Monthly Archives: July 2015

Cat and her kittens during one summer day (2015/07/30)

Posted on July 30, 2015 by

Please get out of the building, will you? I need to work.

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Minions (2015) ☆☆1/2 (2.5/4): More Minions, shall we say

Posted on July 30, 2015 by

Are you familiar with those silly yellow creatures called Minions? If you have seen animation feature film “Despicable Me” (2010) and its recent sequel, you cannot possibly forget their many scene-stealing moments. In “Despicable Me”, they were the goofy workers/cheerleaders … Continue reading →

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Shaun the Sheep (2015) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : The Sheep in the Big City

Posted on July 26, 2015 by

I remember well when I encountered those lovely stop motion animation works from Aardman Animations for the first time during late 1990s. Three short animation films featuring Aardman’s iconic characters Wallace and Gromit, “A Grand Day Out” (1999), “The Wrong … Continue reading →

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Assassination (2015) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : Too many shooters

Posted on July 26, 2015 by

South Korean film “Assassination” wants to juggle lots of things at once. Besides attempting a busy mix of action and comedy in the context of history drama, it shuffles between many various characters bound to converge on a certain point … Continue reading →

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Camp X-ray (2014) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A guard and a detainee in Gitmo

Posted on July 25, 2015 by

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp has been one of the most unjust things during the War on Terror, which is still being continued around the world with no end in sight. Because the people held at this camp are technically … Continue reading →

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Blackhat (2015) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Style over keyboarding

Posted on July 23, 2015 by

At some point during my viewing of “Blackhat”, I began to focus on how it looks rather than what it is about. As a ‘cyber-thriller’, it surely has an interesting topic which has been more relevant along with those frequent … Continue reading →

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Phoenix (2014) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4) : The past is still there for her and others

Posted on July 19, 2015 by

The war is over, but the past is still there for her and others. Christian Petzold’s “Phoenix”, a quiet but compelling period drama revolving around disguise and manipulation with a touch of film noir, is reticent about the dark period … Continue reading →

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Big Game (2014) ☆☆1/2 (2.5/4) : No game is too big for this kid

Posted on July 18, 2015 by

One of many entertaining parts in late Roger Ebert’s memoir “Life Itself” is the story about how he participated in the production of Russ Meyer’s “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” (1970) as its screenplay writer. While Ebert’s screenplay was … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Reach (2014) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : A survival game in the barren wilderness

Posted on July 16, 2015 by

“Beyond the Reach” works best when it focuses on a deadly cat-and-mouse game between its two contrasting main characters. While one ruthlessly pushes the other into an extreme condition, it is compelling to watch both of them trying to outwit … Continue reading →

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Inside Out (2015) ☆☆☆☆(4/4) : Inside the state of mind

Posted on July 12, 2015 by

Pixar has done it again. Their new animation film “Inside Out” is a simple but sublime work which not only delights us with its boundless imagination but also touches us with its dexterous storytelling. At first, you will be amazed … Continue reading →

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