Magic Mike

Have your beefcake and eat it too!

This is a story inspired by real life.  Mike takes a young dancer under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of picking up women and making easy money.

Tatum's performance is worthy of a star. He sure does give his all to the energetic stripper routines which I might add ring close to home for Tatum as this is indeed a semi-autobiographical account of Tatum's past as a male stripper.  His fusion of B-boy, hip hop, pop and lock is excitingly choreographed and executed.

What's worthy of noting is the surprising emotional punch added to the drama.

It gets a 4 thumbs up from us!

The Amazing Spider-Man

We all know the story of Peter Parker so no introduction is necessary. Even though this saga is 50 years old there is still so much freshness to be spun.

In this reboot you can expect loads of action, romance, imagination and smart writing.

The Amazing Spider-Man has updated the story for a very young audience however I wish it would stick to the comic book source material more. It even deviates more from the source material than the Raimi trilogy which is unfortunate as a great chance to do so was missed out on.

That being said, Andrew Garfield has enough charm and charisma to avoid the same character pitfalls as Tobey Maguire. As for Emma Stone... well, she can do no wrong.


Jason Kok tweeted: "Spider man is amazing without the horrible Toby McGuire. Needs more witty banter though."


Abigail Goh Tian-I also shared some thoughts on the movie: "Caught The Amazing Spider-Man in 2D, today! Everything was beyond amazing. Despite that, Tobey Maguire will always be my favorite Spidey."    

It is an entirely unnecessary remake, but a good one. The tweeps concur:

 "The Amazing Spider-Man. 7/12. Spidey bcomes less funny, great fight, new swing, though lack of actions. Andrew is good."  menantu idaman ibumu  

 "The Amazing Spider-Man was even better the second time! :)" Brett Douglas


Our popcorn pick of the week gets 4 thumbs up!

The Dictator

Baron Cohen is always best when he jumps the comedy fence.

Even though The Dictator is entirely scripted it leaves you laughing helplessly.

The character, Aladeen, is different to Baron Cohen's past three personas. Aladeen is a combination of Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and is a truly dangerous person.

The plot: A usurper in the Wadiya government (Ben Kingsley) arranges an assassination attempt on General Aladeen. This has the result of replacing Aladeen with a  dim-witted double. The temporarily deposed Aladeen having his trademark beard shaved off is now presumed dead and is left to wander NYC.

What do the tweeps think:

Rajen Palsingh - “the speech near the end of the movie "Dictator" is the most amazing speech ever :)” 

Ruan Angel – “there was literally a grand total of 30 seconds i didnt laugh during the dictator funniest movie of”