Picture this. It’s our world. But instead of the sea separating land and islands and peninsulas and continents, all there is are great stretches of sand. And on that sand are endless rails, multiple rails,[…]
PASKAL (2018)
So I admit to being hesitant about watching PASKAL. First, I’m not a fan of army themed movies. And second, it’s a local movie, which I tend to stay from due to the over and[…]
The Food that Makes Us: Stories. Recipes. Malaysia. By Foong Li Mei & Szetoo Weiwen
The Food that Makes Us is a lovely book that marries recipes and stories of the people who cook it. Combined with photos captured by my friend Szetoo Weiwen, illustration by Tuan Nini and words[…]
CHIPS (2017)
Fans of the original CHIPS tv series may very well find this movie remake absolutely blasphemous. Personally, I don’t remember it at all, even though I’m sure I’ve watched more than a few episodes growing[…]
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold tells the story of a murder everyone knew was about to happen, didn’t believe it would, and didn’t quite prevent it. The tale is told from the perspective of one[…]
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties is an undoubtedly unusual movie and one that I have no doubt some people will leave, thinking, ‘Wtf did I just watch???’. Thankfully I knew this was based[…]
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back reads very much like one of those fairytales. You know, the kind with A LESSON to learn at the end of the tale. Except this one is written[…]
Masters of Sex, season 2-4
I really enjoyed watching Masters of Sex compared to another tv series taking place in the same era that I just finished wrapping up – Mad Men. Sex research aside, I found the story and[…]
Day of the Dead by Neil Gaiman
Day of the Dead by Neil Gaiman is actually a script for the series Babylon 5. I’ve never actually watched Babylon 5 aside from a few random passing glances many, many years ago, so I[…]
The Explorers Guild volume 1 by Jon Baird & Kevin Costner
Well, that was an epic novel. Half graphic novel and half ‘regular’ novel, The Explorers Guild volume 1 is an undoubtedly ambitious book. If I was to categorize this in some sort of genre, adventure[…]
Mad Men, season 7
It’s my final dose of Don Draper and the rest of the Sterling Cooper clan, and I don’t really have all that much to say about it. It’s not like Mad Men was a series[…]
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Crazy? Some of them. Rich? Filthy. Asians? Absolutely. Crazy Rich Asians is undoubtedly fun to watch, but is it the best thing I’ve ever watched on the silver screen? No. Not by a long shot.[…]
The City & The City by China Miéville
The City & The City by China Miéville is probably one of the most unique books I’ve read in awhile. Yet it is also familiar in the way it unfolds, in the way the story[…]
MacGyver, season 1-2
I wasn’t entirely sure if I wanted to revisit the world of MacGyver with this remake. I mean, I grew up watching the original and it was one of my favourites. How are they going[…]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
First up, can I just say that, overall, I prefered Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation better? However, the fairly extended climax of this movie was definitely by-the-edge-of-your-seat kind of awesome. And, well, Henry Cavill, even[…]
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Here we go again! The songs of Abba are back on the silver screen with Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, featuring a pretty packed cast list who all did their bit to keep the[…]
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
Here’s a couple of things you need to know about Gabriel García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch: It is a difficult book to read. With sentences that run almost as long as a page[…]
The Greatest Showman (2017)
Well that was a breathtaking (and somewhat teary-eyed) fun! Based on the life, ambitions and success of Phineas Taylor Barnum, probably the most famous circus purveyor that ever did live, The Greatest Showman was indeed[…]
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
I read Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express many, many, many years ago, back when I was still in school. It was a classic then just as it is today, and I must admit[…]
The Little Book of Hygge: the Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
As a country consistently ranked as the happiest country in the world, Meik Wiking, a researcher at the Happiness Institute in, where else but Denmark, decided to put together a book on that important concept[…]
Trigger warning by Neil Gaiman
I have mixed feelings about Trigger Warning, and it has nothing to do with the many charming, creepy, scary, intriguing stories contained within its pages. Neil Gaiman’s writing is stellar as always, and there were[…]