Written by Shalyn Thong
Edited by Trey Seah

Meet Mr Garon DeSilva, or rather, you would already have met him when he came down spe­cially yes­ter­day to share about his work. He’s an Executive Producer of cre­ative ser­vices at HBO asia. It’s a fancy title. What he does basi­cally is pro­duce short pro­mo­tional mate­r­ial for HBO.

Written by Parveen Kaur

The final movie of the epic Harry Potter series has come to the cin­e­mas, yet, Harry Potter fans in Indonesia are deprived of the chance to catch it. Enraged Indonesian movie-lovers cast hexes and curses on their gov­ern­ment over yet another missed film.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which had its world pre­mier on Thursday in London, is most likely not going to be screened in Indonesian cin­e­mas due to the drawn-out tax dis­pute between the US stu­dios and the Indonesian government.

Febry Lumbantoruan, a Potter fan expressed his anger and frus­tra­tion on the gov­ern­ment for being neg­li­gent towards the pleas that many Indonesian movie-lovers had put forward.

“How much longer do we have to wait to watch qual­ity movies in Indonesia?” the 30-year-old human resources offi­cer told AFP.

Harry Potter movies have brought their magic into Indonesia, where thou­sands of Potter fans play the wiz­ard sport of Quidditch on Twitter and cast charms and spells on one another on Facebook. What’s more? Fans even enrol them­selves in wiz­ard schools!

Indonesians, just like many other Potter fans world­wide, have been eagerly await­ing the con­clud­ing chap­ter of the Potter series where they would be mes­mer­ized by the explo­sive bat­tle between Harry Potter and the dark forces of Lord Voldemort.

Written by Nishanthini

Edited by Sean Koh

I will start off by say­ing that Memento is very eas­ily cat­e­go­rized as a non-linear nar­ra­tive, mean­ing it’s events are not shown in chrono­log­i­cal order. We begin the movie in clas­sic Film Noir style, with a mur­der. This scene is the only scene in the movie actu­ally shown in reverse and in slow motion. The fol­low­ing scenes in Memento are shown alter­nat­ing between two sep­a­rate sequences, one shown in black and white, and the other one in colour.

Written by Dennis Lam

www.variety.com/article/VR1118039369

sg.news.yahoo.com/angry-birds-movie-055600161.html

As many of you should know, Angry Birds is a game cre­ated by Rovio. Its game­play involves launch­ing ani­mated birds at struc­tures made of blocks with the aim of tak­ing them and the green pigs within down with a cat­a­pult. Angry Birds has been down­loaded more than 250 mil­lion times since its debut in 2009. 

Now this indis­putably well-received game is going to be trans­formed into a fea­ture film. David Maisel, for­mer chair­man of Marvel Studios and exec­u­tive pro­ducer of many movie hits like “Iron Man” and “Thor”, has put this into works.

Rovio has bought over Finnish ani­ma­tion stu­dio Kombo which has already begun work­ing on a series of short films involv­ing the Angry Birds char­ac­ters, lead­ing to the fea­ture film itself.

However, will this fea­ture film be a mas­sive hit like the game? 

Written By Parveen Kaur 

Edited by Sean Koh 

Pixar Studios

Pixar, one of the most suc­cess­ful stu­dios on the planet, which has pro­duced a dozen prof­itable fea­ture films, is cel­e­brat­ing its 25^th birthday!

Originally known as George Lucas’ com­puter graph­ics divi­sion when it was first intro­duced in the 1980s, the com­pany took off after Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Inc., pur­chased it in 1986 and named it “Pixar”.

Written by Lim Lin Feng

Edited by Sean Koh 

Just for it’s superb Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) alone, Transformers 3 deserves at the very least a good pass. But throw in the inge­nious plot, excel­lent screen­play and delight­ful cast, and we got our­selves a high distinction.

Ingenious plot? How can the movie of a well known ani­mated series have any inge­nu­ity when the sto­ry­line is more or less known to most? Well, we may know or can expect that there will be an even­tual happy end­ing, but what we don’t know are the lit­tle ups and downs nor the unex­pected round­abouts scat­tered ran­domly through­out the movie. Everything and every­one, even the lovely Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, played a part in this exhil­a­rat­ing expe­ri­ence of a film, and not just with her good looks.

When I first heard that a movie adap­ta­tion of this book was going to be made, I was filled with appre­hen­sion. I am a strict believer of the quote “Don’t judge a book by its movie” but after watch­ing the trailer, I must say I have high hopes.

Be warned though, I per­son­ally think the trailer shows too much of the plot.

One Day– The offi­cial trailer

The story revolves around two peo­ple, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew who meet a day after their grad­u­a­tion and the rest of the movie will show the progress of their rela­tion­ship– or lack thereof– for the next twenty years on the anniver­sary of the day they met– 15^th July.

There is def­i­nitely some­thing refresh­ingly fresh and real­is­tic, yet depress­ing at the same time about the book and I am sure it will show well in the movie. Scenes shown on the trailer are pretty much accu­rate to the book, even to minor details like Emma Morley’s blue dress in which she wore for her ex-roommate’s wedding.