Birdman (2014): A Lovely Confusion

Still piling up Babel in my movie collection, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came with Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). This is probably too late to say something about the movie, nevertheless I need to do it. Prepared for so long, even to perfect the idea, no wonder that the movie can catch my soul …

Three Days to Forever (2007): A Journey to Maturity

Two young people are riding to Yogyakarta from Jakarta while discussing life and experiencing some interaction with outsiders. They tell about each other’s life and things they never really shared before. Ambar and Yusuf are cousins. Yusuf gets a task to carry special porcelains of Ambar’s mom for midho dareni ritual before Ambar’s sister marriage …

Due Date (2010): Entertaining and Annoying

Watching Robert Downey Jr. in comedy movie was such a new thing for me when I found out about this movie. With Zach Galifianakis as the other main character, this movie seemed weird. However, it turns out to be a quite normal movie with normal roles. Downey Jr. as Peter is an architect, with nice, …

Big Fish (2003): To the Next Level of Trust

Probably some movie addicts can define Tim Burton’s movie without looking to the credit title. Dark, gloomy and eccentric. Somehow I found all that in most of his movie. Do not leave out weird looking creatures mingling with human. Big Fish, movie based on a book by Daniel Wallace, was actually the very first movie …

An American Crime (2007): An Unexpected Ending

What will you hope more if it’s Ellen Page’s movie? I don’t. I love her in all, as an actress so far. I never know this movie before but after I looked through some crime cases, I found this movie. Because actually the movie is based on actual crime and murder by Gertrude Baniszewski and …

Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever (2011): Beautiful Coincidence Presented

Love loves coincidence is the meaning of this movie. Whatever you watch in movie is surely a manmade, but all that artificial creation always has something better than the others, this one I classify into them which are considered better. Ozgur and Deniz were born in the same day and same hospital. Later they were …

The Perks of Being A Wallflower (2012): IMDb Doesn’t Lie

Logan Lerman has changed my view on him. Sorry Logan, but I was really confused why my classmates in high school were crazy about you during Percy Jackson time. Being a ‘nerdy’ in this movie, at first just makes me feel fine to see you as the main cast. But slowly as the movie goes …

Miracles in Cell No. 7 (2013): The Funny Tearjerker Movie

We often see the small or even big injustice around. Many movies have presented it and Miracle in Cell No. 7 also has its way to tell story of injustice for them who are good but powerless. Stop saying you cry to see movie with best love couple, I love other couple relation in movie …

Lilies of the Field (1963): The Beauty of Black and White

To know Sidney Poitier is already a blissful thing for me. I don’t mean I know him in a situation where I meet him, but simply just like a movie viewer who knows an actor. It will be even more blissful if I can meet him in person. In my eyes, he is the part …

Tentang Dia (2005): Let The Past Go

You may not believe someone, but if you don’t believe in someone who loves you, it is betrayal. –Rudi   Once, I remember how much I loved the main soundtrack of this movie, but soon I realize I never really watched the movie. I love the main actress here, without really knowing the real story …