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Kim Huat Takes the Bus

Kim Huat goes on a bus ride and gets more than he bargained for.

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Kim Huat: What’s More Important Than Grades?

Kim Huat thinks there are more important Gs than just Grades.

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Kim Huat reads the News - 8th January 2020 (video edition)

Kim Huat reads the news of the week for 8th January 2020.

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See What Show: 1917

Sam Mendes's World War I movie, 1917, is one of the best war movies I have ever seen. And I am a HUGE war movie fan.

Shot in what looks like one continuous take, the movie grabs you from the start and immerses you in the story.

My wife falls asleep often in movies that don't work. She did not sleep during this entire movie. It was surreal, she said, to watch the story unfold this way.

You follow two young British soldiers — Schofield and Blake — as they go on an almost suicide mission: to get across No Man’s Land with a letter to save 1,600 men from a German ambush.

Blade Runner 2049's cinematographer, Roger Deakins, needs to win all kinds of awards for this.

There are stars like Colin Firth, Mark Strong, and Benedict Cumberbatch playing secondary characters in the film, but they are never used to outshine the story. Instead, you are made to care about the two men on an impossible mission, as you gape at the horrors of the First World War, the "The war to end all wars".

Go watch it in IMAX. It is not in 3D but that screen really works well for this movie.

See What Show: 6 Underground

Here is another mrbrown’s Mini-movie Review, that came out of being sick over the weekend and looking for something to watch.

Netflix's 6 Underground was Michael Bay doing one mindless action sequence after another without a story. This US$150 million movie was meant to set up a franchise of sequels. Oh please no.

Even watching this while drowsy from cough mixture did not make it better. Even Ryan Reynolds couldn't save this stinker.

I waited for two hours for a coherent story to come out of it all, but nope. Nothing. Nada. We did get an overly-long 15-minute car chase scene, flying blood, and waaaay too much parkour.

6 Underground should have STAYED underground and not seen the light of day.

I should have watched The last two episodes of The Mandalorian on Disney+ instead. Or even any Korean drama that my wife is currently bingeing on.

I wish they still had the ratings system on Netflix so I can warn others about shows like these.

Kim Huat and the Cost of Education

On the day before school reopens, Kim Huat explores the cost of education in Singapore.

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