Monday, November 28, 2011

Millennium Actress (千年女優)

This narrates about a life of an actress. Though the story is a bit dragging in the middle, it has a good wrap up of the story. image credit A director named Genya Tachibana is doing a documentary of the life of Chiyoko Fujiwara, who was a famous actress during her time.  He found her in a remote place, far from any contact with the outside world. Before they could start the interview a mild earthquake occurred and Chiyoko thought it was a good way to start the interviewed as she was...

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Toy Story 3

image credit   The film began with a playback of some of Andy's playtime with his toys as a kid. But the present time shows that he is all grown up and will be going off to college, and his Mom is asking him what his going to do with his toys. As he was very fond of them, he does not wish to part with his toys and decide to  place them in a trash bag and keep them in the attic, unfortunately, when he left the trash bag at the door of his room, his mom thought they were to...

Friday, November 18, 2011

Sword of the Stranger(ストレンヂア 無皇刃譚)

Image credit This is definitely a samurai film, the anime timeline is Sengoku Era. A prophecy, made a life of a little boy in danger,  chased by the government, he met a stranger while hiding, and lucky for him that he did as the Ming soldiers found out his hiding place, and he needed someone to defend him from the skilled swords men. How is the boy linked to the prophecy? Who is the stranger? And will he helped him? The motion of the characters are really fluid, try not to blink...

Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Borrower Arrietty (借りぐらしのアリエッティ)

picture credit This film is based on the book The Borrowers by Mary Norton a British writer. A young boy was taken in by his Aunt due to his heart condition, he was to stay with his aunt till the operation can take place, to make sure he is well taken care of. As his mother was very busy at work. On the first day of his arrival in his Aunt's place he noticed the cat was curious about something, but before the cat could find out, a crow dive in and peck him. So made the cat leave his interest....

Saturday, November 5, 2011

King of Thorn (いばらの王)

A journey in the dream state that became a reality. In the year 2012, December 12, a virus called Medusa was spreading on earth, it will infect a human being for a time and when incubation period ends, it will start to petrify the host after 12 hours, there is no known cure and death is certain for those who are infected. In order to save humanity an organization know as the Venus Gate created a temporary solution, they found that if an individual was put in sleep and stored in a cool place...

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Cars 2

picture credit Shiny cars can still dazzle you in this movie and the espionage theme only makes it more exciting. The film opens with a boat on a sea, carrying a car named Finn, which we later see is a British secret agent. He secretly boards an oil rig in the middle of the ocean, owned by Professor Zundapp. To spy on something which is being discussed on board, while taking a closer look, he was discovered and a chase ensues to capture him, yet he manage to escape with the aid of his gadgets. Back...

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