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Tag Archives: Train
Transsiberian (2008) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A wintry thriller on the Transsiberian Express
“Transsiberian” is a Hitchcockian thriller decorated with icy wintry landscapes, and it is a good example. It sets its tone right at the beginning, and then it carefully develops its unstable feeling as loading the story and the characters on … Continue reading
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Tagged Detective, Drug trafficking, Husband and Wife, Murder, Siberia, snow, Thriller, Train, winter
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I Wish (2011) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Two little brothers reaching for miracle
“I Wish” is a gentle, funny, poignant, sensitive, insightful and optimistic story about two little brothers reaching for miracle. Although I missed the chance to watch it when it was released at South Korean theaters around the end of the … Continue reading
Source Code (2011) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Clever SF thriller within repeated 8 minutes
Above all, “Source Code” is something I welcome without hesitation: a smart SF thriller with efficiency and skills. Its scientific settings are a little too shaky and ambiguous, and, to be frank with you, I had to operate some parallel … Continue reading





