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Tag Archives: Priest
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A new priest comes to the town…
Rian Johnson’s latest film “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”, which was released on Netflix on last Friday, is another compelling mystery story to watch. Just like its predecessors, the movie throws an interesting murder case and then … Continue reading
Conclave (2024) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4): Into a papal election
“Conclave” feels totally tense and serious with its utterly pulpy story material, and that is the main reason of its entertaining success. Closely confining itself within its isolated main background along with the story and characters, the movie vividly and … Continue reading
Godland (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): A priest struggling in malformed land
“Godland”, which was the Icelandic submission to Best International Film Oscar and then included in the shortlist around the end of the last year, is relentlessly cold, rigid, and bleak from the beginning to the end. I often felt distant … Continue reading
The Pope’s Exorcist (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A usual demonic stuff
Maybe because I am your average seasoned moviegoer, “The Pope’s Exorcist” mildly amuses me without scaring me that much on the whole. As I probably said before, I have seen heaps of movies about demonic possessions since I watched “The … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Exorcism, Horror, Possession, Priest, Religion
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The Priests (2015) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Two South Korean priests against a force of evil
Since the big success of “The Exorcist” (1973), there have been lots of horror movies about exorcism, but, like those zombie movies, many of them were not particularly scary to me. Although “The Exorcist” may be not that shocking any … Continue reading
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Tagged Exorcism, Horror, Possession, Priest, Religion, South Korean Film
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Calvary (2014) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : He’s going to be killed because he is a good priest
He is a good man with faith and compassion, but now he is going to be killed just because of that. “Cavalry”, a somber drama with a little touch of absurd comedy, slowly moves to its inevitable point like a … Continue reading
The Sessions (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : He just wants to lose his virginity…
Mark O’Brien’s life is one of those moving life stories we encounter from time to time. After he contacted polio when he was 6, he spent most of his life as a paralyzed man depending on iron wrong, but he … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholicism, Disability, Poet, Polio, Priest, Religion, Sex, Sex Surrogate
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Beyond the Hills (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A devastating clash between two values
Loosely based on a shocking real-life incident, Romanian film “Beyond the Hills” presents us a slow but compelling drama about two young women entangled in a simple but difficult circumstance caused by two conflicting values. While not taking sides with … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Convent, Homosexuality, Nun, Orphanage, Priest, Real-life story, Religion, The Orthodox Church
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Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A sumptuous labyrinth of stories and secrets
A young boy curious about his birth, A priest with the long past behind him. A countess who gets involved in a doomed affair and then trapped in an unhappy marriage. A count who commits cruelty out of his frustrated … Continue reading
The American (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A professional who came in from the cold
When “The American” was scheduled to be released in next week in South Korea(the release is recently postponed to the last week of this December, by the way), the trailer was shown at the screening room and the leaflets were … Continue reading
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