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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Spider-Man with a bit of Iron Man
After watching “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, I thought about how fast things come and go these days. We thought it was over when Sam Raimi completed his Spider-Man trilogy in 2007, but then there came “The Amazing Spider-Man” (2012) and its 2014 … Continue reading
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Okja (2017) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Save her super pig
What an odd work “Okja” is. Besides being an offbeat hybrid between South Korean film and American Hollywood film, this is also a quirky cross of several different genres which are somehow juxtaposed together in one curious bundle, and I … Continue reading
Anarchist from Colony (2017) ☆☆☆(3/4): An anarchist couple who stood by each other
Based on a dramatic real-life story from the Japanese Occupation era, South Korean film “Anarchist from Colony” is more amusing and entertaining than I expected. While being as serious as required by its historical subject, the movie is also quite … Continue reading
American Honey (2016) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Selling and drifting on the road
“American Honey”, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in last year, gives us a vivid, realistic glimpse into a certain type of lifestyle which is not so familiar to many of us. Because I had never … Continue reading
Yongsoon (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): A country girl’s hot, problematic summer
While it is uncomfortable to watch at times for good reasons, South Korean film “Yongsoon” comes to us as an engaging coming-of-age drama about its adolescent heroine’s hot, problematic summer. Although it is inarguable that she clings to a very … Continue reading
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) ☆1/2(1.5/4): Another unbearable epic mess
It is an understatement to say that “Transformers: The Last Knight” is a cinematic equivalent of blunt instrument. This is another unbearable epic mess as brainlessly loud and bombastic as three previous sequels following “Transformers” (2007), and it will relentlessly … Continue reading
Antiporno (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Another perverted exercise in style from Sion Sono
You cannot possibly expect anything normal from Sion Sono, who is surely one of the most interesting filmmakers working in Japan at present. “Cold Fish” (2010) was a bleak, disturbing psychological thriller about an ordinary family man gradually influenced by … Continue reading
I Am a Cat (2017) ☆☆☆(3/4): Aren’t they cute?
South Korean documentary film “I Am a Cat” is full of cats, and I enjoyed that as a longtime cat lover. Since I began to photograph those stray cats living in the campus of Korean Advanced Institute of Science and … Continue reading
The Villainess (2017) ☆☆(2/4): She’s lethal….and sappy
“The Villainess” is probably one of the most exciting bad South Korean films of this year. While there are several first-class action sequences to be admired for heaps of efforts and techniques put into them, it is unfortunately stuck with … Continue reading
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The Mummy (2017) ☆☆(2/4): A mummy comes to London
“The Mummy”, a reboot of the Mummy series which is also the first installment in the Dark Universe film series of Universal Studios, is dour, bland, and joyless while not proving anything particularly fun or scary. This unexciting blockbuster product … Continue reading
