80 FILM REVIEWS 81 NEW THIS MONTH 82 MOVIES 84 TV SHOWS 86 AUDIO/RADIO Entertainment 87 ARTIST OF THE MONTH © 2018 WARNER BROS. PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. AQUAMAN May 2019_GPE.indd 79 18/04/2019 12:44 PM FILM REVIEWS WANT HELP WITH WHAT TO WATCH THIS MONTH? FILMMAKER AND DIRECTOR KAM RASLAN MAKES THE CASE FOR THESE MOVIES. with his politics, but his movies are invariably a directing and acting masterclass. goingplacesmagazine.com THE MULE THE NAMESAKE Clint Eastwood has acted in 72 movies and One of the great things about flying is that TV shows since 1955 and directed 40 movies it gives one a chance to catch up on classic (Quentin Tarantino has only directed nine), movies. Indian-American director Mira Nair including Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, GLASS does not make enough movies, but she both of which won Oscars for Best Picture Director M. Night Shyamalan is a rarity because has a unique quality because of her Indian and Best Director. The Mule might be his last since his remarkable 1999 debut The Sixth Sense heritage and interests and because she | as an actor (he hasn’t decided yet; it depends (“I see dead people”), he has created his own is a rare female director. Her movies have 80 if there is a good script for an 89-year-old). genre. His movies have elements of horror and shown a great interest in the Indian diasporic | May 2019 Beginning his long career in Sergio Leone’s thrillers, but they are also unsettling, sinister experience and generational change. In spaghetti Westerns, he was quite simply the and ancient. His genre is the supernatural. Mississippi Masala, an Indian family is coolest man in the world but he hasn’t been It’s unsurprising that he explores between culturally adrift after being transported from afraid to show himself growing old. and across genres because although he is East Africa to, well, Mississippi. Who else an American, he was born in the small south makes movies about that? In The Mule, he plays an until-recently Indian French exclave of Puducherry before successful, happy-go-lucky flower-grower but growing up in Philadelphia, one of America’s The Namesake, based on the novel by neglectful husband and father (he forgot to oldest cities, which has been the backdrop for Jhumpa Lahiri, tells of a thoroughly go to his own daughter’s wedding). But now nearly all his films. And while crossing genres, Americanised young man attempting to chart he is broke. “Damn Internet ruins everything,” he also created a group of superheroes, which his own path and understand his roots as he says as he puts his meagre belongings he has now brought together in Glass. he is pulled and pushed by his increasingly into the back of his rusty old truck. In a Bengali parents who took the family to desperate attempt to make some money In Unbreakable (2000), Bruce Willis is an America in the first place, the spur having and to make amends with his family, he ordinary man who discovers he cannot be been a train crash. Interestingly, both M. Night agrees to become a drug mule, driving bags hurt after surviving a train crash and is pitted Shyamalan’s Unbreakable and The Namesake of drugs to distant towns. An old man, once against Samuel L. Jackson, whose bones break hinge on a train crash. a pillar of polite society, has been reduced easily but whose devilishly intelligent mind to breaking the laws he always lived by. But makes him untouchable. In Split (2016), James If you didn’t watch The Namesake when he’s making good and easy money. Steadily McAvoy plays a very confused sadist inhabited it came out, now’s your chance. It’s a and inexorably, Clint Eastwood, the director, by 24 separate personalities. In Glass, they are captivating study of not only the Indian cranks up the pressure. all brought together in a lunatic asylum and diaspora but the choices many of us find toyed with by Samuel L. Jackson, who also ourselves making to understand our roots in Clint Eastwood is a genuinely great toys with the whole superhero genre, and we a culturally globalised world. filmmaker who builds moving character meet a sinister power that attempts to control studies and tense drama without the wild them and us as well. Glass is a satisfying histrionics of, say, Quentin Tarantino, and continuation of M. Night Shyamalan’s world. because he can always recruit a stellar cast, And it even has a nod to the Nakatomi it’s easy to forget that his movies have a building of Die Hard. How many more genres The Mule, Glass and The Namesake are playing onboard. Check your in-flight entertainment system relatively small budget. I don’t always agree will he cross? for