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Bohemian Rhapsody was a good biopic of Queen and Freddie Mercury. Of course the best outtake of this film was on its casting; Rami Malek did his best to embody Freddie Mercury and the other casts were eeriely similar looking to the original Queen members. This film covers the story of Queen on every events; their formation, to the years of Freddie leaving them, to the day of their historic performance on Wembley Stadium in 1985. The good thing about this biopic was that it did not only show the good things about Freddie, it told all aspects of his life, addressing his sexuality and how he used to treat his band members. This film delivered these aspects in a way that we can empathise with Freddie, so that's good. If you are a fan of Queen, or a music fan generally, you will enjoy the moments when Queen songs were played in the film. The Wembley Stadium scene was the best arc of this film, as you'll feel like singing and clapping along with the movie.

Halloween was definitely a movie that suprised me this year. It was unexpectedly good and it served the franchise's fans and regular moviegoers as well. Now, Halloween franchise is a legend amongst other horror franchises as its first film was out back in 1978 and it's the one to start the slasher horror genre and inspire many upcoming slasher films after that such as Scream . Halloween has had 12 movies in its franchise and this new one totally abandons all the previous sequels and it serves as a sequel to the original 1978 film. This is totally fine and brilliant as the previous sequels were too cheesy and they made Michael Myers silly. However, this latest installment totally respects Michael Myers and Laurie, played by the legendary Jamie Lee Curtis. It has been 40 years, and she's geared up to prepare against Michael. What surprised me about this new film is that how it totally respects the original film, it gives the same vibes as the OG one, and it

Man.. I don't know. Okay look, I might not be the most hardcore Potterhead among my friends but that does not mean I cannot review this film for the sake of it being a.. film. I watched all Harry Potter movies and even the first Fantastic Beasts and I would say Harry Potter franchise is one of the biggest film franchise in league with Star Wars and Lord of The Rings. However, Fantastic Beasts 2 didn't do it for me. It was muddled, messy and too convoluted. They hyped us for Grindelwald and Dumbledore and yet they focused on a super-complicated storyline of a family lineage of a certain character. Look, it's not wrong to take that as an aspect of your movie's storyline, but it is a MAJOR problem if it was the only conflict that exists. Plus this isue was not because I am a not big Potterhead, because even amongst the fans themselves, this puzzle plotline was too messy and convoluted. The pacing was so slow and there were just too many characters. Remove

What went wrong? Solo: A Star Wars Story is the fourth Star Wars movie by Disney, and the 10th Star Wars movie in total (not counting the 2008's Clone Wars movie). Considering how Disney never failed to impress with their other Star Wars products, which at least had made USD1 billion mark in the worldwide release, sadly, Solo is far from reaching this minimum threshold. After a month of release, Solo made only $344 million, worldwide . That was a major setback and downfall for Disney. Their non-stop success with their products, especially the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and Star Wars movies, should ensure their non stop money-raking movies trend. But Solo fell far from the 1 billion mark. It could not even rake $500 million. So, what went wrong? When Solo was announced, I was curious on how would they tackle the movie as fans would only relate the legendary character Han Solo to Harrison Ford and we know that Ford, already decided to stop appearin

I watch more Hollywood movies than any other movies. I guess for most movie lovers, it's the same case as Hollywood dominates the film industry more than any other country. I do, however, has some passion on other movies, such as the Bollywood movies, and Japanese movies (which I am not ashamed to admit, mostly are tokusatsu or anime related). How about my local films? Malaysian movies? Well, I don't know, man. If you are a Malaysian or if you follow Malaysian cinema scene, it can be seen that it is not triumphant. It is not a money-making machine like Hollywood, or not even in terms of producing good, high quality films like Japan, Italy or Frence. Most films released here are in Malay language, catered for Malay audiences, and most of them are, I would say, not good. In terms of production value, as well as the films' messages as well. But I guess the scene is changing now. Back in 2011, when I was in Form 4, I was really into local cinema scene. I followed

    It went without saying that this year's most anticipated movie is none other than Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War . Thanos is finally here and all our heroes are assembling to beat him down. I, myself, just like millions of people around the world, comic book movie lovers or non, am having such a big anticipation towards the premiere night of this movie. It says 27th of April but thank God I already booked my ticket on 26th. Gonna watch it in IMAX 3D, the best treatment a movie watching experience can get. The last time I watched a movie on this format is for Star Wars: The Last Jedi . Talking about Infinity War itself, what I am anticipating the most to see in this movie is how the Russo brothers, the directors, are going to play around with the huge amount of casts in regards of the storytelling. For sure, not all characters are going to get huge amount of spotlight in this movie. The Guardians of The Galaxy gang, for an example, I bet would have an important role