I like Wang Wei performed by Vic Zhou and I like that Vic Zhou performed Wang Wei. Go Lala Go 2 would not have had the same feel to it if the character had been performed by anyone else.

Rather than dab on the tone of the movie whose premise nowadays is far too cliché to be continuously addressed, I want to reflect upon love as love is the silver lining of the movie. Not love towards career ambitions but love between a man and a woman as that is the love that has most romantics drawling in anticipation.

Go Lala Go 2 has that driven almost obsessed eagerness to be professionally successful at a high profile or high end job, believed to bring satisfaction but that type of satisfaction is like coffee, addictive at first, creating a vibe of can do it all, want to do it all, achieve it all, need it all but ultimately comes the realization that triumph like coffee can be bittersweet in the long run and that love well...love is love and what is life without love? An ocean of emptiness.

Bolin Chen is an eye candy rather than a strong performer but when the other main male lead is Vic Zhou, is Vic Zhou who steals the show and brings an ordinary story to life. Wang Wei loves a woman, loves her madly. He supports her, he defends her, he longs for her. All those emotions are there in his eyes to see, in his actions to interpret, in his love for Lala, a woman who waivers but never truly forgets, a couple that loves and hopes for love.

For Wang Wei, for Vic Zhou and for the love that is more than a romance, is a feeling, Go Lala Go 2 is a really good movie to watch. Love exists. There is hope!

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Dawa, a snow leopard loves her cubs! She lives in the wilderness, a vast rocky terrain where she hunts, feeds her cubs and nurtures them! She is fierce and so strong. She protects her territory for herself and her family until one day an intruder brings reinforcements and she is forced to flee her home with her cubs into a new unfamiliar territory. She has to find a new home for her family and provide for them, even when she’s hurt and she tries, she tries to feed her cubs to the end and I was left heartbroken. Why couldn’t the crew interfere? Why? They were there. Why? Why? Why? I swallowed dry the heart wretched I could not contain!

Ya Ya, a cute giant panda is very protective of her daughter Mei Mei. It’s understandable but Mei Mei like any other cub wants to explore here surroundings and climb trees but Ya Ya doesn’t let her which doesn’t stop Mei Mei from trying. One day, Mei Mei succeeds in climbing the tree, a very big tree with a great view and her independence journey begins while Ya Ya gives birth and nurtures another cub and the cycle continues. Giant pandas are known for living solitary lives and enjoying their days to the fullest, resting and eating tons of bamboo!

Tao Tao is cute and like an older brother in many situations is jealous of his younger sister whom he perceives to be getting all the attention and actually getting all the attention. He’s a golden snub-nosed monkey also known as Sichuan golden hair monkey. He lives with his family in the Southwestern Chinese Forests, that is until he decides he has had enough and moves in with a group of rebel monkeys, hoping to get affection. Things don’t quite go as Tao Tao thought and eventually he goes back to his family but his dad is like – you moved out, stay out. Except one day, his sister was about to become prey of a falcon and Tao Tao saves her. He becomes a hero and is accepted back into the welcoming arms of his family.

Chiru also known as Tibetan antelopes have an interesting way of living. They mate and then the females go on peregrination to a lake where they give birth to their calves in the summer and then migrate back to the males, joining them late Fall. The thing is as the females leave for such a long period of time, the males forget whom they’ve had relationships with sort to speak and the seduction game begins once again, repeated year after year after year.

This documentary is really poignant and heart-warming for those that like David Attenborough’s movies. I smiled and nearly cried and in the end I was content. China has such a rich wildlife that is wonderful to have been able to experience stories of their species on screen.

The film was produced by Disney Nature, Chuan Films and Shanghai Media Group.

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I discovered the movie by accident and then i read the story and I found it intriguing enough to watch the trailer. It seemed different from the Japanese movies I have been used to watching. It seemed darker in terms of photography, in terms of the story line, in terms of vibe, a lot darker and I'm not a fan of dark movies, on the contrary. I tend to evade them as much as possible, however this one seemed good enough for me to try and watch it.

