Funny and Witty!

A classic worth a revisit.

Bed Knobs and Broomsticks is a wonderful movie.

I saw it a couple of years back and I still enjoyed it immensely even now-very engaging. Angela Lansbury as the apprentice witch is exhilarating. The adventure of the moving bed spiriting to London and under the sea to Namomboo Island where a no-holds barred football match between the animals is played is uproarious! The songs in this movie are equally delightful.

The highlight of the movie is when the invisible army of an assortment of olde British soldiers from thorughout the ages spurred by the magical spell of substitute locomotion drove the German invaders off England's shores.

Go to re-live the great moments of the movie!

Duelling Banjos and Baptism by Fire

Encapsulates four urbanites' joys and fears as they are baptised by fire or more aptly, by the water of a wild river.

To savour the river in its wildest form before a dam covers everything as far as the eye can see, four adventurous town blokes took up the challenge to canoe down river. Then,uncivilised things started happening to them.

One died, apparently shot, one was embarrassingly sodomised and two became murderers before they found a peace haven at the river mouth.

One great movie especially that idyllic dueling banjo-guitar strumming scene,as the players peeled out the strains of Yankee Doodle Comes to Town.

Fantastic nostalgia. You will see a young Burt Reynolds in action.

Watch out! Bloody Barber

Exceptionally good songs from a dark movie. Literary dark as well.

Benjamin Barker, on getting out of prison, took on a new name as Sweeney Todd to avenge the wrongs done to him and his family. He plans his moves with the landlady and made killing from the barber chair into an bloody art and the flesh of the victims is churned to make meat pies for public consumption. Really, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is he! As expected, he finally exacts his revenge on the judge and his henchman.

In the process, he even slits his real wife and was finally killed, with his own blade, by an orphan boy. The landlady, true to poetic form, was toasted in the bakery fire that made the pies.

Darkly exciting and a pleasure to watch. Do not miss this gem of a movie!

Against All Odds

She was the Little Sparrow,a songstress not like any other.

A great movie biography about Edith Pfief who went through trials and tribulations to become a great accomplished world-class singer. Brought up in a bordello,deserted by both parents and going blind, this girl overcame insurmountable barriers to achieve stardom.

It's in French so you got to read the subtitles.

Nicely paced. Marion Cotillard deserves the Best Actress Award.

See it.

Meet Dave and Laugh

This has been tranferred from another blog.

Meet Dave is Funny!

Yes, suspend disbelief and sit back. Relax and watch Eddie Murphy spins one of the better movies of late.

A spaceship in the shape of a human,containing miniature humans, lands in New York. They found life on Earth fascinating as the lead character Dave fell in love with the Elizabeth Banks. We see life as a newbie on earth as if we ourselves are just as new as Dave to the New York scene- featuring salsa dances, sleeping on a the sidewalk and mixing with the low-life.

Fun while it lasted especially the last part where only the the foot and shoe, which is the life-boat escapes to outer space after attempts were made to capture the spaceship.

Lots of laugh. Enjoyed it.

Recommended to lift up your day.

Is Satan Winning?

Looks like it throughout the ages.

The Lord came and went. That was almost 2 millenniums ago.

The world citizenry continues to be populated by unbelievers. For instance, the Middle-east and other parts of the Muslim world. Then China and India continue to be steeped in polytheism.

The younger generation-mostly unbelievers and chasing basic instincts from women,wine to songs. They are the in-crowd at discos and social events. The beautiful people parade here in all their wild finery while the youths, armed with electronic gadgets like cellular phones, laptops to what-not feels lost if they are deprived of these demigod wonders. God is just not in their dictionary!

I was speaking to Gan about this.

There was also an article that says that at the rate of Muslim in-migration to Europe and their huge propensity to give birth, Europe would be Muslim dominated in 25 years.

So, what are God-fearing people like us doing about this?

Lunch with CL Wong

Wong called up about 10 am to meet for lunch at 12 pm.

And so we met at the 1960's Shop of Fishballs in SEAPARK to share recent events as well as to talk shop. In a way, it got me back into the loop a little. To put me back on the pulse of the public sector.

We spoke of issues like integrity, corruption, race relations and the future of the nation.

Nothing much really has changed. Things are not good generally, including the economy.

Well, he has been extended yet another year. His final, he added.

Good for him. Great chap;always enduring.

Man of Integrity.

Must be a great pastor at his church in Cheras too.