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Daily Archives: December 16, 2025
10 movies of 2025 – and more: Part 3
Now here are 11 South Korean films of this year.
10 movies of 2025 – and more: Part 2
And here are the other 5 movies in my list – with other films good enough to be mentioned.
10 movies of 2025 – and more: Part 1
So here are the first five films of my annual list.
10 movies of 2025 – and more: Introduction
Again, we are at the end of one year as looking forward to another one to come, but things seem to get worse and worse during this year. While my country is still struggling to recover from a social/political disaster … Continue reading
Eephus (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): Their last baseball game
“Eephus” interests us for what is about and then touches us for how it is about. This is a very plain and simple story about a bunch of amateur baseball players trying to play their last game to the end, … Continue reading
Eddington (2025) ☆☆(2/4): A nihilistic ideological mess
Ari Aster’s latest film “Eddington” is a superficial genre exercise which did not amuse or engage me at all. Yes, I understand that the movie is supposed to function as a distorted mirror to the confusion and frustration in the … Continue reading