The story per say was too bland and blase on my opinion. Nothing unusual or different or even unique but visually it captured the mood of the story, it reflected the script and added layers of atmosphere to the performances which were what stood out to me. Hiroomi Tosaka as Hiroshi Haruyama was truly powerful. He owned the screen every time he was on and he made the character one that could be related to, one that could be understood in the actions taken independently on whether or not the audience agreed with the character's choices. Rena Nounen's performance I found rather bland. Perhaps it was because her character Kazuki Miyaichi seemed rather bland and didn't leave any scope of manoeuvre in terms of how it could be performed, perhaps it's the actress who is like that, with limited facial expressions, perhaps it was how the character was written or the actress interpretation of the character. I do not know but I didn't particularly like her as I found her too weak and spineless for nearly 100% of the movie.

The end well....I enjoyed it. I thought Kazuki Miyaichi character to be more human and adult rather than the spineless teenager I considered her to be so to me, the end was satisfying. Hiroshi Haruyama was good and that was good for me! Overall I liked the movie!

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Youth Unprescribed is pretty light, fun, cute and fluffy overall with a phenomenal OST, equally light, fun, cute and fluffy.

The songs are so sing along, so 20 years old, enjoying university life, pursuing careers, falling in love... is endearing, particularly the main song: Youth tour by Wang Mingyu so full of life, of dreams, of friendship that is wished to last a lifetime... everything is wished to last a lifetime... then The Most Gentle Wondering by Pinguan, a poignant ballad that expresses a dept of emotions of hope, longing, promises...

There are a plethora of medical dramas out there but there aren't any that portray the lives of medical students at university as far as awareness goes which is rather intriguing. It's as if doctors become doctors out of the blue when in fact it takes years and years and years to become one.

Do you have a dream that you think is impossible?

Imagining wanting to become a surgeon, interning with la creme de la creme in surgery to hear that your idol, who is not a singer, an actor or an entertainer by the way but a doctor has never taken any female students as mentees, the sadness, angst and disillusionment... breaking down to emerge from the ashes like a phoenix to fight for the chance to become the first one, the first female student under his guidance.

It’s impossible until it's done.

Youth Unprescribed aside from the lightness and freshness of the story is rather original showing the challenges university students go through in general, their ups and downs, their particular stories, and the specific ones to medical school life, blending medical expressions with Chinese literature in the same episode which is resourcefully ingenious!

Reading about parts of the 16th Century Chinese novel by Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West that incorporates aspects from Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese mythology and folk religion is unusually distinctive.

Love stories... what are drama stories without them right? Some tend to go all in, others are slightly more subtle as that is not the main focus of the series. Here love is the centre of the series but not 100% in a romantic way. That takes 3rd fiddle to the experiences of the Wu Yue, Gao Yi Yang, Yao Wei, Tong Yu Shi, Lan Qi Xing, Sun Shi Zhen, Wen Hao and Shi Jie in medical school.

Love is about friendship first and following one's dreams; love is about helping others and love is about the feelings of two people for one another. This is the order of Youth Unprescribed love. Love that is just love, not perfection which the performances showcase well. The youth of the cast and probably experience doesn’t detract from the story, on the contrary everyone has great chemistry on screen. The script, spot on by the way was most likely a great help to the cast as well as the directing done by Ling Guo Song, a newcomer as far as idol-dramas go but with some less prolific filmography popularity wise, under his belt.

From beginning to end the drama invokes feelings of youth, of love and carefreeness, reminding the audience that regardless of their age, youth is a state of mind that ought to be constantly cultivated. To teach is to learn every day, to learn every day is to maintain humility and to maintain humility is half-way in the internal pursuit of happiness in a state of calmness to face whatever challenges are presented in a positive manner.

