Friday, 13 April 2018

Dao Kaew Duen (2013) - Review

"Dao Kaew Duen" aka "the star circles the moon", is a lakorn that took me by surprise because I liked it more than I anticipated. It kind of reminded me of Sood Sanaeha with its urban feel and the lack of forced kissed, screams and too cartoonish antagonists. It is more of a light comedy with a build...

Friday, 6 April 2018

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) - Review

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is one the classic bollywood movies that cemented the pairing of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol. It looks older that it is, but it is quite enjoyable and entertaining. Plus, it has many iconic scenes that are reproduced in other movies and watching this adds to the meta factor...

Friday, 3 November 2017

Song huajai nee puer tur (2015) - Review

“Song huajai nee puer tur” aka “Two spirit’s love” is a thai lakorn that heard high praises and it turned out they were right. This is fluff at its best. What is this about: Khun Tharatorn (Mario Mauer) is a young businessman who is engaged with Champagne (Pat Napapa). However, due to an accident...

Friday, 6 October 2017

Dropped like a hot potato - Roy Marn (2011)

Usually if I don’t particularly like a lakorn, I skip the annoying scenes and keep a strict diet of scenes with the leads. But this was truly dropped only after four episodes. Either this was that boring or my resilience is significantly shortened over the years.  I had heard really good reviews...

Pasion de amor (2015) - Review

This is my very first pinoy teleseries and I was excited to watch it since it was a remake of the very popular and one of my all time favorite latin soap operas, passion de gavilanes. So, how did this remake fare against the “original”? (passion de gavilanes was also a remake but it is the most popular...