(500) Days of Summer begins with the narrator describing Tom Hansen’s belief system, “The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he’d never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie ‘The Graduate’….” I love this movie because Tom Hansen has the same belief system as I do.  And just like Tom, when someone showed any indication of liking the exact same thing that I like, …

Part 2 of End of Time was touching and disappointing at the same time.  Spoiler alert of course. David and Bernard gave some strong performances, especially in those quiet scenes without actions!  Those are the meat of the episode!  I also loved that final moment the Master and the Doctor worked together to send the Time Lords back, it was this complex frienemy relationship that make these two character interesting! I also like how the two silly aliens that were pretty much a comic relief in Part 1 is actually incredible …

Spoiler alert……..
Writing about part 1 of a 2 part episode is always difficult because you never really get the full picture of the story.  Part 1 is always consist of setups and cliffhangers.  That is the case here with part 1 of End of Time.  What made this particularly an un even episode is that it is also a Christmas special episode!  We tend to forget that Doctor Who was a family show in all its history and still is one after the revival.  Its Christmas special were always a …

If people are like software, then they would also have newer versions of themselves when it’s time to replace the older self. A closer example that might make it easier to understand is Doctor Who – the Doctor is a Time Lord, and Time Lord can regenerate 13 times. The latest Doctor is the tenth, and his time is ending soon, the eleventh Doctor will replace him.
Of course the Doctor is a fictional character, real human can’t regenerate when they are about to die. My thought is applying the …

A movie 10 years in the making, from the legendary director who brought us Titanic and the Terminator series, a movie that promise it will change how people make movies, can Avatar in any way live up people’s expectation? Luckily for the film, I wasn’t expecting much at all. I guess because the premise of the movie is so familiar – military-industrial vs. nature – that i really questioned can this movie show me anything new, concept-wise? and to my surprise, actually it did!
Before we get to that, …

Continue from the last post, here are the rest of my top 10 albums of 2009:

Waking Up – OneRepublic
OneRepublic has a somewhat distinctive sound among all the bands. There’s a rhythm in their music, , something that without listening to the voice track, you would know it’s their music. Their debut album has a single that was remix by Timberland that really bring that rhythm front and center, and that was, as we all know, their smash hit “Apologize”.  This time around, they have another collaboration with Timberland, …