The drama would have been absolutely perfect had it not have a couple of mishap detractions. One, there was a visible editing issue which marshmellowed a bit of an episode’s consistence and could have easily been corrected in the editing board. Two, dressing the cast in period costumes for 70 odd minutes, that is an episode and half of the overall 24 drama episodes was unnecessary as the only substantial contribution it provided to the story was the re-emphasizing of who the drama leads were as if the audience hadn't already guessed that in episode 1.

For all of the above reasons, Youth Unprescribed is a 9 out of 10.

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Marmalade Boy is based on the same title manga released between 1992 - 1995. This is the 2nd live action adaptation ever made, the first one being a Taiwanese drama in 2002 therefore expectations were high. To increase expectations further, it ought to be mentioned that this adaptation is a movie and also that there is an anime version of the story comprised of 76 episodes.

For fans of the story such as myself, who have watched both the drama and the anime, the movie falls short on so many fronts, it's surreal. This is not to say that the movie wasn’t enjoyable; it was but there was so much that was left out and unexplored due to the time length of the film which was normal yet, there is this nagging that after all this time fans deserved more than a movie, fans deserved at least a 10 episode drama to make the story justice instead of putting together a something that felt really rushed on screen, that made secondary characters, third, fourth in the story i.e. Meiko's love story with Shinichi Namura is only briefly dabbed upon and her story arch with Satoshi where they date for a while (when she tries to forget Mr. Namura and then realizes she can't) doesn't appear; Arimi & Ginta's relationship is non-existant - both appear in the movie, of course but their partnership to tear Yuu & Miki's apart or their subsequent feelings for one another are left out and Suzu and Kei do not appear in the movie at all.

Acting wise and of course, here it's a matter of preference when one is a fan of the story. Yoshizawa Ryo was not convincing as Yuu. He wasn't bad but somehow since the movie cast was announced and the movie was released it there has been a continuous struggle to see him as the character, regardless of how much I try. Sato Taiki as Ginta on the other hand looked and felt spot on.

Movies have to be selective. There’s no time in focusing too much on characters other than the main if it’s not essential to the story’s development but fans wanted to see those stories, fans deserved those stories and at the end it was just satisfying because fans got something which was better than nothing, so thank you but far too unsatisfying because the story was too rushed and parts of it way unexplored. So for fans, this movie is not worth it. It’s better to re-watch the drama or the anime.

For those coming into to the story for the first time, the movie is nice to watch. It's cute and the story makes sense, encorporating key elements of the manga. It's a pretty light romantic comedy that one can watch eating popcorn but it's nothing special. The drama & the anime are better so if after watching the movie there is still interest in the story watch those.

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I was on a flight looking for films to watch. I like South East Asian Movies so I always browse the Chinese/Korean/Japanese movies available to watch. I liked the premise right away. Based on a true story it was a light comedy that one can relax watching.

The story is about a group of Japanese High Schoolers coming together to participate in cheerleading competition in the US and the process, the struggles, the challenges they had to go through to get there. The movie is in theory just another cheerleading film, one who happens to take place in Japan. There's nothing new about that but Japan doesn't have a long-standing tradition in cheerleading when compared to the US the Japanese culture is very different from the Western Culture in the broad sense of the expression, not the literal one, therefore it's inspiring. It shows that determination and hard-work can make dreams come true but that's not something new either.

The acting was good, nothing exceptional but good as was the music to put it simply.

Overall it was a nice comedy, light, breezy, fluffy and entertaining!

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Mario's gaze is worth taking the time to watch this Lakorn

The story is interesting and I liked the alternate realities and time jumps. To put it simple, Buang Banjathorn is about a woman who is betrayed by her husband of 2 years and retreats to the house she inherited from her father where she finds an old beautiful bed which transports her back in time to the period of World War II. There she meets Laoperng and love blossoms! Apart from this the Lakorn is nothing out of the ordinary really character development wise. They are all so utterly simple, basic, elemetary essential wearing their hears in their sleeves the entire time it was both a joy and an inrritating agony to watch.

