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Just beginning this week with ticket sales is the THIS
Buddhist Film Festival 2012. With the theme of "Open Your Mind",
the film lineup is a mix of thoughtful arthouse films that will satisfy
the cravings of film buffs.
In commercial film, our pick of the week is Iron
Sky, a science
fiction comedy about an invasion of Nazis from outer space and the
defence of the free world by a Sarah Palin lookalike and her team
of ragtag misfits. Made by the same guys who brought us several Star
Trek parody films on YouTube, this is an exercise in rubbishy fun.
In the same vein is Expendables 2, this time reuniting
for laughs ageing action stars. While blowing stuff up, liberating
people from dictators, they also make fun of their action star gimmicks.
If you're a fan of Jean-Claude van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, and Dolph Lungren, here's your
chance to relive the good old days of 80s action movies all over
again.
Reggae music legend Bob Marley gets an Oscar-worthy documentary
in Marley, which capitalises on the fact that almost
everyone who raised him or worked and lived with him are still very
much alive today. Their memories of Bob Marley, set to home videos
of his private and public life, as well as bootlegs of his live concerts — make
for an engaging experience of an intensely gifted and spiritual musician.
Girl in Progress is a smart comedy about a precocious
girl who decides to leave her childhood to grow up fast. What they
didn't tell her is you could be smart for your age but no wiser than
your age — so get
ready to laugh at how every plan she makes in order to be taken seriously
as an adult blows up.
In The Cold Light of Day, there is a shadowy conspiracy
involving something in a stolen briefcase that Henry Cavill should
know about because two of the world's deadliest secret services and
their rogue factions are about to kill him for what he doesn't know.
Hotaru the Movie continues the romantic misadventures of its eponymous
protagonist, an office lady who is an overachiever at work but a
slob at home. So the television serial ended with her marriage? Just
wait till you see her honeymoon!
Till next week,
Vernon Chan
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