Just seen

An interesting movie. It was worth watching in the midst of business, I'd excuse.

Movies on my list

Red Cliff, the movie (2008)


Red Cliff 2, the trailer (2009)


I've heard about this movie long time ago, yet it didn't seem to interest me until my professor talked about it during the seminar dinner yesterday. Let's see if it is the one.

Knowing

Released on March 20, it is another piece of puzzle to be solved by Nicolas Cage.

Getting back home!!!

Released: November 7, 2008

Just seen - Red Eye

H.P. & the 1/2 Blood Prince

Release: November 21, 2008

Too bad that I've lost track at the 4th novel and movie. Gotta get back on the line for sure, at least with the 5th movie before this 6th comes out.

The Tale of Despereaux

A movie about a big-eared mouse with the most bravery of all.
Release: 19 Dec '08

WALL-E

Selling point: robots+romance
Release: June 27

Detective Conan's 12th Movie (2008): Full Score of Fear

CJ7: Stephen Chow's latest comedy

One Missed Call: the remake of "Chakushin Ari"

American Version (2008)


Japanese Version (2004)


To watch the full movie of "Chakushin Ari", click here.

Beowulf: A heroic movie

Just a quick comment on the movie I saw today: Beowulf (ˈbeɪəwʊlf). Animated, the movie presents a mighty hero and then a king in Denmark in AD 507, named Beowulf, who fights with a super-bad-looking demon named Grendel (the former king's son), Grendrel's mother and a golden dragon (his son by Grendel's monther). The film ends by letting Beowulf die in the last fight, leaving the throne to his good subordinate-cum-friend who is left questionable whether or not he would be successfully tempted by Grendel's mother. The movie well reflects the notion that rarely could a hero deny the beauty of a lady and not be seduced by her. Nice movie!!! Yet, really violent (the slaying here and there), quite disgusting (the ugly monster) and very uncensored (the naked Angelina Jolie). My overall comment: B+.

Enchanted (Released on 21 Nov 07)

The tale follows the beautiful princess Giselle as she is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land--and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid--even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home--she has to wonder: can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

Source: Yahoo! Movies. Enchanted (2007). Retrieved on 26 Nov 07

Detective Conan: Japanese Anime Series

Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan (名探偵 コナン: Meitantei Konan) in Japan and other countries, is a detective manga and anime series by Gosho Aoyama which has been published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine since 1994.

The series depicts the cases of a young private detective who was inadvertently turned into a prepubescent boy by a certain criminal organization. Although his body has been shrunk, he continues to solve many cases and is struggling to solve the mysteries of the criminal organization responsible in order to return to his normal body.

>> Main Characters:

Shinichi Kudo/Jimmy Kudo (工藤 新一): A high school detective who was shrunk to his childhood body. He now goes under the alias Conan Edogawa (江戸川 コナン) to protect his identity and the people around him from the people who failed to kill him.

Ran Mouri/Rachel Moore (毛利 蘭): Jimmy's best friend since elementary school. Both are in love with one another but neither had the courage to admit their feelings. She is skilled in the martial arts and is the captain of her karate team, though her resolve can be easily broken if she has to face anything related with the horror genre. She spends most of her home life looking after Conan (whom she does not know is really Jimmy) and her irresponsible father, Detective Richard Moore. She sometimes threatens him with a punch on the table, but is a very genial person.

Kogoro Mouri/Richard Moore (毛利 小五郎): Rachel's father, an incompetent private detective. He's married to Eva Kadan, a successful lawyer and childhood friend. They are now living separately. Despite his irresponsible ways, he appears to care deeply for his daughter, and at times shows some flashes of honor and strict ethics.

Hiroshi Agasa (阿笠 博士): An absent-minded professor who invents several devices to help out Jimmy. His given name is "Hiroshi" in the English manga and "Herschel" in the English anime. He serves as one of the few roles in the story who learns about Conan's true identity and helps the little detective in cases.

Shiho Miyano (宮野 志保): A former member of the crime syndicate under the code name "Sherry" (シェリー, "Sherry"). She was the inventor of APTX 4869, the poison that shrank Jimmy. Shiho betrays the organization after Gin killed her sister, Akemi Miyano. Shiho took the drug in a suicide attempt, but rather than dying, she, like Jimmy, became small. She is taken in by Dr. Agasa and becomes Conan Edogawa's right hand under her alias Ai Haibara (灰原哀,). She shows affection toward Jimmy and is cheered by him as well, but she denies having said feelings.

For other characters, please click here.

Source: Wikipedia. Case Closed. Retrieved on 23 Nov 07.

......Here are series of the anime titled "Confrontation with the Black Organization: Two Mysteries on a Night with a Full Moon", the longest series I've ever seen and am still watching at the moment.