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Valentine’s Day {Movie Review}

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It’s like Love Actually, but instead of Christmas, the central occasion is Valentine’s Day. The official plot description goes: “Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine’s Day.” It has a Hollywood star-studded cast and directed by the director of one of the most well-known […]

Avatar, I See You!

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Better late than never, as the saying goes. We finally watched Avatar this afternoon, after AA wondered if it was a rite of passage that one had to go through in life. I myself was wondering what the fuss was all about and agreed that we ought to watch it. So we watched it in […]

The First Movie That Made Me Cry

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… and it’s 20 years later and it still makes me cry. The title of the movie is The Land Before Time. I still remember the scene that caused the most waterworks. Little Foot thought he saw his mom, and he got so excited that he ran to lick her, only to realize that it was […]

Sherlock Holmes {Movie Review}

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Sherlock Holmes is the protagonist of one of my favorite mysteries since I was a child. He was the first world renown detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. I even bought a hardbound compilation of all his stories from a bookstore in Lucky Plaza’s basement. It only cost me S$12. A bloody […]

My Second Movie

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Previously on DeeCoded: I attended “Writing for the Screen: Behind the Writer’s Desk,” a talk given by Singapore’s award-winning directer Wee Li Lin in October. At the end of the session, the director asked the participants if they wanted to volunteer as unpaid extras for her upcoming low-budget feature film so that they could have […]

My First Movie

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“Are you teachers here?” the makeup artist asked me and Wee Kiong as she spritzed hairspray all around my head. “No,” Wee Kiong replied with a laugh. “We’re friends of Li Lin.” I nodded, thinking, wow, who would’ve thought that there would ever come a time when I could agree to such a statement – […]

30 Going on 13

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Tatsie watched the movie 13 Going on 30 tonight. I’ve always loved that movie. It’s a funny, feel-good romance with a good “moral lesson” and Jennifer plays such a convincing 13-year-old trapped in a 30-year-old’s body. Here is the complete synopsis of the movie (I’m too lazy to write my own right now). Jenna was […]

Paris 36 {Movie Review}

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I would like to thank the Singapore 25th French Film Festival for for being in existence and for showing the movie Paris 36 and also Mademoiselles Betchie and Arlyn for inviting me to watch that film with them tonight. It’s only the second French film I’ve seen (the first one being Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie […]

Julie and Julia {Movie Review}

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Julie and Julia was a wonderful movie based on two true stories. Julie is a woman whose life seems to be going nowhere. One night, she and her husband come up with a challenge for her and she decides: “I’ll cook my way through the Julia Child cook book and write a blog about it. […]