SYNOPSIS: Skadooshi! It's Po's next adventure from the filmmakers that brought you Kung Fu Panda! He may have defeated the ferocious Tai Lung but our Dragon Warrior must now face Shifu's biggest challenge with the help of Viper, Tigeress, Monkey, Crane and Mantis. THE SECRETS OF THE FURIOUS FIVE are finally revealed as we discover it takes a lot more than fast feet and fists to become a kung fu master.
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	Originally packaged as a bonus DVD to the original “Kung Fu Panda” release in the States, “Secrets of the Furious Five” is a 25 minutes animated short film that gives viewers more back stories to the main five heroes that is Mantis, Viper, Crane, Tigress and Monkey.
	
After the defeat of Tai Lung, Po is given the thankless task of training a group of young bouncy Bunnies kung fu by Master Sifu. Instead of Kung Fu fighting, Po wisely imparts the true values of Kung Fu such as patience, confidence and courage through his entertaining tales of the furious five.
As compared to the bonus short film in “How to Train Your Dragon”, “Secrets of the Furious Five” unfortunately is given a less luxury treatment as majority of the scenes are done in 2D animation, storyboard style with the exception of scenes featuring Po, Sifu and the cute bunnies. While the focus is on the story, watching the animation alternates between 3D and 2D can still be quite a disappointing experience given the richness and detailed set pieces the original movie has showcased to viewers.
With only Jack Black (Po), Dustin Hoffman (Sifu), David Cross (Crane) and Randall Duk Kim (Master Oogway) from the original cast returning, some viewers might again feel cheated by DreamWorks’ lack of sincerity but hey at least the son of Jackie Chan, Jaycee Chan replaces his father for the role of a young Monkey. Hearing him imitating his father’s broken English can be a pretty rib-tickling experience.
At the end, I still give DreamWorks’ credit for coming up with warm, touching back stories for the various characters which we love yet knew little about. Who would know Mantis was once an impatient warrior? Viper is actually a snake without fangs? And Crane is a mere cleaner? And Monkey is a baddie while Tigress is an orphan without playmates.
	Despite a less than whelming presentation, “Secrets of the Furious Five” serves as a meaningful message to the young audience and also to fans of the Kung Fu Panda franchise.
	
	
	SPECIAL FEATURES:
	
	With a boatload of extras that serve more of an introduction to the world of Chinese culture, this DVD obviously is targeted for the younger ones. The features are divided into four segments.
	
	Po's Power Play contains a game called Dumpling Shuffle.
	
	Land of the Panda shows you how to make noodles in Mr Ping's Noodle House followed by How To Use Chopsticks and Inside the Chinese Zodiac.
	
	In Be A Kung Fu Master, learn the different fighting styles of kung fu fighting in the various segments such as Animals of Kung Fu Panda, What Fighting Style Are You?, Do You Kung Fu?, Kung Fu Fighting Music Video by Cee-Lo, Learn the Panda Dance, Learn to Draw and lastly, Sound Design is a really interesting feature that shows you how the sound effects are created in the movie.
	
	Kung Fu Panda Around The World - showcases the different languages dubbed in Po Around The World and a Kung Fu Fighting Music Video by Sam Concepcion, a popular young artiste from Philippines.
	
	AUDIO/VISUAL:
Not a title to be compared to the original full-length feature movie, the overall visual and audio aspect of this DVD is passable.
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	Review by Linus Tee
	
	
	
	
	
