Thoughts on Films

Episode 44: Not The Oscars Prediction Show (part 1)

We can’t keep Wina away, so she’s back again in this episode, where we look at the films and filmmakers of the 2015 Academy Awards! Mind you, we have not seen all of the films, so do not expect a predictions show of sorts. Rather, this will be an informal, slightly unguided and somewhat insane session of talking. Then again, that’s been the recipe for quite a lot of our shows as well, so no worries there. Check it out, enjoy and Happy Lunar New Year to all our listeners!

Originally published on 15th February 2015.

Episode 43: Trials And Tribulations Of A Subtitler

We’re back with a special episode and a special guest! This week, we welcome Wina once again, as Fikri makes good use of his time in Jakarta. They both sit down and discuss one of Wina’s secret careers: she is a television programme subtitler! Or at least, a cog in the subtitling machine, as she constantly puts it. Nevertheless, it is an important cog, and this is an important episode as Fikri and Wina discuss her experience, how she comes to hate reality shows, and why it’s difficult to translate the word dog into Indonesian. Check it out!

Originally published on 6th February 2015.

Episode 42: Boxing Days

Hola, the good people of film lovers! Welcome to our 42nd episode. Here, the boys will take a look back at the year that is 2014 in Malaysian cinema. Quite frankly, they got more than a little sick of saying ‘The Journey’ over and over again, but there were a number of other surprises there, too. So enjoy this mind-numbing, numbers-crunching edition of the world’s only film podcast in Bahasa Malaysia!

Originally published on 17th January 2015.

Episode 41: Hello, Malaysia! (part 4)

On the home stretch, people! We bring in the new year with the final part of the epic-ish discussion on horror films. In this episode, we finally land in Malaysia, and discuss pretty everything we could think of under the sun, from P. Ramlee’s own attempts at the genre to more contemporary offerings by Syamsul Yusof and gang. We hope you guys had a good time celebrating the new year, so here’s to a resolution from our side: more of the same from the world’s only Bahasa Malaysia film podcast!

Originally published on 5th January 2015.

Episode 40: Hello, ASEAN! (part 3)

Ladies and gentlemen, we hope the holiday season has found you to be merry and jolly all at the same time! Not that we’re about to discuss Christmas films or anything. Rather, we went long and on about horror films, this time zeroing in on our ASEAN friends. We discuss the contenders from Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia before the final part on Malaysian horror cinema next week. Until then, we wish to thank you for your support in 2014, and have a happy new year!

Originally published on 28th December 2014.

Episode 39: Hello, Asia! (part 2)

The boys are back with a continuation of the previous episode. They really need to work on their time management, though, because the initially-planned two-parter on horror films expanded into…well, a total recording duration of more than four hours! As such, here is the second of the-now-new-four-part series. For now, Fikri and Muz take a closer look at Asian horror, so enjoy!

Originally published on 22nd December 2014.

Episode 38: Hello, Win! (part 1)

OK, so the moon is no longer red, werewolves are no longer howlin’ and the vamps and ghouls already went back to their crypts, but if anything…that’s the perfect time to talk about their films! Feeling much safer, in part 1 Fikri and Muz takes a big bite of the horror genre. Of course, they can’t cover every single thing, but they do talk about its earliest years on the silver screen as well as how folk stories, urban legends, cultural and social panics are/were played and incorporated into films by the Western world. All these and more in the one and only recorded podcast in Bahasa Malaysia that talks about ghosts and ghouls but without the campfire and marshmallow (because we’re sure there’s a fatwa or something against that)!

Originally published on 15th December 2014.

Episode 37: Kami The People

For this episode, Fikri and Muz said, “Kami akan berehat seketika untuk ‘Kami The Movie’.” Recorded during Buku Jalanan 3 Tahun, this special episode is a recording of a discussion session about ‘Kami The Movie’ (not this ‘Kami’). The movie was based a TV series of the same name about urban youth in Malaysia. The panel members, the film’s director Effendee Mazlan and friend of the show Dr Norman Yusoff, were moderated by Athina Marzuki, so click the link and just press play!

Originally published on 5th December 2014.

Episode 36: Harapan Anak Jantan for the Gone Girl in The Cage Hanyut

We would jealously KIL for others losing their heads as their hopes are Hanyut, not unlike the Anak Jantan’s for the Gone Girl in The Cage in that film research institute. What on earth are we talking about? Why, it’s only a look at the tits and bits of Malaysian cinema news in the world’s only film podcast to be done in Bahasa Malaysia!

Originally published on 24th November 2014.

Episode 35: Speaking Glibly on Studio Ghibli (part 2)

Continuing on from last week, Fikri and Wina discuss the remaining films of Studio Ghibli. From ‘Whisper of the Heart’ to ‘When Marnie Was There’, from films they’ve seen ten times over to films they’ve…not, it’s all here on the only film podcast in the world to speak intelligently (maybe) about films they’ve not yet seen (maybe)!

Originally published on 2nd November 2014.