Mario was great! His eyes are always so sweet and kind. I don't think I have ever watched a Lakorn with him as a male lead where his eyes were not so beguiling expressive. As Laoperng he is the epitome of a man with a high degree of honour and chivalry, most unduly uncommon nearly most of the time in any era! Indeed a very sweet and principled lead!

Mai was okay. She's a good actress. Here it felt like her talent was wasted. Either that or the writers did intend to write Praenuan like a statue that always portrays the same contemplative emotions or lack of them. Praen is also constantly monocordic even when what's required is a bit of spunk and attitude by kicking Khed out of her house and out of her life instead of just plainly telling him to leave when he's going to keep ignoring her and act like the a boss doing what he pleases to his subordinates instead of a worthy Man who respects his wife's wishes! Sometimes it's really hard to get Praen's attitudes as her proactive manner scumbs to her reactive nature at every occasion, unfortunately!

Khed is exasperating, irritating, maddening, infuriating, irksome, vexing, galling, vexatious, displeasing, pesky, aggravating, infernal idiotic! Honestly! Why does he refuse to get it? Why? He doesn't love Prae. He wants her, he's possessive and a pain. Above all he betrayed her and then he kept being there all the time! Please writers, could you not have written a male character less repetitive? Someone with a bit of common sense rather than the emotional overlord who wants to keep his wife at all costs regardless of her wishes, despite her wishes to be divorced. Was he born in the wrong century or is he experiencing a constant mental regression into feudal times?

Thongriew and Sanpaeng love story was sweet, really sweet but Ruengrayub was a Cruella Deville reincarnation backwards minus the dalmatians. Truly annoying but that's something one gets used to watching Lakorns and it adds symbiosis. There is good and there is evil. Both coexist but in the end, good prevails, yay!

The end was a thorn but the story was good and the Lakorn is really worth watching for the story and for Mario!

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People like to know the future but they hardly ever wonder two things: one, whether knowing the future will bring them happiness, and two, whether the knowledge will it make a difference.

To Us, From Us answers those questions and it shows how teachers can make the difference in students lives.This is the kind of movie that makes viewers hope that should they receive a letter from their older selves about the challenges that'll happen in their immediate future, they can work and change events. It's an emotional roller-coaster where the teacher Mr. Tangent gives vibes of John Keating in Dead Poet Society.

Overall, the movie is good and moving but it's not light and breezy so if you're looking for that, this is not it. To Us, From Us, is the kind of movie that is emotional and thoughtful.

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I have been waiting for this drama just nearly as much as I had been waiting for Big Bang's MADE but with a difference. Big Bang are K-Pop 'seniors' and Moorim School is mostly composed of 'juniors'. I didn't entirely grasp or agreed with the casting in the beginning, the same way I didn't grasp 'Loser' or 'Bae Bae' but it grown on me as the story and the characters finally took shape in my head, making it real like the moment I watched 'M' music videos. You get the picture right?

Did Moorim fullfill all my expectations? Yes and no. Yes because I wasn't disappointed neither was I depressed most of the time and no because I wanted those 4 episodes I felt KBS denied us viewers of due to the appalling ratings to put it mildly. I also wanted a Big Bang concert in Europe and that didn't happen either. On the other hand 'A', 'D' and 'E' were brilliant. After all 'If You'...'Let's Not Fall in Love'!

I bought into the premise of the story as much as I bought into the premise of 'MADE' being released in parts, I always had something to wait for and it was going to be totally worth it but it wasn't, not in the beginning. I thought the drama had a slow start and 'M' was too far off my reality and I couldn't identify myself with any of it, regretfully. Supernatural, adventure, martial arts, quests...great but what about the rest? What about the pace? What about the dynamics? What about the connection with the viewers? With the audience? It wasn't there! The beginning was simply bland for Moorim School.

Then came the intangible metamorphism like new personal discoveries, personal development... knowledge. Moorim School seemed different from the usual trademark of K-dramas so I was flabbergasted with the criticism, the ratings and the reception the drama had.

