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Tag Archives: Crime
Compliance (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Banality of Evil at a fast food restaurant
“Compliance” is a small one-situation drama which is simultaneously absurd, outrageous, horrifying, and disturbing in its cold depiction of dark human behaviors we are quite capable of if we are at the right place and the right time. It is … Continue reading
Spring Breakers (2012) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : And then it becomes no fun to them
“Spring Breakers” is a gaudy exercise in callousness and recklessness. All these girls in the movie want is to get out of their boredom, and they certainly get it when they arrive in St. Petersburg, Florida. While usually wearing bikinis … Continue reading
Fast & Furious 6 (2013) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : Outrageous & Preposterous as usual
At the certain point during one of the action sequences in “Fast & Furious 6”, the audiences around me burst into a big laugh because they could not simply believe what happened on the screen. When one character was hurled … Continue reading
Get Shorty (1995) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : He’s well-qualified to be a Hollywood producer
It is a jungle out there in Hollywood, and “Get Shorty” presents the various kinds of animals residing at the lower strata of that jungle through a pungent but cheerful satire about one nutty pre-production process. Almost everyone in the … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Actor, Comedy, Crime, drug, Hollywood, Loan Shark, Movie, Producer
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Bernie (2011) ☆☆☆(3/4) : He’s the guy for your funeral
What a nice guy Bernie Tiede is. He is so nice and sincere that you cannot possibly imagine him doing something bad to you. Based on a weird real-life crime story which was quite stranger than fiction, Richard Linklator’s quirky … Continue reading
End of Watch (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A gritty mix between cop drama and found footage
Once upon a time, there was a movie called “The Blair Witch Project”(1999), and its unexpected success generated a sub-genre so-called “found footage”. While this low-budget genre has been continued through other successful cases like “Paranormal Activity”(2007), there also have … Continue reading
Minority Report (2002) ☆☆☆☆(4/4): A great multifaceted entertainment from Spielberg
Watching Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” (2002) again through Blu-ray made me muse on how much my life with movies has changed during the last 10 years. When I watched it with my father at one of the big movie theaters … Continue reading
A Cat in Paris (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : One charming night adventure in Paris
“A Cat in Paris” is an enjoyable lightweight animation – and I had a good time with this breezy entertainment. Though it is pretty short(the running time is less than 70 minutes), but that is enough for its simple adventure … Continue reading
A Simple Plan (1998) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : It sounded so simple at first…
Sometimes the ordinary people becoming evil are more frightening than Dr. Hannibal Lector or Frank Booth. The villains like them are downright scary, but they are basically outsiders with monstrous nature beyond our common sense. In contrast, the characters in … Continue reading
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Tagged Brothers, Country, Crime, Husband and Wife, Money, Murder, Thriller, winter
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Bullhead (2011) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A Bull to the slaughter
“… I think that we’re all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and, and claw, but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, … Continue reading
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