CinemaShafiq

  I am at the moment is in a marathon, 1 film per night - to finally watch all of the films directed by great filmmakers - Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Ridley Scott and Stanley Kubrick. I purposely hold myself off from watching a lot of their films as I planned to watch them after I have been through this long film-watching passion that I started back in 2014. It's as if I am savoring the best for the last. With that being said, the first director that I will finish first is Scorsese. And I have watched his other popular works like Goodfellas, The King of Comedy and Shutter Island, but Kundun is one of the ones that I have not watched. So, was it good? And thus, Scorsese remains my no. 1 film director and the dude can not only do crime movies, but religion too. Not only Catholic, but Buddhism as well. I love The Last Temptation of Christ and Silence, and while Kundun might not be as good as these two, I still think this film is so underrated. 8/10 

  I watched Bird Box the other day and many reviews said that it's reminiscent of  The Happening. I watched it and oh man I hate this movie to the core. It's so terrible, there's no aspect in which this film was redeemable and even Mark Wahlberg himself hated it. Shyamalan has no right to cover his failure by saying that he intended to make it as a high-budgeted B-movie. Nope. Bird Box was better than this. 3/10 

  A film that was not only a good thriller that kept you on edge, but also a film that would inspire a whole new subgenre (computer screen film).  More John Cho in Hollywood, please. He's a good actor and probably the only reason for me to watch Netflix's Cowboy Bebop. 8/10

  VHS is back, baby. VHS is probably the most underrated horror franchise and I personally like it and found it to be more entertaining and creepier than these other horror franchises with millions of budget. VHS 94 was not as good as V/H/S 2, and there were segments that I found to be mediocre, but there's still also good segments and 94 felt fresh and a good revival for the franchise. Beware for Raatma. 6/10

  At this point they should've just bazooka Michael Myers. I love Halloween 2018 but the second movie of this new Halloween trilogy felt like a filler in a TV series, there's no direction and coherent story. It also relied too much on nostalgia factors. They should've just make it a 2-movie story instead a trilogy. Still, Michael Myers is as badass & terrifying as ever 😩👌🏻 Michael is the OG of horror/slasher icons and none of the modern killers/ghosts can beat his creepiness & brutality. Michael kills everyone and he doesn't discriminate. There's some cool shots of Michael killing scenes & also some new creative kills, so there's that. But besides watching Michael standing and walking menacingly, there's nothing much. 5/10

  A fresh, intense and well-written series. It's been a while since I watched a series that got me real hooked and just makes me binge-watching it till the end.  There's some comments saying that this series was not original and it was ripping off The Hunger Games, Battle Royale or Alice in Borderland. In my opinion, it's common for a modern film/series to be inspired from other works, just as long as it didn't rip it off 100%.  Squid Game also had a very fresh & unique set and costume design as well as good scores. The characters were also well written, and you'll be hooked to 1 or 2 of them, and this depends on each viewer.  It seems like just as Netflix were doing great original Hollywood contents back in 2015 (Daredevil, Stranger Things), now they're doing the same thing with the Korean market (Squid Game, Kingdom). This is great and hopefully there'll be more coming from Netflix Korea. 8/10 

  It was a good fun time and a well-fitting film to celebrate the reopening of cinemas. And I like the fact that this is probably one of the few recent Ryan Reynolds' film that got his typical-sometimes-annoying Deadpool's quippy jokes controlled and reduced.  The premise of a film involving a gaming world or a character realising that he's not real has been done a lot before, but this film still managed to be fresh, fun and enjoyable. 7/10 

Finally got around to watch this, and I gotta say it was much better than I expected. A good coming of age/teen comedy film with a lot of realistic elements and heatwarming on its core. I can relate a lot to what Lady Bird was going through even though I'm a guy and this film also unexpectedly was pulling my heartstrings at times. Greta Gerwig is definitely one of the fresh talented filmmaker for our generation and I'm looking forward for Little Women next. 7/10