I liked the story, I still like the story albeit still mulling over the rushed end and the lack of pace in many episodes considering it was know far ahead of time that the drama was going to be shortened to 16 episodes, giving the writers ample time to kick-start the drama's dynamics and elevate it, proving critics wrong, proving KBS wrong, proving themselves wrong but they didn't. They seemed resigned to doing 16 episodes as if the drama was still going to have 20 episodes and giving us viewers who spent 16 hours of our time glued to the screen, an understatement drama that was just passable perhaps due to their defiance towards not reinventing the last episodes and make it 'Bang Bang Bang'. There was no 'wow Fantastic Baby', almost as if each of the writers felt like a 'Loser' in Bae Bae's music video which in the end they probably were.

The acting was average, nothing special but to be brilliant would be to expect Big Bang to sing Opera in hypothetical attempts. With practice it's achievable without it, well 'Haru Haru'!

Overall it's an enjoyable drama for those that like the story and relate to the characters, otherwise 'MADE' DVD will be a nice alternative to it. Add the music videos, the interviews, the extras and so forth and you can spend 16 hours of your time being a VIP. The choice is yours!

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Chinese Sports dramas are all the rage and have been so for quite a while which is pretty good! The stories are a bit like diet food, bland and in dire need of seasoning as well as serious acting chops but they’re silly enough to be worldly entertaining, with good visual leads and passable annoying supporting characters. It is exceedingly fortunate that those interferences are incautiously half-witted not trying hard enough to provoke the audience into a bathroom sprint to purge all the unnecessary regressive idiotic mental delusions that have been fed to their cerebrums.

My Unicorn Girl is just another cross-dressing drama, bye bye hello Bromance, one set at the ice-rink of a university, hiya Skate into Love, except that:

Yeah, the concept of a girl cross-dressing as a boy has been repeatedly revamped in the contemporary online to online society alluding to an idealized fictionalized version of offline to offline life that is as farfetched as it is tangible and authentic, at least at some point. Imaginaries can be pink and cute inside in a white and blue ice-hockey outfit to fulfil a dream, unbeknownst the later awareness that reality can and might surpass any giggling dumdeedum da-dumdeedum butterfly fantasies.

Pi Ya Nuo and Du Zi Feng – by no way connected to Si Feng in Love & Redemption – fall for one another. Sang Tian and Wen Bing do the same. Tang Xue and Li Yu Bing, it was complicated. Ironically it shouldn’t be considering human evolution. Bromance dates from 2015, Skate into Love, 2020 and My Unicorn Girl also 2020 but is the dìdi of the three. Growth ought to be a progression, not a regression, that’s within the sphere of mathematical science.

Sang Tian is a Pi Ya Nuo younger version. A mascarade of a girl cosplaying into a boy who falls head over trainers in love with an actual one, Wen Bing. Handsome, smart, perfect men are an ubiquity to utopianism, a mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the egotistical of them all as if that mattered at all in an absurd monarchically follower created binarism to depreciate differences whilst exhibiting them. Wen Bing, is as graceful as an unpolished brick surface with inner sophistication and taste with his general prosopagnosia and specific Sang Tian face recognition. This is beautifully sweet as love, love is its own recognition even when in hiding.

Parallels that are like candy crush in their break the mould similarities when in the end it all comes down to execution, technique, persistence and the ability to keep fighting the odds to succeed, with blantant disregard for tv ratings in a very fortunate manner; a test of time in a demure summon for gender equality and treatment... risking the ire of si jie mentors.

My Unicorn Girl doesn’t have the flair of media buzz protruding from every social media cell on face of the dramaland's earth like Skate into Love did, neither a centimetre of the buzz, which says a lot both in a yin and yang emphatic vintage dualism. Skate into Love at one end of the spectrum, Bromance and My Unicorn Girl at the other end, the underdogs.

How trilling! No, there’s nothing remotely trilling or new about Unicorn Girl, unless it actually contained a unicorn rather than being the name of the team and a symbol of love and unity. Everything else exists already including good actors, rephrasing good performers, not necessarily young idols who play poker faces at acting.

