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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Le Week-End (2013) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A couple’s imperfect weekend in Paris
They are not young anymore, and they have problems to deal with. As following their rather imperfect weekend, “Le Week-End” initially draws our attention with those lovely sights of Paris and then gradually reveals an honest picture of two aging … Continue reading
Joe (2013) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Cage and Green back in their element
With its stark rural background and the people who really look like its squalid inhabitants, David Gordon Green’s new film “Joe” feels real at every minute. As we are absorbed by how it takes its time to establish its mood … Continue reading
Point Blank (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Passable but efficient
As revisiting French action thriller film “Point Blank”, I thought about how familiar a certain thriller premise is. In many thriller films like this one, an ordinary guy suddenly finds himself being blackmailed to do something not so good while … Continue reading
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Only God Forgives (2013) ☆1/2(1.5/4) : The stylish dud of this year
As I became depressed during my viewing of “Only God Forgives”, my mind was transported to when I read one of those entertainingly scathing movie reviews included in my late friend/mentor Roger Ebert’s book “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”. … Continue reading
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : The amazingly entangled Spider-Man
Flying along its redundant pathway like its predecessor did two years ago, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” frequently goes up and down in its uneven plot hampered by too many things stuffed into it. While I did care about some of … Continue reading
Campus animals (2014/04/22)
Geese, cats, and one rabbit.
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : ….and her therapy will end.
Now we arrive at “Nymphomaniac: Vol. II”, the second part of Lars von Trier’s another challenging work to talk and discuss about. As its exhausted heroine warned us previously, this is a darker territory compared to its first part which … Continue reading
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Her therapy begins…
Ready to disturb, intrigue, provoke, and impress us with its penetrating presentation of a dark side of human nature, the first part of Lars von Trier’s controversial work “Nymphomaniac” is surprisingly cheerful and amusing at times while working as a … Continue reading
Han Gong-ju (2013) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): “I didn’t do anything wrong.”
She is the one who should be helped and protected, but she is left in pain and confusion instead, and she does not even know how to deal with her gloomy situation while not wholly understanding it in her helpless … Continue reading
Grand Piano (2013) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A deadly comeback concert
While many thriller movies try to play audiences like piano, “Grand Piano” tries to play not only its audiences but also a real piano at the center of its plot. Its premise is preposterous to say the least, but this … Continue reading
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