Ad Astra (2019): Brad Pitt in a Visually Mesmerizing and Deeply Meditating Space Travel

The fall movie season has always a heart for thrilling and mesmerizing space-related science-fiction. You named it: Gravity (2013), Interstellar (2014), The Martian (2015) and Arrival (2016). Now you can add Ad Astra at that list of movies, as one more movie of human's space exploration as the effort to look deeper to humanity. This is…

It Chapter Two (2019): A Satisfying Ending of Pennywise’s Terror

Some said, there is no such thing as too many great things. In this time where remakes, reboots and sequels were so common in Hollywood, lots of movies have failed in delivering a proper sequel, and ended up in useless, better-there-is-no sequel at all. Bloated in 170 minutes running time, It Chapter 2 used its…

Ready or Not (2019): A Rare Clever Thriller with Working Comedy

The idea of hunting humans are there in cinema history, most recent we were served by the trilogy of The Hunger Games. The challenge in making this movie were still the same, how to keep the audience interested enough to the whole story, whether it's a skillful hero like Jean-Claude Van Damme on Hard Target…

Midsommar (2019): An Unsettling, Horrifying Break-Up Story

Ever since Hereditary (2018), I always interested on what Ari Aster would offer in his next movie. Then came out this Midsommar, with promising trailer that Director Aster would bring the same horror as Hereditary. I watched Midsommar twice, the uncensored one through some streaming services, and the censored one when it finally released on…