Darren Chen expanded his entertainment drama presences that Meteor Garden’s popularity trampolined him into. He might have portrayed a stoic unflappable character whom Wen Bing mirrors to the bone in a profusion of ways including, income, social status and mannerisms that they might as well be carbon copies of one another in different societal settings. Even the zigzagged confusion between the appalling way of visually expressing his feelings and the extreme effort to make them stand out were a hit. What was amiss in My Unicorn Girl was the nonexistent second male lead attitude in a male lead role. People have flaws. Characters have flaws. Everyone has flaws.

Sebrina Chen on the other hand despite not having Darren’s female equivalent status quo in the industry nor the imperial visibility to stand out yet brought vibes of Megan Lai's acting including in her onscreen chemistry with Baron Chen, here, rather, Sebrina with Darren, which works marvelously like two witty peas in a lotus pod. It’s so interesting and jovial to watch their banter episode in, episode out that at the end of the series, the only regret is that is over. Bromance transmutted into true love. The end.

Overall rating: 10 out of 10.

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Ummm, where to start this...the beginning. I had no expectations about this movie whatsoever. First I'm not an EXO-L, second Chan Yeol is who exactly? A member of EXO. Okay and??? Am I supposed to be impressed by that? No. Moving on...he's a rapper, the main rapper and a singer. Okay but he's not rapping or singing in the movie so do I care? Nope, not one bit. He's an actor. Well, I can see that otherwise he wouldn't be the lead performer in this movie, it would be somebody else. He could have been the second male lead. What if he was? He's a member of EXO, so unless there was a bigger name heading the project that would be unlikely to happen. Kai and Sehun are much better actors. Whatever...for arguments sake, let’s focus on this movie. Fine. Fine, so???? The movie, yeah... as I was saying I didn’t have any expectations therefore I was not disappointed. I was entertained. I laughed, I giggled, I smiled. Overall I had a good time watching it. It’s a summery comedy, light, breezy, cute, obnoxious, good.

The plot was nothing special but it was something many would probably have imagined through fan fic and maybe dabbed at it either through reading or writing. A famous, illustrious idol actor hits the spades with his anti-fan. Throughout the course of a few movie minutes audiences are awarded a walk down memory lane with a Full House esque theme minus Rain and Song Hye-kyo. Antagonists become lovey dovey and spades turn into hearts. Very touching yet very predictable. Points for the originality of the idea, nil. Points for reinventing and modernizing the idea 10 out of 7. To make it a 10, the blend would actually have to be fluid with less over the top annoying I’ve seen better than this moments before in another movie/drama. The movie is in fact based on a manhwa of the same name.

The performances were okay. Maybe I’m biased as I can’t stop comparing Chan Yeol’s character to Chan Yeol in EXO next door. They seem the same which is not the ideal thing as this would mean he has a long long long way to go as actor. Branching into a male lead role might have been fine if he was an experienced thespian. As he’s not he might benefit from developing his craft by undertaking smaller roles and gaining acting experience before venturing into a production he might have gotten an offer to for being an EXO member and the group’s popularity in China. Yuan Shan Shan’s performance was equally bland however I found it to be slightly better than Chan Yeol. She is an experienced actress compared to him but her performance was for the most part utterly annoying and loud. The rebel I hate you act is good when it’s properly done and that means subtly done at times otherwise it’s too much and at times it felt too much. Saying this I liked it more than I did Full House and that’s saying a lot.

The soundtrack, I didn’t pay attention to it apart from the Tango. I liked that scene with the piano. It was filmed beautifully. Apart from that every song was forgotten. Chan Yeol and Shan Shan did sing a song for the movie called ‘I Hate You’ however meh.

The re-watch value is 50/50. It depends on the day, it depends on the mood. I liked the movie. I had fun watching it and I’d recommend it, that’s all and EXO are really talented entertainers and they dance, wow how they dance!

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