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22 August 2012 #441

Just beginning this week with ticket sales is the THIS Buddhist Film Festival 2012. With the theme of "Open Your Mind", the film lineup is a mix of thoughtful arthouse films that will satisfy the cravings of film buffs.

In commercial film, our pick of the week is Iron Sky, a science fiction comedy about an invasion of Nazis from outer space and the defence of the free world by a Sarah Palin lookalike and her team of ragtag misfits. Made by the same guys who brought us several Star Trek parody films on YouTube, this is an exercise in rubbishy fun.

In the same vein is Expendables 2, this time reuniting for laughs ageing action stars. While blowing stuff up, liberating people from dictators, they also make fun of their action star gimmicks. If you're a fan of Jean-Claude van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, and Dolph Lungren, here's your chance to relive the good old days of 80s action movies all over again.

Reggae music legend Bob Marley gets an Oscar-worthy documentary in Marley, which capitalises on the fact that almost everyone who raised him or worked and lived with him are still very much alive today. Their memories of Bob Marley, set to home videos of his private and public life, as well as bootlegs of his live concerts — make for an engaging experience of an intensely gifted and spiritual musician.

Girl in Progress is a smart comedy about a precocious girl who decides to leave her childhood to grow up fast. What they didn't tell her is you could be smart for your age but no wiser than your age — so get ready to laugh at how every plan she makes in order to be taken seriously as an adult blows up.

In The Cold Light of Day, there is a shadowy conspiracy involving something in a stolen briefcase that Henry Cavill should know about because two of the world's deadliest secret services and their rogue factions are about to kill him for what he doesn't know.

Hotaru the Movie continues the romantic misadventures of its eponymous protagonist, an office lady who is an overachiever at work but a slob at home. So the television serial ended with her marriage? Just wait till you see her honeymoon!

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

Iron Sky

Iron Sky is a cheerfully demented homage to B-grade films of a bygone era. Tomo Vuorensola, who broke through in 2005 with fan parody feature film Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, was as guerilla and independent as you can get. Here, the premise is "Nazis in Space". And Vuorensola throws in every joke to skewer Nazis and Americans alike. With the invasion taking place on the eve of a presidential election with Sarah Palin clone running for re-election, American politics and politicians in particular get as many pies thrown in the face as their German counterparts in this film.

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Marley
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