adventures in neverland

brad pitt's oscar bait movie fury is indeed furious. you can see it in the way his troop of five shoots, kills and slaughters the enemies -- the germans during the waning days of the second world war. sadly, the film does not offer anything new about war, or its depiction of war. no new insight. no enlightenment. we have seen it all in such war classics (and my favourites too) and better made films such as a bridge too far , enemy at the gates , the brilliant apocalypse now by francis ford coppola, platoon , clint eastwood's letters from iwo jima , and full metal jacket . war is ruthless, cruel, and men can be evil and do evil things. the only thing that matters is to kill or be killed. there are no winners, only death and destruction. so why does hollywood continue to make movies about war? i don't know. maybe to remind us modern men, women and gays never to engage in war again. but it keeps on raging on. it's already part of the human psyche, to engage i...

i luv films about growing up. about how teeners and tweeners struggle to fit into the adult world. experience life with raging hormones. first luv. first crush. first sex. first smoke. first heartbreak. fitting in. going against the flow. rebelling against the establishment. hating parents and all symbols of authority. being lost. bad skin. pimples. wandering and wondering. the gap years between having a job, paying taxes and having a family and well, uhm, death. that's a very short time, mind you. you know what i mean. &&&&&& my teen-age years were a fog (no pun intended). i don't remember much of it. what can i say, i am old. i also don't  remember much of my twenty's. it went so fast. when i woke up, i was already depressed and celebrating my 30th birthday (i felt old and thought death was knocking) at a friend's posh mansion in greenhills. my best friend baked me my favourite banana chocolate cake, her maids prepared the sumptuous d...