-
Recent Posts
- Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): This time, it’s personal
- Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Things change, so they change
- The Sound of Music (1965) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Still catchy anyway…
- The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A devastating docudrama to reckon with
- The Smashing Machine (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): A mildly unconventional sports drama from Benny Safdie
- Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): Still Relentless as ever
- Top Secret! (1984) ☆☆☆(3/4): A silly but hilariously free-wheeling parody
- Queen of Chess (2026) ☆☆☆(3/4): The story of a trail-blazing female chess player
- Once We Were Us (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Looking back at when they were in love
- Flowers of Shanghai (1998) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Distant but exquisite anyway
Blogroll
Interesting Windows
Movies
Categories
Meta
Archives
My Photos
-
Join 837 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 1,226,947 hits
Seongyong’s Twitter
Tweets by kaist455
Daily Archives: August 15, 2019
Wiener-Dog (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Four short stories around a dog
I cringed and winced from time to time as watching “Wiener-Dog”, the latest work of Todd Solondz. While it is relatively less edgy and uncomfortable compared to his previous works such as “Welcome to the Dollhouse” (1995) and “Happiness” (1998), … Continue reading
Catfight (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Morbid, vicious, and, yes, violent
“Catfight” is a morbid and vicious black comedy about the violent conflict between two different characters. Although it simply observes from the distance how these two characters respectively go up and down while occasionally clashing hard with each other, the … Continue reading
Seongyong's Private Place 