tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74731992032138794562008-07-30T01:01:02.050-07:00Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-2184343312730433272008-07-21T00:17:00.000-07:002008-07-21T00:55:15.740-07:00

Written by Funn Lim "I do feel because all the attention is now on Heath Ledger flamboyant Joker, Aaron Eckhart may not be given the attention he deserves for an excellent interpretation of this sad pitiful character (Harvey Dent)" SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Released In 2008 Language English The Cast - Character Christian Bale ... Bruce Wayne / Batman Heath Ledger ... The Joker

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-65313167121912078222008-06-18T09:24:00.000-07:002008-06-18T09:39:25.423-07:00

Written by Joanne Lee "It has been dubbed as an Oceans Eleven wannabe – It was a little Pirates of the Caribbean if anything." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Chinese Title 原來愛上賊 Cantonese Name Yuen Loi Ngoi Seung Chaak (Fallen in love with a thief) Released In 2008 No. of Episodes 20 Cast Damian Lau Chung Yan – Jack (Ko Jit) Idy Chan Yuk Lin – Bao Yung Yung Joe Ma Tak Jung – Gong

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Written by Funn Lim "This movie has it all" SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Released in 2008 Produced by Dreamworks Genre Animation - 3D Cast-Character Jack Black ... Po (voice) Dustin Hoffman ... Shifu (voice) Angelina Jolie ... Tigress (voice) Ian McShane ... Tai Lung (voice) Jackie Chan ... Monkey (voice) Seth Rogen ... Mantis (voice) Lucy Liu ... Viper (voice) David

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Written by Funn Lim "I investigate things to complete my knowledge, my complete knowledge makes my thoughts sincere, my thoughts being sincere, my heart is pure" SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS First broadcast in 2007 Produced by NBC, USA Language English as in American English Seasons released Season 1 with 11 episodes. Season 2 is filming and will premiere in October 2008.

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-90872488566590421082008-05-11T21:46:00.000-07:002008-05-11T21:57:06.306-07:00

Written by Funn Lim "Somehow the entire movie comes across as half-baked" SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Released In 2007 Written & Directed By Gareth Lewis (yes Damian Lewis' brother) Cast-Character Damian Lewis ... Milo Kate Ashfield ... Rhiannon Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ... Bjorn Michael Gambon ... Leo Annette Badland ... Martha Aimee Cowen ... Checkout Girl Gwenno Dafydd ... Mrs.

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Written by Funn Lim "What I love about Shutter is the ending. For once a horror movie with an ending that justifies the existence of the spirit and all the evil that befall the lead character." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS IMPORTANT NOTICE This is a review of the original Thai version, not the American remake of the same title released in 2008 with I was told basically the same story

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Written by Funn Lim "My conclusion is whatever Stephen Chow offers, I will accept." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Released In 2008 (1st day of CNY!!) Version The following is a review of the Cantonese version. I always prefer to watch Stephen Chow un-dubbed. Origin Hong Kong I suppose. Director Stephen Chow Writers Stephen Chow (writer) Chi Keung Fung (writer) Cast List Stephen

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-49573506201209029172007-12-28T00:34:00.000-08:002007-12-28T00:50:14.742-08:00

Written by Funn Lim "In fact I find Bowie the actor rather sexy in here and that is rare; in HKTVB there is no sexy. There is mature handsome, playful handsome, irritating handsome but sexy? Not quite and here he was, to me very sexy." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Released In 2006 Chinese title Ying Si Ching Bo For Which I suppose translates to Serious Crime Investigation Bureau

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-19759471002781873792007-12-15T01:40:00.000-08:002007-12-15T01:46:50.583-08:00

Written by Funn Lim "This movie is just too hectic, too many villains, too little coherent storyline to top movie 2 and become a worthy end to the Spiderman franchise, if indeed there won't be a Spiderman 4. What a pity!" SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERSReleased In 2007 Cast-Character Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man / Peter Parker Kirsten Dunst - Mary Jane Watson James Franco - New Goblin / Harry

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-31237035436008645472007-12-15T01:23:00.000-08:002007-12-15T01:33:34.157-08:00

Written by Funn Lim "The moment she (Sienna Miller) spoke, the entire scene was ruined." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERSReleased in 2004 Based on A book with the same title written by J.J. Connolly. Cast-Character Daniel Craig ... XXXX Tom Hardy ... Clarkie Jamie Foreman ... Duke Sally Hawkins ... Slasher Burn Gorman ... Gazza George Harris ... Morty Tamer Hassan ... Terry Colm

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Written by Funn Lim "Daniel Craig is really good at playing a man who is stuck with increasing panic and yet managed to stay outwardly calm but innately he is breaking into pieces." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERSReleased In 2004 Based on A book of the same title by Ian McEwan who I think wrote Atonement, which is of course made into a movie starring the very popular (for reasons I could

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-10220279159081952312007-12-15T00:59:00.000-08:002007-12-15T01:05:07.287-08:00

Written by Bridget Au "TVB has a major problem when it comes to producing profession series – it assumes that everyone who is a doctor/lawyer is rich, speaks English, refer to each other with English names, drive nice cars, go to bars after work everyday, and sleeps with everyone and anyone in their social circle." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERSChinese Title “Miu Sau Yan Sum” (roughly

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-7572996114643040682007-12-15T00:55:00.000-08:002007-12-15T00:59:09.301-08:00

