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Tag Archives: High School
Bottoms (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Figthting Girls
Emma Seligman’s second feature film “Bottoms” is decidedly outrageous for laughs, and I enjoyed that. As a high school comedy movie, it is often blatantly artificial in terms of mood and details, but it literally does not pull any punch … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Coming-of-age drama, Football, High School, High Schooler, Homosexaulity, Romance
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The Holdovers (2023) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Stuck together during one Christmas season
Alexnader Payne’s latest film “The Holdovers”, which will simply be released in South Korea as “Barton Academy”, is a dry but humorous character drama which will grow on you a lot for its excellent mood, performance, and storytelling. While it … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Comedy, High School, Teacher and Pupil, The Vietnam War
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The Dream Songs (2022) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Two girls on one day
The emotional power of South Korean film “The Dream Songs” mainly depends on how much you know about a certain disastrous incident which shook the whole South Korean society on April 16th, 2014. I think the story itself will still … Continue reading
Totally Killer (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Scream mixed with Back to the Future
“Totally Killer”, which was released on Amazon Prime a few days ago, is another familiar genre mix which thankfully has enough entertaining moments to hold our attention to the end. As slyly recognized in the film, this is basically a … Continue reading
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Tagged High School, High Schooler, Horror, Mother and daughter, Murder, Serial Killing, Time Travel
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Hail to Hell (2022) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): This is surely not what they expected…
South Korean independent film “Hail to Hell” surprised me more than once for good reasons. As following two young outcasts’ silly attempt of personal revenge, the movie generates a number of sharply humorous moments for us, and then it goes … Continue reading
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): The tale of a Kraken girl
Animation feature film “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kragen” might have felt a bit more refreshing if it came out a few years earlier at least. During my viewing, I was reminded of several other recent animation films including “Luca” (2020) and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolescence, Animation Film, Coming-of-age drama, Family, Fantasy, High School, High Schooler, Mother and daughter
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World’s Best (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): A little but likable Disney rap musical
“World’s Best”, which is released on Disney+ in last week, is a little but likable Disney rap musical about a smart middle school kid who boldly takes a chance with rap music. Although its story and characters are actually pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged Father and son, High School, Mathematics, Middle School, Mother and Son, Rap music
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The Summer (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): After that summer romance of theirs
South Korean queer animation film “The Summer” gives us a simple but bittersweet presentation of one summer romance and its aftermath. As tenderly and sensitively observing the start, development, and end of romantic relationship between its two different lead characters, … Continue reading
Trans (2021) ☆☆☆(3/4): A little but ambitious high school SF mystery drama
There were several times when I wondered whether I really understood everything in South Korean independent film “Trans”, a deliberately baffling high school SF mystery drama about an intriguing possibility of technological transcendence beyond singularity. I must confess that I … Continue reading
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Tagged High School, High Schooler, Mystery, SF, Singularity, South Korean Film
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Ghost World (2001) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A quirky girl and her unexpected friend
I am fascinated with how Terry Zwigoff’s “Ghost World” has grown on me since I watched it for the first time around 15 years ago. At that time, I was a graduate student who was socially awkward but had been … Continue reading
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