SYNOPSIS: The legendary Dom Toretto partners with outlaw cop Brian O' Conner on the opposite side of the law in exotic Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Hunted by the ruthless Agent Hobbs and an army of corrupt cops working for a deadly drug kingpin, Toretto and O' Conner reunite the gang from previous Fast adventures to pull off one last job - an insane heist worth $100 million!
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Even before leading man Vin Diesel joined back the Fast & Furious series after Tokyo Drift, the money-raking franchise has already reached a stagnant point. There is simply a limit to how much stories and street-racing an outlaw and an undercover cop can generate. The popular Universal franchise needs to be steered into another direction and resident writer Chris Morgan and director Justin Lin manages to successful rejuvenate it with a heist theme following “Fast & Furious”.
“Fast Five” or known as “Fast & Furious 5” locally reunites Diesel (Dom), Paul Walker (Brian), Jordana Brewster (Mia), Tyrese Gibson (Roman), Ludacris (Tej), Sung Kang (Han) from the earlier instalments and together with franchise-crasher, Dwayne Johnson playing a U.S. Diplomatic Security Service agent sees the whole lot of them going against a Rio crime lord, Hernan Reyes. The gang’s motive is to rob Reyes while Johnson’s character is assigned to bring Dom and Brian to justice.
Comparing “Fast Five” to Lin’s earlier helmed instalments and the first two by Rob Cohen and John Singleton, all I can say is Lin did helluva of a job on this one. Without the subpar unnecessary plotting in “Tokyo Drift” and the CG laden “Fast & Furious”, Lin delivers a testosterone-heavy, full-throttle piece that will easily please the summer blockbusters crowd. If the opening heist sequence in “Fast & Furious” is your cup of tea wait till you see this one which features numerous muscle cars, a rolling train and our main leads jumping off a cliff. And we are talking only about the beginning. The marvelous thing is Lin knew how to keep things going and rolling (literally with cars flipping liked Hot Wheels diecast) that this 130 minutes movie though a bit long on paper breezes by even before you knew it.
Now this is unlike the classy Ocean Eleven series. The guys here don’t discuss their elaborate plans in posh hotels. Most of them aren’t even smooth talkers. Heck, they don’t even have a Chinese acrobat. This is hands-on dirty, gritty crime. All they have is muscle (Vin Diesel and without extra surcharge on the DVD price, another muscle man, Dwayne Johnson slugging it out) and a whole garage of automobiles and their skills in racing. Johnson’s cop character might seem out of place in this already established franchise but yet he brings a whole new level of excitement.
Diesel and Walker are renowned for not being the best actors working in the movie business so are people liked Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris. Fret not, this bunch of people actually are amazing when thrown into a setup liked “Fast Five” especially Diesel and Walker who simply are inseparable and chemistry gelled like industry glue. This two just can’t do without each other in this franchise.
Embrace this spectacular action fest. Forget about the recent heist titles such as “Armoured” and “Takers”, the last act here which is a prolonged car chase involving a huge vault in tow will go down in history as the mother of all car chase. It’s loud. It’s over-the-top. “Fast Five” marks a true entry in the entire franchise that is worth your time.
	SPECIAL FEATURES:
	
	A New Set of Wheels documents the process of acquiring new cars such as the Porsche, Dodger, Gurkha for the new movie.
	
	There is only two short Deleted Scenes which to me is pointless to take them off the final product.
	
	Watch some crotch-grabbing and Tyrese mouthing some F-words in Gag Reel
	
	Justin Lin supplies a very informative and honest track in Director's Commentary detailing the working process of choreographing the stunts, crediting his crew, working with his cast members and Universal giving him notes not to overrun the budget.
	
	AUDIO/VISUAL:
Fast & Furious 5 debuts on DVD with an impressively loud Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack that’s going to shatter your eardrums at every bend. Not forgetting the ending chase sequence which is definitely a home theatre demo piece. Images and details while not necessarily stands out, look clear and natural on the whole owing to the majority of daylight shots.
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	Review by Linus Tee
	
	
	
	
	
	Genre: Horror/Thriller
	Director: Matthijs van Heijningen
	Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eric Christian Olsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Kim Bubbs
	RunTime: 1 hr 43 mins
	Released By: UIP
	Rating: NC-16 (Violence)
	Official Website: http://www.thethingmovie.net/ 
	
	Opening Day: 13 October 2011
	Synopsis: Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name.
	
	Movie Review:
Mention John Carpenter, and almost instantly you'll think of the many horror classics to have graced the big screen, some being etched as cult favourites and having their own dedicated following. It would have taken a lot to try and adapt any of his films to remake or update it for the modern day, and some did, to dismal response. So the next best thing, pardon the pun, as far as the filmmakers of 2011's The Thing did, was to expand John Carpenter's universe based on the story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr., in setting the premise some three days before the original film, and to creatively come up with an origin story of sorts, which will directly lead into the 1982 film.
The original had made references to the Norwegian Antarctica exploration team in a different camp from the USA's, and in this film, writer Eric Heisserer revisits the scene of the crime to try and piece together what could have happened, given that the situation was never quite explained in detail, providing a mysterious air that the 1982 film capitalized on. It's almost like watching a re-enactment of a certain possibility in how events could have unfolded, given the notion that there could have been no survivors from the many charred and grotesque remains which this film had painstakingly created.
We follow the protagonist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), in what would be a given in any monster or alien film in featuring a female lead whom you know will almost always dig deep to find that inner strength and come out as a tough cookie given the circumstances in order to survive. A paleontologist, Kate gets invited to the Norwegian camp where what would be an alien life-form encased in ice was discovered, only for all the researchers and crew in the camp to have swallowed more than they can chew, as the alien life-form escapes, and begins its horrible assimilation and copy, which calls for a physical symbiosis of sorts that results in a complete mangle of the human body with flaying tentacles, and bursting bodies that show off slimy mouths and razor sharp teeth.
For starters, if you've seen the original film you'll probably not be as surprised as myself who have yet to see it, and so the creature designs - part alien part human amalgamation - come off as pretty disgusting yet refreshing, made worst when it's felt the human component is actually fully aware of being devoured by the alien life-form during fusion, that makes it really wicked and sick. Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. doesn't shy away from showing these events up close, with bursting bodies that became something like overgrown Venus fly-traps, and also went about to ensure no quick cut edits to spoil the fun of both anticipation of something about to happen, and to linger on for the viewer to take it what's being framed on screen.
On a more human level, this film deals with what humans do best at times, suspicion of our fellow men, which is horror unto itself without the need for fanciful aliens to incept untruth and hearsay. Part of the mystery and suspense played up involves the guessing of who in the team you can trust since a carbon copy of someone has been and can be made easily and inhabited by the alien, and horror is knowing you can't fully trust someone, since there is absolutely no standard protocols developed yet to tell friend from foe. Walking around with pistol or a flamethrower strapped on your back, is hardly fun with danger lurking at every corner.
The irony of what would be the down side of the film will involve trying to show a lot more than the original did, which in this case was an Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull proportion, where it was eager to demonstrate effects capabilities in having a nicely rendered space craft and its interiors featured in the film where it didn't serve much of a purpose save to act as a different locale for the climax. Simplicity and showing less worked for the original, although you'll understand the pressures that this prequel had on hand to differentiate itself with its arsenal of today's available technology, yet cannot venture too far off in order not to contradict what would be canon later on.
	Still it could have been a lot worst with trying to set the tone for what would be a cult classic The Thing film by John Carpenter to follow given the chronological order, but thankfully Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. ensured that it wasn't, and had elements to surprise new viewers, while keeping true to the mythos established so far to please the fans of the original.
	
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(Limited genuine surprises given more of the same thing)
	Review by Stefan Shih
	  
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	SYNOPSIS: Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with two-time Academy Award(r) winner Mel Gibson in The Beaver - an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life. Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track...until a beaver hand puppet enters his life.
	
	MOVIE REVIEW:
	
	For all the bad press about his personal life, Mel Gibson remains a consummate actor, and nowhere is this more evident than in his friend Jodie Foster’s new film ‘The Beaver’. Gibson plays the depressed family man Walter Black who uses a sock puppet of a beaver to overcome his mental illness, enabling him to relate as a father to his children, husband to his wife and CEO of his father’s toy company. It’s a challenging role no doubt, but Gibson turns in easily one of the most heartfelt performances of his career.
The similarities between his character’s predicament and those of his own real-life troubles may be uncanny to some, but these do not distract from seeing Gibson as the damaged protagonist in the film. Narrated by Gibson with a cockney accent that he uses to convey the voice of the Beaver, his is a portrait of grief and pain that cuts so deep that it is sometimes difficult to watch. Indeed, one senses how much his character wants to connect with the people he loves, but finds it impossible to do so, so much so that when he finds a persona through which he can, it becomes literally inseparable.
Let this be a warning too that the film does get unexpectedly dark and disturbing, especially when Kyle Killen’s script veers into the depth of Walter Black’s reliance on his puppet. Killen, who created the TV series ‘Lone Star’, isn’t afraid to take his story down uncharted territory, and though some have found the conclusion weird and unpalatable, there’s no denying that Gibson makes it all believable. Foster also brings her usual sensitivity to her third feature film, and the familiarity between actor and director enables her to bring out a nuanced and brilliantly calibrated performance in Gibson to go with the changes in tone of the script and film.
Less compelling however is the side plot involving Walter’s son Porter (Anton Yelchin), fearful of following in his father’s footsteps even as he develops a connection with cheerleader/ valedictorian Norah (Jennifer Lawrence). The juxtaposition of Porter’s own journey with that of Walter’s is supposed to highlight the duo’s mutual path towards reconciliation, both in terms of their own selves as well as those they are close to. Nonetheless, Foster struggles to draw out the parallels between the two plot threads, and Porter’s troubles often distract from the central narrative of Walter’s transformation.
That’s however no reason to ignore this well-made, poignant drama made even more powerful by Gibson. Pity that his personal troubles probably casted a shadow on the film’s fortunes, and even in a limited release, the movie was considered a flop in the United States. But we hope that you’ll take Robert Downey Jr’s advice and give the man a chance- because once you see what he has accomplished here in ‘The Beaver’, you’ll agree that the man remains a truly gifted and outstanding actor.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
The Dolby Digital 2.0 audio fits the talky movie just fine, and reproduces the dialogue clearly. Visuals are clean and crisp.
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Review by Gabriel Chong
	SYNOPSIS: Based on the heart-wrenching, bittersweet story of British cook and writer Nigel Slater's childhood, adapted from his best-selling memoir, TOAST is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood.
	
	MOVIE REVIEW:
Nigel Slater may not be a household name in our Garden City, but in London, the man is a popular British television personality and a flamboyant chef who is also openly gay. ‘Toast’ is a movie based on his memoir, centred largely on his childhood and adolescent days growing up in the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton, England in the 1960s. It is however much unlike anything associated with Slater these days, for TV director S.J. Clarkson’s first big screen feature turns out to be a surprisingly intimate and deliberately low-key.
Scripted by ‘Billy Elliot’ writer Lee Hall, the movie spends its first half with Nigel as a child (played with as much insouciance as sensitivity by Oscar Kennedy) introduces us to the kind of family dynamics he grew up in. Father is an authoritarian stuffy working-class man (Ken Stott) who doesn’t bother much about his son except when he misbehaves; while mother (Victoria Hamilton) is the complete opposite, loving and doting in every way but a lousy cook in the kitchen. Her obvious incapability to prepare anything other than toast leads Nigel on culinary adventures, eager to try different food (such as spaghetti) just so the family can have something different on the dinner table.
Besides finding motivation for Nigel’s calling as a chef, Hall also hints at the character’s sexual orientation. Indeed, even as a child, Nigel develops a liking for their teenage gardener (Matthew McNulty), whom his father fires soon after. Though Nigel is torn, nothing compares to the heartbreak when his mother passes away from a lung ailment. Both father and son are devastated, and Stott and Hamilton are perfect in portraying the anguish of their individual characters and its ramifications on their entire family unit.
But not all is gloom from here on, as Nigel finds his place threatened by the arrival of Mrs Potter (Helena Bonham Carter) whom his father hires as the new housekeeper- since both males obviously know very little about tidying up. But Nigel’s father soon develops a crush on Mrs Potter, much to Nigel’s dismay- after all, which child wants to see his/ her mother’s place in the family usurped by another woman? It doesn’t help that Mrs Potter happens to be a great cook, finding her way to Nigel’s father’s heart through his stomach.
And so Nigel becomes even more motivated to pick up cooking lessons, one of the classic scenes of the film when the boy in secondary school becomes the only guy to choose home economics lessons and turns out doing better than all the rest of the girls in his class. Their rivalry predictably intensifies before the film’s end, and as played by Freddie Highmore in his adolescent years, Nigel infamously leaves home and heads for the kitchens of London where he will make his fortune.
Though the narrative unspools in a pretty straightforward fashion, there is much to enjoy in this lovingly told portrait of Nigel’s life. The performances are all-around stellar, especially Ken Stott’s multifaceted portrayal of Nigel’s father who struggles to relate to a son he probably never quite knew. Art direction is sumptuous and the period era in which the film is set is beautifully recreated. Clarkson also directs with an assuredness that doesn’t rush the movie but allows his audience to appreciate the emotional undercurrents of each understated scene.
So don’t let your ignorance of Nigel Slater deter you from watching this finely crafted British dramedy- there are many parallels one can also draw to our own family context. At the very least, you might be craving for some lemon meringue immediately after.
	SPECIAL FEATURES:
	
	NIL.
	
	AUDIO/VISUAL:
Audio is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1, though you won’t get much out of the back speakers except for the film’s score. Visuals are soft and warm but always clear.
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Review by Gabriel Chong
	SYNOPSIS: Countdown to Zero traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possessing nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident. The film makes a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament, an issue more topical than ever with the Obama administration working to revive this goal today.
	
	MOVIE REVIEW:
	
	Being born in this part of the world, we have a feeling that most of our countrymen are very ignorant about many things – the atomic bomb being one of them. Just ask 10 people on the street about the deadly weapon, and we are 90 per cent sure that at least seven of them will give you blank expressions. That said, we are no experts on this subject matter ourselves, and that is why we are recommending this 2010 production produced by the History Channel.
What prompted the above thoughts are several segments in this 89 minute production where people on the streets are interviewed about what they know, as well as their thoughts on the atomic bomb. We can imagine how Singaporeans would answer if the filmmakers had decided to drop by our tiny island to capture responses.
The Lucy Walker directed documentary may not appeal to everyone because of the topic of discussion (admit it: you’d rather watch giant robots fighting each other amidst explosions and collapsing buildings, right?), but it is an issue that we should pay attention to, for the very sake of our existence. The film is of the point that the use of nuclear weapons has increased since the end of the Cold War some 20 years ago. Shocking? Remember, all these years, the world is still subject to terrorism, nuclear proliferation and theft of nuclear materials, amongst other factors. At the rate this is going, are we doomed for eventual destruction ourselves?
Through interviews with leading politicians and experts, viewers are given an insight on how different happenings and events around the world are making this a real threat one should be aware of. Whether you are familiar with them, important figures like Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter, Robert McNamara, Pervez Musharraf and Valerie Plame Wilson give their views on this issue. To make this documentary more marketable, Gary Oldman provides a solemn prologue, while Pearl Jam performs the song “The Fixer”.
The talking heads are complemented by poignant images of world events which you may or may not recognise. Video footage of events happening in North Korea and Russia are just some of the scenes this film offers. Pay attention and you may just realise the seriousness of this ominous issue. The message by the filmmakers is loud and clear, judging by the call to action before the production’s end credits. Awareness is a first step to taking action, and this highly recommended documentary Is one good avenue for unknowing audiences like us.
	SPECIAL FEATURES:
	
	NIL
	
	AUDIO/VISUAL:
The movie’s decent visual transfer is complemented by an English Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack.
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	Review by John Li
	
	
	
	
	
	SYNOPSIS: "A Noob’s Human Holocaust " directed by Eakasit Thairaat, is the introduction with an unexpected twist to pave the way to other parts with higher degree of haunting feeling. "The Gift Shop for People You Hate" directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, is this director’s first time with Sahamongkol Film, with the same style of dark comedy that is his specialization. "The Night to Lose Your Mind" directed by Pawat Panangkasiri is probably the darkest and most serious part which will leave the audience stunned with a shocking end. "Who R Kong?" directed by Madiew Chukiat Sakweerakul is a combination of eccentric characters plus a unique storyline that results in a very entertaining way. These four stories with four different tastes of 4 have been written specifically for this project, under the theme of “losing your mind,” which means the horror and haunting feeling that play directly with people’s mind.
	
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	The success of ‘4Bia’ and ‘Phobia 2’ has no doubt fuelled Thai filmmakers to recognise the potential of horror omnibuses, especially since not many ideas for such movies have enough to sustain a full length feature. Ekkasith Thairath apparently had four of these ideas, and here Thairath is responsible for writing all four stories, as well as directing the first segment of the film. The choice to keep each short and sweet by combining them into one full length feature proves to be a wise one, for it ensures that every story doesn’t get its own unique flavour diluted by length.
Of the four, it is Thairath’s first segment that is the least convincing. Set around a group of guys who sit at a café and start talking about how humans are the cause of the earth’s slow death, it supposes a deadly virus spread through one’s handphone that would kill the person. Apparently, it’s all a plot to wipe out part of the human race so the rest do survive. While mounted with tension, the sheer ludicrousness of the premise outweighs any merits Thairath has in its execution- and we are thankful by the time it is over.
The second short turns out significantly better, based upon a gift shop that sells items you can give to someone you hate to cause them misery. The lead is a white-collar office worker just recently promoted to manager, who discovers that he may be the target of a disgruntled employee trying to get back at him through ‘The Gift Shop for the Ones You Hate’. Plenty of dark humour makes this easily one of the most creative of the shorts, even as the thought of losing control over one’s life is frightening to say the least.
Popular Thai actor Ananda Everingham anchors the third film that tells of a group of three criminals huddled in an abandoned hospital that may not be as vacant as they think. Filmed with requisite urgency, Phawat Panangkasiri’s effort is nonetheless underwhelming, as it emphasises too heavily on gore and violence than good old-fashioned storytelling. The nature of the premise also constrains the movie somewhat, and a lot of time is spent running to and fro trying to find this person and that.
The best of the lot however is the film’s last short, with Chookiat Sakveerakul (‘Love of Siam’) devising a horror comedy which pokes fun at the traditional values of filial piety. In ‘Hoo Aa Gong’, the extended family of a dying patriarch is drafted to keep watch over their recently deceased grandfather- though the night brings pranks, sudden sightings and (gasp!) walkabouts. Chookiat demonstrates his considerable talent for blending two separate genres, and his cast’s great comedic timing ensures that the jokes are delivered with maximum punch.
Of course, sitting through a horror omnibus like this means putting up the other three relatively lacklustre shorts to get to the best of them all. Fortunately, each of the first three are decent if unremarkable, and as a result, ‘Four’ turns out to be better than the average horror movie. Indeed, the strength of a horror omnibus lies in its sum being more than its parts, and this collection of four horror stories proves to be just that.
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	AUDIO/VISUAL:
The Dolby Digital audio is decent, but is noticeably without much surround effects. Visuals are clear and with good contrast between the bright and dark scenes.
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	Review by Gabriel Chong
	
	
	
	
	
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