-
Recent Posts
- Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) ☆☆☆(3/4): Another deadly game
- EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): He rules anyway
- A Samurai in Time (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): A samurai sent to the 21st century
- Enola Holmes 3 (2026) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A problem before her wedding
- The Sheep Detectives (2026) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A woolly mystery
- Little Brother (2026) ☆☆☆(3/4): The trouble with his “brother”
- Voicemails for Isabelle (2026) ☆☆☆(3/4): A typical Netflix romantic comedy with some enjoyable things
- Summer’s Camera (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): A little sensitive queer adolescent drama
- Manok (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): A lesbian lady back in her rural hometown
- Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023) ☆☆☆☆(4/4): How a French restaurant works
Blogroll
Interesting Windows
Movies
Categories
Meta
Archives
My Photos
-
Join 828 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 1,298,166 hits
Seongyong’s Twitter
Tweets by kaist455
Daily Archives: August 12, 2024
Jules (2023) ☆☆(2/4): The Old Man and the Alien
My late mentor/friend Roger Ebert hated, hated, hated what he usually called “the Idiot Plot”, and here is his own definition: “A story in which every problem and conflict would be resolved in five minutes, if not for the fact … Continue reading
Shine (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A slow story in the island
South Korean film “Shine” is curiously somber and distant in terms of story and character. While it seems to care about its main characters at times, it also often observes them from the distance without delving that much into whatever … Continue reading





