’, starring Nicholas Hoult and directed by Jonathan Levine
• ‘Wreck-it Ralph’, starring Sarah Silverman and John C. Reilly, and directed by Rich Moore
• ‘The World’s End’, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and directed by Edgar Wright
• ‘Gravity’, starring Sandra Bullock and directed by Alfonso Cuaron
• ‘Psiko: Pencuri Hati’, starring Bront Palarae and Sharifah Amani, and directed by Nam Ron

Cerita Carta – Ten Most Anticipated Films of 2014

• ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’, starring Chris Pine and directed by Kenneth Branagh
• ‘Robocop’, starring Joe Kinnaman and directed by Jose Padilha
• ‘In What City Does It Live?’, directed by Liew Seng Tat, who made ‘Flower in the Pocket’
• ‘Take Me To Dinner’, directed by Gavin Yap who appeared in the films ‘Relationship Status’ and ‘Cuak’
• ‘Nota’, starring Maya Karin and Hans Isaac, and directed by Yasu Tanaka. We interviewed one of the producers, Bea Tanaka, some time ago
• ‘The Raid 2: Berandal’, starring Iko Uwais and directed by Gareth Evans. A sequel to the first film which we reviewed here, and discussed with Diaz Hernawan in this episode
• ‘Captain America: Winter Soldier’, starring Chris Evans and directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
• ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’, starring…well, everyone who ever acted in the X-Men films ever, and directed by Bryan Singer
• ‘Hercules’, starring Dwayne Johnson and directed by Brett Ratner
• ‘Bikin Filem’, starring Bront Palarae and directed by Nik Amir Mustapha

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