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- The Ivory Game (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Save elephants
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Gleason (2016) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): His life with ALS
Amazon Prime documentary film “Gleason” gives us an honest and intimate look into one former professional athlete’s daily life with his serious illness and the following complications. While never overlooking all those difficulties and frustrations experienced by him and several … Continue reading
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Tagged Athlete, Disability, Documentary, Family, Husband and Wife, Illness, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Better than most of its predecessors
I still remember how much I winced and cringed as enduring what followed after Michael Bay’s “Transformers” (2007). While the first film was fairly watchable, all of the next four sequels were utterly atrocious in many aspects thanks to Bay’s … Continue reading
Wolf (2021) ☆☆(2/4): A murky and confused psychological drama
It is really hard for us to discern what kind of point “Wolf” is actually trying to make. Mainly in set in a special psychiatric facility for mental patients who think they are animals trapped inside human body, the movie … Continue reading
The Ivory Game (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Save elephants
You may be a little relieved after watching Netflix documentary film “The Ivory Game”. Yes, it is really alarming to see how thousands of elephants in Africa were brutally slaughtered just because of their precious ivory tusks during last several … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Elephant, Ivory trade, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (2017) ☆☆☆(3/4): A vivid chronicle of the Umbrella Revolution
I could not help but feel a bit depressed as belatedly checking out Netflix documentary film “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower”, which closely follows Joshua Wong and what he actively led along with many young people in Hong Kong during 2012-2016, … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Protestantism, Real-life figure, Real-life incident, Student
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Confess, Fletch (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): Fletch returns…
Gregory Mcdonald’s “Fletch” was one of numerous pulpy stuffs I gladly devoured during my wild and crazy childhood years in the 1990s. It is too bad that any of McDonald’s following sequel novels was not translated in South Korea, but … Continue reading
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): On his fiery artistry
Netflix documentary film “Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang” will engage and then amaze you even if you are not that familiar with the artistic career of renowned Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (Full disclosure: Neither am I). Here is … Continue reading
Citizen Pane (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Six little satires both painfully and realistically funny
South Korean omnibus film “Citizen Pane” presents six little satires painfully and realistically funny in each own way. All of them surely have something to say about the current social issues of the South Korean society, and I must tell … Continue reading
Dream Palace (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): The price of her compromise
South Korean independent film “Dream Palace” is about one ordinary woman’s increasingly grim and stressful situation which is frighteningly realistic at times. As having been quite frustrated with the deeply flawed system and society, she willingly chooses to make some … Continue reading
Father of the Bride (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): A likable Cuban American remake
“Father of the Bride”, the third film based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Edward Streeter, is a likable remake which deserves its own little place besides the 1950 version and the 1991 version. Again, we see … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Family, Father and daughter, Husband and Wife, Wedding
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