channel information. May 2019_GPE.indd 80 18/04/2019 12:44 PM NEW THIS MONTH HOLLYWOOD AQUAMAN THE KID WHO WOULD THE MULE GLASS JASON MOMOA, AMBER HEARD, WILLEM BE KING BRADLEY COOPER, CLINT EASTWOOD, JAMES MCAVOY, BRUCE WILLIS, SAMUEL L. DAFOE, PATRICK WILSON LOUIS ASHBOURNE SERKIS, DENISE GOUGH, MANNY MONTANA JACKSON, SARAH PAULSON PG-13 / / 143 mins / Action, Adventure, Fantasy / DEAN CHAUMOO R / / 116 mins / Crime, Drama, Thriller / E, J, K, E+ PG-13 / / 129 mins / Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller/ J, E+ E, J, K, E+ PG / 120 mins / Action, Adventure, Family/ E, E+ Earl is a horticulturist and Superhuman vigilante David The origin tale of Aquaman, heir Alex is a 12 year old boy struggling veteran who is estranged from Dunn tracks down Kevin to the underwater kingdom to adapt to life at his new school his family and struggling to Wendell Crumb, a madman with of Atlantis. Aquaman faces when he stumbles upon the survive financially. Desperate multiple personalities. During a trials and tribulations as he mystical sword Excalibur. A story for money, he begins working public brawl, both are arrested leads his people against his that is a twist of the Arthurian as a “mule” transporting and taken to an institution for half-brother, Orm, who seeks legend taking place in the cocaine for a Mexican drug cartel the criminally insane. There, to unite the seven underwater modern world, Alex must rally across Illinois. Earl becomes Dunn meets his archenemy, kingdoms to wage war against his friends and join forces with successful and cashes in on his Elijah Price. The trio must work the surface world. It is time the wizard Merlin to stop the efforts, but when an eager DEA together to escape the asylum Aquaman embraces his destiny wicked enchantress Morgana agent starts to probe, Earl’s life and from a psychiatrist who is and fights to become king of the from unleashing darkness upon is put on the line. out to prove they do not possess underwater world. the world. superhuman abilities. | May 2019 81 | BEST OF MALAYSIA CHINESE TAMIL HINDI goingplacesmagazine.com POLIS EVO 2 起底组 / நீ뿁믍 நாꟁ믍 / सर / SIR KARANBIR HUNDAL, ERRA FAZIRA, KEYBOARD WARRIOR NEEYUM NAANUM VIVEK GOMBER, GEETANJALI KULKARNI, TILLOTAMA SHOME MIKE LUCOCK STEPHY TANG, GRACE CHAN, SING LAM, K.K. KHANNA, ARUN KUMARAN, PG-13 / / 120 mins / Drama / ML, E+ NEO YAU, LARINE TANG JASMINE MICHAEL PG-13 / / 99 mins / Drama, Romance / E+ PG-13 / / 100 mins / Drama, Comedy / M, E+ PG-13 / / 150 mins / Romance / E+ Police officers Sani and Khai are Ratna, a young widow from on a drug bust operation that Tech-savvy nerds Ang and Jay All Might and Deku receive an a remote village, moves to takes them to a remote island chance upon the scene of a invitation to I-Expo, the world’s Mumbai to become a live-in off the coast of East Malaysia. security van’s cash spill but are leading exhibition of quirky maid to Ashwin, a wealthy and A group of terrorists led by intercepted by an off-duty police abilities and innovative hero handsome bachelor reeling from Hafsyam Jauhari descends upon officer before they can help items, held on a floating island. a failed engagement. Before long, the island and takes an entire themselves to the loot. Driven The island’s security system is Ashwin finds himself falling in village hostage, with Sani and by a sense of righteousness, breached by villains who set in love with Ratna but their societal Khai’s party caught in the mix. the duo, together with their motion a plan to hold everyone differences do not make it easy It is up to the duo to free the anonymous online pals on the hostage. The Hero Association for the two to connect, leading hostages and take down Golden Forum, investigate the must act quickly to save the to tensions. incident, only to find they have the terrorists. island and its residents. uncovered a scandal. RATINGS: R Restricted. Not suitable for audiences under 17 years of age. LANGUAGES: G / U General audience. Suitable for all ages. NR Not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. A Arabic / D Danish / E English / ES Spanish / F French / G German / PG Parental guidance recommended. Some content may not H Hindi / I Italian / IN Indonesian / J Japanese / K Korean / Contains scenes or language that may be disturbing or be suitable for children. M Mandarin / ML Malay / T Tamil / TA Tagalog offensive. Viewer discretion is advised. PG-13 Par ental guidance strongly recommended. Some content may be inappropriate for children under 13 years of age. Programmes with Malaysian content. SUBTITLES: 15 Suitable for audiences aged 15 years and above. Award-winning movies/programmes.