[2015.01.28] FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 25 2015

For the week ending January 25 2015

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10 BOYHOOD
    d. Richard Linklater
    Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke

 9 BIG HERO 6
    d. Don Hall, Chris Williams
    Disney Animation
    English Voices: Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney,
      T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez

 8 TAKEN 3
    d. Olivier Megaton
    Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace,

 7 S FOR SEX S FOR SECRETS
  AKA : S FOR SECRET S FOR SEX
  Can : Siu Jeh Yau Sum
  Lit : Miss Tempting Heart
    d. Jil Wong Pak Kei
    Annie Liu (Lau Sum Yau), Pakho Chau, Jacquelin Chong Si Man,
      Jeana Ho Pui Yu, Jessica C, Kabby Hui Nga Ting,
      Elva Ni (Ngai Sun Hei), Meiki Wong,
      Dada Lo Chung Chi, Philip Keung Ho Man,
  Rating : IIB
  Length : 100 mins.
  Opening January 15 2015

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
  Po and Hung have been married for just one year. They are supposed to live a happy marriage life like a honeymoon. However, their sex life is not going well. The couple seeks solutions respectively but it only causes more conflicts and contradictions in between them.

  Sze Wing and Kwok Bon have been married for years, and they are considered the marriage role models in the business, entertainment and celebrity world. But what people do not know is that Kwok Bon is a sex addict. While Sze Wing is frustrated about Kwok Bon's issue, a young suitor gets in between the couple...

  The stories depicted by these two couples are utterly different, but the issues they deal with happen to every couple in reality.

 6 BLACK HAT
    d. Michael Mann
    Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei, Wang Leehom

 5 WOMEN WHO FLIRT
  Can : Sat Giu Nui Yun Jui Ho Ming
  Lit : Flirting Women Have The Best Lives
    d. Pang Ho Cheung
    Zhou Xun, Huang Xiaoming, Sonia Sui, Hsieh Yi-Lin)
  Rating : IIA
  Length : 97 mins.
  Opening January 1 2015

[ CINEMA ONLINE MALAYSIA ]
  Zhou Xun plays Zhang Hui, a girl with a crush on her classmate Xiao Gong, played by Huang Xiaoming. However, family pressure causes him to focus more on studies and not on her. After graduation, she finds work in Shanghai to stay close to him. Things go south when he returns from a trip to Taiwan with a new girlfriend, Bei Bei. Zhang Hui gets help from her friends and learns the art of flirting to win back her man.

 4 BIRDMAN
    d. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
    Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton,
      Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts

 3 PARASYTE
  Can : Gei Sun Sau
  Lit : Parasitic Beast
    d. Takashi Yamazaki
    Shota Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto, Tadanobu Asano
  Rating : IIB/III
  Length : 110 mins.
  Opening January 22 2015

[ THE FILM CATALOGUE ]
  One night by the seaside, tiny creatures or "Parasytes" arrive on Earth to take over human bodies and prey on human kind. One Parasyte latches on to a regular high schooler, Shinichi but he prevents it from completely taking over his mind and body and instead it has to start a reluctant existence in his right arm. Shinichi cannot reveal his terrible secret to those around him, and during this time of stalemate, a feeling almost of friendship develops between him and the creature he calls "Migi" ("Righty"). Before long, they begin to encounter other Parasytes which launch savage attacks against them and put the life of his childhood friend, Satomi in danger...

  Then things take a sudden turn for the worse. Shinichi's beloved mother is killed and taken over by a Parasyte. When the creature launches an attack on him, he has no choice but to kill her. It becomes all-out war. Parasytes kill humans and humans kill Parasytes in return. But nothing is black and white in this struggle. Among the Parasytes themselves, various factions and different points of view, develop. Shinichi's new teacher, Ryoko Tamiya, although infected with a Parasyte, tolerates Shinichi. On the other hand, the character Goto, a composite "person" made up of a number of cooperating Parasytes is bent on human destruction. Collectively the Parasytes begin to ask themselves the question, "Why were we created?"

  In a world that humanity has continued to despoil and destroy, is it that the Parasytes are here to cull our numbers? Of course the humans continue to kill Parasytes in order to survive.

  Which is it that ought to win? The planet needs to be preserved yet it is in our nature to protect our loved ones. Amidst this conflict of values, Shinichi and Migi have no choice but to hurl themselves into the fight against the ever more complex attack of the Parasytes.

 2 INTO THE WOODS
    d. Rob Marshall
    Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden,
      Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp

 1 AMERICAN SNIPER
    d. Clint Eastwood
    Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner