Flipped - A Lovely Romantic Coming of Age Movie Set in 1960s

During my latest weekend staycation in Karawang last Saturday (more on that in my wife's blog), I was waiting for our dinner time at 6PM and stumbled into this movie playing in HBO Hits. I was not really interested to see this one at first but since there was no other movies that I have not seen at that time, and seeing the start which seemed funny, I continued watching this till finished. So what was the movie about? Let us get on to it, shall we?

Brief Story Line

It was the year 1957 when a very young Juli Baker met with her neighbor Bryce Loski for the first time. She immediately "fell in love" to Bryce. Few years later, Juli who was now already in the 8th grade (Madeline Carroll - The Spy Next Door, Machine Gun Preacher etc) was still having a major crush on Bryce, but Bryce (Callan McAuliffe - Hacker, I am Number Four etc) was always trying to avoid her. He felt that Juli was a bit too pushy and he also shared this with his best friend Garret (Israel Broussard).

War for the Planet of the Apes - The Third and Final Installment of Caesar's Story

This was one movie that I had been waiting for since few months ago after I saw its trailer. I thought this would be a wonderful movie and it showed signs of going to be a movie with epic battle. Due to some reasons though, Indonesia was a bit late to have the movie's premiere. The film only played starting yesterday (almost 2 weeks latter than the U.S). It was a bit disappointing for Indonesian movie goers that some summer blockbuster movies are now playing few days or weeks late, even months (such as Cars 3 which would only play in August or Baywatch that only played last week and few other examples). Well at least they still played in theaters though, rather than having them completely bypassing us and we had to see those movies in cable TV or live streaming. Anyway, let us get on with the movie.

Brief Story Line

Story was told few years after the story in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes where the Ape leader Caesar (Andy Serkis - as Gollum in Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit trilogy etc) was hiding in a secret cave with his tribe. Caesar always tried to avoid confrontation with the humans due to the previous war ignited by his friend Koba (Toby Kebbell - Kong: Skull Island, A Monster Calls etc). However their peace was short lived as they were attacked by a military team who was supported by few of Koba's former team who refused to follow Caesar.

DUNKIRK - The Amazing Story of Soldiers' Evacuation from the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II

I have heard about this movie for few weeks now and at earlier stage when I saw the trailer to the movie, it felt like a war drama movie. Then I did not see anyone that I knew off in that trailer. So I had to admit that it did not create an excitement to see this film, apart from the fact that it was directed by Christopher Nolan who was famous for directing amazing successful movies such as The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar and even the low budget but fantastic movie Memento. When the movie finally premiered in Indonesia last Friday, I did not go to see it since my wife and I already had plans to have our weekend staycation (also to celebrate her birthday). We only saw this one yesterday after we checked out from the hotel and had our lunch. And we decided to see this one in Epicentrum due to the cinema having large screen and also nearby our lunch location. 

Brief Story Line

During the World War II, the British and ally troops including the French army lost to the Germans in the battle of Dunkirk. More than 400,000 soldiers were stranded in the island with the Germans on their tail and were sometimes attacked by the German bomber planes. Dunkirk was not too far from England and even the soldiers could see the islands, but because of the condition, they could only wait for the British army to evacuate them.