Dive into the Year of the Dragon with Haidilao's Exclusive Kung Fu Panda 4 Experience

Embrace the excitement of the Year of the Dragon in 2024 as Haidilao Malaysia collaborates with its overseas counterparts in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam to present an exclusive Kung Fu Panda 4 dining experience. Teaming up with Universal Products & Experiences (Universal) and DreamWorks Animation, this special event will run from January 22 to February 24, 2024, allowing fans to indulge in a unique Kung Fu Panda-themed dining experience before the global release of the film on March 7 at Haidilao outlets.

credit: Haidilou Singapore

Calling all Marvel Fans, this TGV ‘MARVEL SUPER PASS’ is for you

Sometimes, when you spot a press release in your inbox with the word Marvel on it, you just know it's the Power That Be telling you to post about it. Because this news is too good to keep to myself. 
With a string of Marvel blockbusters arriving on the big screen this year, TGV has partnered with Maybank & Disney to introduce an exclusive Marvel movie pass which offers fans access to the top 3 Marvel movies of the year at great value!

Europe Raiders 欧洲攻略 movie review

There are some actors that just don't age. Nicole Kidman, Maggie Q, Keanu Reaves, Tom Cruise, Donnie Yen and Tony Leung. Back after so long, Tony Leung returns to reprise his role as as resourceful bounty hunter Lin Zaifeng in Europe Raiders, the third movie of the star-studded series consisting of Tokyo Raiders (2000) and Seoul Raiders (2006). This time around, Leung is joined by Kris Wu (xXx: Return of Xander Cage), Tiffany Tang (The Storm Warriors), Du Juan (Lost in Hong Kong), and last but not least, Thai martial arts sensation JeeJa Yanin (Chocolate).

Star Wars Goodies from GSC to be won

Just when you thought their exclusive Star Wars combo was exciting, GSC (Golden Screen Cinemas) is offering more Star Wars: The Force Awakens limited merchandise worth more than RM20,000 in total that you simply must not miss, especially if you are a fan of the Dark Side!

GSC contest!
From 17-30 December, Malaysia's leading exhibitor is taking their Star Wars: The Force Awakens to a whole new level with an exclusive 14-day giveaway. What are they giving away, you ask?

Marvel Mania at TGV Superhero Bash, Jaya Shopping Centre

To celebrate and unite all superhero fans and also in conjunction with the release of the highly anticipated Avengers 2: Age of Ultron, TGV Cinemas recently organised Marvel Mania: Superhero Bash. The party dedicated to their loyal customers and Movie Club Members was held on 25 April at the Ballroom in Jaya Shopping Center and boy, did flocks of superheroes flock to the restaurant that Saturday afternoon. 

Upon registration, patrons could commemorate the event with a photo booth where photos are instantly printed on the spot. Never one to resist a photo-taking opportunity, I had my turn...twice. Moving on!

Exclusive Avengers: Age of Ultron CollectIble Figurine by TGV Cinemas

Hello, Avengers fans!

Great news! 

TGV Cinemas is unveiling a series of must-have Avengers: Age of Ultron figurine combo! You can start booking yours today online on TGV Cinemas’ website: www.tgv.com.my from 10 - 15 April 2015. Each Avengers (Thor, Hulk, Iron Man and Captain America) combo comes together with one regular caramel popcorn and soft drink set for only RM19.90 so think of it like a happy meal set at TGV Cinemas.

Follow these simple steps:
Step 1: Visit www.tgv.com.my
Step 2: Select any movie and add Avengers: Age of Ultron combo set
Step 3: Complete transaction and collect items at your selected TGV Cinemas.
Avengers Combo collections starts from 22 April 2015 onwards.

For walk-in customers, Avengers Combo will only be available from 16 April 2015 onwards, and only two characters will be released each week. Like a certain minion craze....

For more information about the Avengers Combo set, visit www.tgv.com.my or follow TGV Cinemas on Facebook, Twitter, Instragram and LINE.

Insurgent: Divergent sequel review at TGV Cinemas

Being a TGV Cinemas Movie Club member has its perks. Firstly, I was first in (on)line to get advanced tickets for Avengers: Age of Ultron in April. Secondly, I got premiere screening tickets to watch the Divergent sequel: Insurgent.

Oddly enough, I only just watched Divergent the previous week on Astro (out of curiosity and intrigued) and found out hey, the sequel is coming out this week.

How to get free movie tickets [Thanks to TGV]

So a day before Chinese New Year, my office gave us a half-day off and my colleague and I decided to watch Kingsmen: Secret Service at  the newly opened TGV Cinemas outlet in Jaya Shopping Centre. It was a weekday and half of Petaling Jaya was outstation leading to a quiet mall and even better yet, a quiet cinema hall.

The best part was...I didn't have to pay a single thing for my movie outing. Not for my tickets or for my popcorn and drinks. Nadah. Zilch. Zero. Nothing. 

