-
Recent Posts
- The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A devastating docudrama to reckon with
- The Smashing Machine (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): A mildly unconventional sports drama from Benny Safdie
- Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): Still Relentless as ever
- Top Secret! (1984) ☆☆☆(3/4): A silly but hilariously free-wheeling parody
- Queen of Chess (2026) ☆☆☆(3/4): The story of a trail-blazing female chess player
- Once We Were Us (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Looking back at when they were in love
- Flowers of Shanghai (1998) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Distant but exquisite anyway
- Good Morning (1959) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4): They want a TV…
- Wuthering Heights (2026) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A cheeky but ultimately hollow adaptation
- Humint (2026) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A slick but bland genre product
Blogroll
Interesting Windows
Movies
Categories
Meta
Archives
My Photos
-
Join 837 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 1,225,709 hits
Seongyong’s Twitter
Tweets by kaist455
Tag Archives: Santa Claus
Violent Night (2022) ☆☆(2/4): An insipidly violent Christmas flick
“Violent Night”, which is currently available on Netflix in South Korea, wants to be a viciously and violently funny Christmas flick, and I do not mind that, but, boy, what an insipid piece of work it is. While its one-joke … Continue reading
Dear Santa (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): Operation Santa
Although the holiday season of 2020 is over now, I must confess that I need some extra holiday cheer before officially beginning the first week of 2021, and Dana Nachman’s documentary film “Dear Santa” thankfully provided that to me. While … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Children, Christmas, Documentary, Real-life story, Santa Claus
Leave a comment
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Santa is alive – and he is not nice
To anyone who wants to watch an offbeat movie for the upcoming holiday season, “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale” can be a nice mixed bag full of the goodies to be appreciated. The movie is a dark, amusing horror fantasy … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Boy, Fantasy, Father and son, Folklore, Horror, Reindeer, Santa Claus, winter
2 Comments





