-
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
- 1,227,031 hits
Seongyong’s Twitter
Tweets by kaist455
Daily Archives: January 10, 2021
Totally Under Control (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): Totally out of control
Documentary film “Totally Under Control” is alternatively sobering and infuriating for several good reasons. While it is disturbing to see the exponential spread of COVID-19 virus in US during last year, it is also exasperating to watch how this serious … Continue reading
Kingdom of Silence (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): A journalist who cared about his country
Showtime documentary film “Kingdom of Silence” glimpses into the life and career of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose brutal murder at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul, Turkey shocked many of us in October 2018. Mainly revolving around the … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Documentary, Journalist, Murder, Real-life figure, Real-life incident, Real-life story
Leave a comment
Another Round (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): Sensible Drinking?
Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film “Another Round”, which was selected as the Danish entry for Best International Feature Film Oscar in last year, cheerfully staggers along with its four different main characters who decide to give a little boost to their … Continue reading