Written by Bridget Au "Aside from the incredibly annoying acting and characters, it would definitely be the childish antics meant to be funny. Some of them are funny if you’re in a silly mood, but to me it was definite overkill and most of it was forced." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Chinese Title “Ngor Dik Ye Maan Lai Lai” (translates to my unreasonable mother-in-law) No. of episodes 20

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Written by Bridget Au "But for being a Korean series that is creatively funny and not a melodramatic, formulaic Korean drama, I give this series four stars." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERSYear 2004 No. of episodes 24 (technically 12 that are broken down into 2 "parts" each) Genre Romantic comedy Cast Shin Dong Wook as Dong-wook Lee Soo Kyung as Soo-kyung Choi Phillip as Phillip Sa Gang

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Written by Funn Lim "A masterpiece and to me perfection." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Year Released 2007 Genre 3D animation, 100% guaranteed by Pixar themselves. Reminder This review is on the English/US version. Cast-Character Taken from IMDB.com Patton Oswalt ... Remy Ian Holm ... Skinner Lou Romano ... Linguini Brian Dennehy ... Django Peter Sohn ... Emile Peter O'Toole ...

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Written by Funn Lim "The one and only reason why this movie ultimately fails. The exclusion of the book ending is the single biggest mistake made in this movie and that to me ultimately killed this movie." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Released In 2007 Based on The 1st of 3 books called His Dark Materials written by Philip Pullman. In US the book's title is The Golden Compass, in the rest

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-30241227967492434062007-12-07T07:39:00.000-08:002007-12-07T08:29:44.567-08:00

Written by Bridget Au "Has there ever been a more overrated series?!" SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Chinese Title "Tong Sum Fung Bo" (literally translates to sweet-centered storm) No. of episodes 40 Year 2007 Cast Lee Si Kei as Ling Hao Ha Yu as Tong Yan Gai (nicknamed Dai Bao) Susana Kwan Kook Ying as Kam Michelle Mai Suit as Ling Lei Moses Chan Ho as Tong Zhi On (nicknamed Dak Dak

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Written by Funn Lim "I made a mistake. His (Moses Chan) entire function in this series is apart from being the stud is to bore us to death. I do not get his character and it is such a pity he did not die a heroic death because at least there is some drama. Everytime he appears I tune off because I know he has nothing of substance to say, to do." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERSReleased In

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Written by Bridget Au "I would rather bathe in iodine and wrestle with porcupines than listen to this actor (Joe Ma) speak one more word of English." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERSChinese Title Jau Dim Fong Wan” (translates to the wind and clouds of hotel) No. of episodes 30 Theme Songs 1. “Beet Kwai Ta” (Don’t Blame Her) – Ron Ng (closing) 2. “Yat Sang But Been” (Never Change for Life)

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Written by Bridget Au "I haven’t been this exasperated with a series' ending since Wong Hei’s character died in Burning Flame II." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERSChinese Title “Tak Wai Hang Dong” (roughly translates to sudden action) No. of episodes 25 Released In 2007 Cast Steven Ma Jun Wai as Jee Ko (Ken) Ron Ng Cheuk Hei as Tong Yat Jun (Leo) Bernice Liu Bik Yee as Wing Kate Tsui Tze

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-67087441680505804682007-11-27T03:52:00.000-08:002007-11-27T03:56:21.624-08:00

Written by Funn Lim "I do recall a conversation with my family when watching this series where my sister said "I am lost with the plot". I said "At least you are lost which meant you once understood it. I havent even got into the plot, never involved with the plot and never even understood the plot to even get lost in it". " SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Released In 2006 Episodes 32

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Written by Bridget Au "Chae Rim is seen in her first comedic role ever, and surprisingly succeeds to a certain extent. Her acting abilities, however, are overshadowed by a seriously mediocre storyline." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Korean Title "Oh! Pil Seung and Bong Soon Young" (the full names of this series' two main characters; 'pil seung' translates to “sure victory”, hence the

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-27078879259204951832007-11-26T08:11:00.000-08:002007-12-01T09:47:14.000-08:00

Written by Joanne Lee "However a bunch of semi-main characters, the ‘good’ ones, were killed and/or tortured throughout the series. Something like 80% of anyone who mattered ended up dead. Good drama, yeah, but the death rate was unnecessarily high." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Chinese Title 劍魔獨孤求敗 Released In 1989 Main Cast Felix Wong Yat-Wah – Lam Hong Maggie Shiu Mei-Kei – Lang Zhi

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-48666785231778711652007-11-25T02:45:00.000-08:002007-11-25T09:44:39.272-08:00

Written by Funn Lim "AVOID THIS MESS AT ALL COST" SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Released In 2006 No. Of Episodes 20 Cast Liza Wang - Sheuk Lan Ge Ge Myolie Wu - Eleven (Sap Yat) Bosco Wong - Ling Mao Chun Shek Sau - Ling Fong Tak Christine Ng - Hao Hao Natalie Wong - Empress Akina Hong - Concubine Gordon Lau - Sap Yat's father And many others Summary A story set in Qing Dynasty

Funn Limfunnlim@gmail.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473199203213879456.post-78638246310843021402007-11-25T02:14:00.000-08:002007-11-25T09:46:30.581-08:00

Written by Funn Lim "More importantly by being paired with Fann Wong and Jeannette Aw again, it meant MediaCorp is ready to give Shaun Chen a second chance after the whole fiasco with Jeanette Aw, MediaWorks, the merger, the sacking and the part time contract." SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS Produced by MediaCorp, Singapore Language Mandarin. Often feels like some Mandarin speech

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