This Uncertain Feeling: The End of Love (2015) Review

Directed by Eric Hsu (Hsu Li Da) Screenplay by Eric Hsu (Hsu Li Da) What is it that we know about love? This is the question that begs to be known in Hsu Li Da’s second feature film The End of Love. We follow the lives of four contemporary couples at the beginning and or at the brink of their love lives. The key here … Continue reading This Uncertain Feeling: The End of Love (2015) Review

Old SoulSeptember 27, 2015Leave a comment

Indie, IndieFilipino, Movies, The 500 Film Challenge

Notes on ‘Taklub’ (2015)

Lou Veloso’s character in Brillante Mendoza’s film that’s been making waves in both local and international film circuits for almost over a year now is only a blithe example of how experience can get you a remarkable performance. Whether it’s to present how unimaginable a situation is for a small character as his ‘Mang Renato’ in Taklub or how his portrayal can manage to swim along the … Continue reading Notes on ‘Taklub’ (2015)

Old SoulSeptember 25, 2015Leave a comment

Music

Slippery Slopes – Jenny Lewis

I am still into you, dreams really do come true I feel it everywhere, even in my red hair Continue reading Slippery Slopes – Jenny Lewis

Old SoulSeptember 25, 2015September 25, 2015Leave a comment

Books to Movies, The 500 Film Challenge, The Good Stuff

The Quaint Reimagination of ‘Mr Holmes’

MR. HOLMES opens to a soft, glowing view of the English countryside rather than the gloomy mood of Baker Street in London from where the popular detective resides. The film is based on a novel by Mitch Cullin called ‘A Slight Trick of the Mind’ eighty-eight years after Sherlock’s final appearance in his maker Arthur Conan Doyle’s His Last Bow. I have a problem with reimagined … Continue reading The Quaint Reimagination of ‘Mr Holmes’

Old SoulSeptember 24, 2015Leave a comment