I saw this way before ‘Carmen Meets Borat’, and I had half a mind to write a full-blown review of it then. Still, my mind was caught… Read more “Dance With Me – Waltz with Bashir”

A few weeks ago, I had a very short hair-cut. I came back home and my little brother laughed at me and said “WTF, are you trying… Read more “Not Citizen Kane – Terminator Salvation”

We browsed through the festival’s website together, my friend and I. With the proliferation of semi-professional documentaries (always, always shaky camera – painful to my eyes, at… Read more “It’s NICE! – Carmen Meets Borat”

“Sometimes,” so goes the adage, “in order to get to a good line, you have to write a thousand lines that are terrible.” That’s actually more related… Read more “Terminated Salvation? – JCVD”

I spent long and hard, thinking about how to start this particular review. It’s not that the film ‘Pesantren’, or ‘3 Doa, 3 Cinta’ is hard to… Read more “Love, Actually – 3 Doa, 3 Cinta”

I walked into the cinema with my ears ringing. On one side, I was well aware that this film is, thus far, one of the highest grossing… Read more “Hungry For More? – Thirst”

“Delicious,” I thought to myself as I watched the mother cut up the carrots. She was doing so with a fair amount of anger, and sadness both… Read more “Why So Serious? – XXY”

Shooting from a multiple camera perspective, or MCP, can be quite a power trip. I recently experienced it on a short film shoot. Armed with two Sony… Read more “Lesson in Session – The Class”