Witness the Tragic Love and Incredible Life of The Lady

Shot under a veil of secrecy due to the sensitive nature of its subject, "The Lady," an inspiring drama based on the life of the Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, has finally finished filming and is ready to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month, also expected to be screened at a number of international film festivals in the fall before widely release in theaters everywhere. Inspired by one of the greatest love stories set against a background of political turmoil that still continues to this day, “The Lady” is the extraordinary story of how Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris gave up their happiness at great cost when the wife's country called upon her. Yet despite

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Summer Reviews: June Movie Recaps

Transformers: Dark of the MoonA little bit better than the ‘messier than all messy stuffs’ previous film but this latest (and one hopes final) effort of Michael Bay to destroy every city in United States with his robotic battalions is still a carnival of metallic special effects on top of everything else. Audiences will likely have enough fun time with the $200 million-dollar tagged full FX action sequences, and in addition to the positive side, this

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Commemorate the Centenary of Jackie Chan and Xinhai Revolution

Jackie Chan movies are often characterized by three things: Exciting martial arts fights, stunts that are not for the faint of heart, and comedy. The world’s most famous martial arts actor, director and stuntman, he is famous for doing most of his own stunts as well as acting in and producing some of the best martial arts action films of all time. Since began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films “Fist of Fury” (1972) and “Enter the Dragon” (1973) to “Drunken Master” that finally propelled him to mainstream success, Chan has both directed and starred in a string of international hits, delivered to

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127 Hours: Compelling Story of Survival and Reflection

Just like “The Fighter”, Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” is also based on a true story which some peoples may already knew how the tale gonna end. But other than that, “127 Hours” would seem a more impossible prospect for a cinematic experience as the focus will

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The Fighter: A Boxing Movie with Oscar Written All Over It

Inspired by the remarkable true-life story of a champion welterweight boxer “Irish” Micky Ward and his erratic brother, Dicky Eklund, a former welterweight whose career was KO’d by crack, director David O. Russell’s affecting sports drama “The Fighter” done really

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Café’s 2010 Best of Western Cinema

Although the year has delivered quite a disappointing summer and pretty indifferent mainstream prospects at movie centre Hollywood, but we were able to pull together a list of our favorite movies of the year. From the mind-bending “Inception” to the movie that may have defined our generation, “The Social Network,” following below in no particular order are the 10 of Movie Cafe's 2010 Best of Western Cinemas. And since tonight we all will celebrate the New Year 2011, above we have prepared our sparkly Singapore Happy New Year card specially to you, all our lovely and awesome readers. We hope 2011 will be a much better future for all of us and for movie industry of course.

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From Gold Coast to the Dangerously Beauty Sanctum

The Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia is no doubt a heaven for many divers, surfers and body boarders. Especially for diver, this is absolutely the best in any Australian city if not the world. Located in the region where the subtropical currents meet the temperate currents, Gold Coast is blessed with

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The Escape was Just the Beginning for The Way Back

The Gulag, whose camps were located mainly in remote regions of Siberia and the Far North, made significant contributions to the Soviet economy in the period of Joseph Stalin. Gulag prisoners constructed the White Sea-Baltic Canal, the Moscow-Volga Canal, the Baikal-Amur main

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Bruce Lee, My Brother: Shed Some Light into The Legend

The biopic of the (early) life of international martial arts phenomenon, “Bruce Lee, My Brother”, is finally arrived on big screen with more drama, more young Bruce and more 50s rock. With the wealth of information available regarding

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Something Beyond Comprehension is Happening in The Rite

In its own feat, “The Exorcist” is one of those horror flicks that you can watch again and again, and be scared each time. When the film was debuted at 1973, few films in the horror genre have received so much attention or acclaim. But “The Exorcist” was quite

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The Genesis Way of the Legendary Dragon

Legend never dies especially Bruce Lee legend is still proving potent for film-makers. As interest in Lee’s movies continues to grow nearly 37 years after his death in 1973, it recently inspired hit films “Ip Man” (葉問) and “Ip Man 2” (葉問2) and “The Legend Is Born: Ip Man” (葉問前傳), an

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When The Fighter Won Something Bigger Than a Championship

There are a lot of great movies which feature boxing. One of the first was “The Champ (1931)” where a terrific actor from the 30's, Wallace Beery, won the Best Actor Oscar while the film itself won Best Writing, Original Story Oscar statuette. “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” from 1941 was

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The Social Network: The Connection is Enjoyable, Witty and Smart

Mark Zuckerberg revealed his opinion of “The Social Network” movie and the book “The Accidental Billionaires” by Ben Mezrich on which the film was based by saying, "The reason why we didn't participate is because it was very clear that it was fiction from the beginning. We

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As Two Men Clash Over The Unstoppable Fate

Leonardo DiCaprio has Martin Scorsese, Russell Crowe has Ridley Scott, and Denzel Washington has Ridley's brother, Tony Scott. What do they all have in common? Absolutely director and actor collaborations that have teamed up numerous times for critical and box office acclaim. Washington and

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The Times Are Numbered In 127 Hours

Do you know that before he’s dedicated his life to film, the first career choice of British director Danny Boyle is to become a priest? At the age of 14, Boyle began to make arrangements to attend a seminary, before a priest warned him against it. "Whether he was saving me from the priesthood or saving the priesthood from me, I don't know. But quite soon after, I started doing drama," said Boyle. Well,

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Overcome The Painful Memory In Aftershock

Though commercially successful with war epic "Assembly" (2007) and period love thriller "The Banquet" (2006), the prolific 52-year-old director Feng Xiaogang is better known for his comedies such as "Cell Phone" (2003), "A World Without Thieves" (2004) and "If You Are the One" (2008), which became the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in Chinese film history. Now, the director is poised to

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Korean War Resurrected Into The Fire

There are not many movies depicting the Korean War, but one film that still consider by many people as the best Korean War movie ever made and also one of the biggest successes in Korean film history, is absolutely “Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War”. Spending US $12.8 million on production, the film earned $68.7 million worldwide to finish as the

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Ip Man 2: Definitely Worth The Wait

This is the week where two action films with an almost similar name are releases into big screen, both are anticipated sequel of its successful predecessor, though one of them is probably more popular in Asian territory. Yes they were “Iron Man 2” and “Ip Man 2”, but if you ask me to compare between them, I would say that “Ip Man 2”, a semi biographical martial arts film as well

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The Blind Side: An Endearing And Inspiring Life Story

A Thanksgiving legitimate box office smash, “The Blind Side” that give the vampire romance “Twilight Saga: New Moon” a run for its money, is a delightful, inspirational story of Baltimore Ravens tackle Michael Oher. The true story which also was based on the 2006 book “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” by Michael Lewis grossed a very strong $34,5 million in its opening weekend. It set the highest-grossing

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See And Remember The Superior Legend of Confucius

Born in 551 B.C., the same time as the Greek philosopher Socrates and the Buddhism founder Siddhartha Gautama, Confucius is one of the most important persons in the history of Chinese philosophy. He was the greatest teacher, philosopher, educator and founder of Confucianism whose theories and principles not only have influenced how the Chinese government has run the country for the past 2000 years, but also

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