And it was all thanks to my TGV Cinemas Club membership. Upon signing up, each members gets a pair of free movie tickets of their choice and a popcorn set. And in one go, I used both. Totally worth it. I felt like I was being rewarded for my love for movies.

So I guess that's one way of watching a movie F.O.C.

Another way would be to join the TGV Cinemas' 30 Days of Goodies that is taking place at Jaya Shopping Centre. From 5th March to 5th April, the first 100 moviegoers everyday stands a chance of walking away with a free movie ticket or a free popcorn. To be one of the lucky people, all you need to do is....

1. Buy ONE movie ticket.
2. Take a photo of themselves with the TGV Cinemas' signage
3. Upload the photo to either Facebook, Instagram OR Twitter with the hashtag #tgvcinemas and #JayaShoppingCentre

 And voila! You're done! If you're one of the first 100 people to do that, then a free movie ticket or popcorn is a done deal! Save it for a 'forever alone' day or spend it on your date, it's up to you.

This only applies to TGV Cinemas at Jaya Shopping Centre ya..... (can't stress this enough knowing how people are...)

By the way, if you haven't bought your tickets to watch Avengers: Age of Ultron, you can find out how at this link: Avengers 2 Advance TGV Cinemas Ticket.

Avengers 2 Advance TGV Cinemas Ticket sales starts NOW!

Hey Avengers fans! Have I got some awesome news for you!

The premiere movie screening for the Avengers 2: Age of Ultron will be on 23 April 2015, waaaay earlier than the US opening!

Here's the trailer again to remind you  how awesome the movie is.... 

Secondly and the best news yet for Marvels die-hard fans and TGV Movie Club members.....Tickets are already available for purchase on TGV Cinemas' site. 

TGV Cinemas End 2014 With 5 New Locations Nationwide‏

OMG OMG OMG! 

It is finally happening! TGV Cinemas has finally graced my area with their presence with the opening of their outlet in the new (old) Jaya Shopping Mall in Section 14. It is reportedly scheduled to open by Christmas which means I would have an official neighborhood cinema just 10 minutes from my house before the end of the year. 

Yay! No more driving to crowded major shopping malls to catch a movie. 

Jaya is but one of five TGV Cinemas that will be opening up before the year end. The first to open will be in Bukit Mertajam and Miri as their first foray to East Malaysia on Dec 18 and followed by Kulaijaya, Seri Manjung and Jaya by Christmas. 

An Indulging Charity at Indulge, TGV 1Utama

Now who says you can't treat yourself while doing some charity?

Taking the initiative to give back to charity, TGV in partnership with Omnicom Media Group have launched A Delicious Charity campagn in order to raise funds for PERTIWI Soup Kitchen and Fungates Superflow Foundation. 

From November 2014 to October 2015 (a whole year!), 12 different dishes will be featured each month, of which 5% of the 'dish of the month' will go to charity. The 12 dishes were selected and  made reality from the pages of the OMG Can Cook recipe book which only cost RM10.

In the coming months, here are some of the dishes you can expect to look forward to.

Lucy movie review

So my previous movie review on Step Up: All In came with an unexpected surprise. I was selected as the winner of Nuffnang's Step Up: All In review contest! Yay!

And my prize was VIP seating to any Nuffnang movie premiere screening of my choice as well as a Guardians of the Galaxy notebook and a Groot toy that had Senri and Elie squabbling over it.

Step Up: All In movie review

The dance scene is undoubtedly a hard industry to break into, perhaps one of the hardest. It is either you have it or you don't. And like most dancers, I too dreamed of making dancing my career before realising I did not have either the skill or the discipline to make it big. Just passion alone wasn't going to cut it. *wallows in a corner* 

It's okay, I will express my creativity through my writing. 

Anyway, ready to highlight the grueling cutthroat world of professional dancing this time, the fifth installment of the Step Up series reunited stars from its past four movies, mainly Sean Asa (Ryan Guzman) from Step Up Revolution, Andie West (Briana Evigan) and Moose (Adam G. Sevani) from Step Up: The Streets and of course, Vladd (Madd Chadd) from Step Up 3D. As a fan of dance and of the movies, I just had to catch the movie premiere of Step Up: All In.

INDULGE Yourself at TGV 1Utama

You know how sometimes your most highly anticipated movie screening is right smack in the middle of your usual eating time (ie dinner time) or at odd hour that leaves you with hardly enough time to grab a proper meal?

 I do and usually I find that these are my options to curbing the grumbles in my tummy at the movies:

a) Change the movie timing or movie title altogether. (oh, the headache of reschueduling)

b) Indulge and enjoy the movie while dining on grilled salmon (ah, this is the life)

c) Popcorn to curb the hunger pangs (oh, the calories....)

d) Eat earlier or later (thereby throwing your eating routine off course)

e) Tapau and sneak your meal in. (not advisable) 

Now out of these options, you must be thinking 'walio, which cinema will let us watch movie while eating something as luxurious as salmon?' Well, TGV 1Utama will, in the form of their luxurious cinema-and-restaurant concept, Indulge.

How to Train your Dragon 2 movie review

Wow, it has been ages since I did a movie review and I am not sure I can even remember how to do it. Anyway without further ado, on to the review of Dreamworks' most highlight anticipated movie of the year, How To Train Your Dragon 2 courtesy of Nuffnang.

Make Your Move movie review

I love dance. I love the movement, the rhythm and beat of the song. I love how it makes me feel when my body can keep up with the choreography and how creative and expressive it lets me be, as corny as that sounds. I am, by my own admission, not that good a dancer but I have danced with and have been taught by several really talented dancers and we all share the same love and passion for it.

However of late, I find myself distracted with the many running races I've been taking part in and my passion of dance waning. For a month, dance took a backseat in my hobbies and when I resumed classes, I found myself lacking inspiration and have gotten rusty in it.

I need to find a good kick to remind me why I had initially gotten into dancing. A dance movie was just the perfect fix I needed. Although not up to the hype and caliber of the Step Up franchise, the dance move of 2013 was Make Your Move.


Gist
With a Romeo and Juliet storyline, this independent movie stars K-pop singer, BoA and Dancing with the Stars ballroom dancer, Derek Hough. Although both stars are fairly new to the big screen, directing their debut movie is Duane Adler who is no stranger to dance films having scripted Save the Last Dance and the first Step Up movie. Some of routines in the movie were choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon Dumo from So You Think You can Dance.

Aya (BoA) is an aspiring Taiko/tap/contemporary dancer trying to make it in America without the assistance of her overprotective brother and club owner, Kaz (Will Yun Lee). Tap specialist Donny (Derek Hough) hails from New Orleans and skips out on parole to join his foster brother, Nick (Wesley Jonathan) in running the hottest underground club in Manhattan. Both young dancers are quickly caught in their respective brothers' feud over competing night clubs and as the story of Romeo and Juliet goes, are drawn to one another after a dance off on a bar.

LOL with TGV this September

Warning: This post is suitable for only 18 + due its sexual suggestive contents. If you are under 18 or heavily religious or just a prude, then click away now. Now. NOW! Too late. (byreadingonyouagreethatthewriterisnotresponsibleforanymentalscarringandwillnotsue)

LOL = Laugh Out Loud.

That was for the benefit of those living in isolation for the last decade.I kid you not when I say that I have come across people that do not know what LOL or LMAO means. And they are not middle-aged adults or my grandparents either.

 TGV Cinemas is not one of those left in the 80s, thankfully as they decided to bring to you, the best of two worlds and have cleverly incorporate stand-up comedy with comedic films for the month of September.

The Wolverine movie review

The Wolverine was not high on my list of movies to watch this year. The lack of promos and hype certainly didn't help the movie's popularity especially since it has to compete against more anticipated movies like Pacific Rim and Despicable Me 2. But considering the disaster movie that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I thought I should just give it a chance seeing as it was based on Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's Japan arc of the character. In fact, there was a Wolverine anime based on this storyline too as part of a collaboration between Marvel Animation and Madhouse.

Claws and a sword he never used.

Pacific Rim movie review

Having grown up on a healthy diet of Ultraman, Godzilla, Power Rangers, Macross and Gundam, Pacific Rim was like a dream come true to me. Anything involving Mecha and giant monsters and I am there. Think Gundam versus Godzilla in a world in the distant future where mankind is on the brink of extinction.

Gist
Giant monsters, dubbed Kaiju (in tribute to the Japan monsters) have emerged from a portal at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and have laid waste to the major cities in the world, killing millions and forcing countries to unite against a common enemy. To face this threat, the Jaeger Program was initiated under the command of Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) and Gundam-like robots called Jaegers (German for hunters) were built.

The Lone Ranger movie review

To be honest, I wasn't really expecting much from the Lone Ranger. Early reviews have not been so kind on it but I held back from reading them in hopes that I could watch the movie unbiasedly. But sadly the movie didn't help itself despite having Johnny Depp in the one of the leads as Tonto. In fact, the movie was basically Pirates of the Caribbean repackaged to the Wild Wild West.

Gist
Basically told in flashback format by the aged Tonto, also played by Johnny Depp, the movie dives into how the Lone Ranger (Arnie Hammer) came to be from a bumbling pacific lawyer, John Reid whose brother was murdered by the I-eat-your-heart-out (once in the whole movie) bad guy, Butch Cavendish. Reid was left for dead only to be rescued by Tonto who also has a personal vendetta against Cavendish. Throw in a white horse with serious issues, a mask made from a vest, a silver bullet that doesn't go missing despite all the action, a damsel in distress, a villain with the hots for that damsel and you have the Lone Ranger.