Tag Archives: winter

The Breaking Ice (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): A quiet triangle in one cold Chinese city

Posted on April 28, 2024 by kaist455

“The Breaking Ice”, which was selected as the Singaporean entry for Best International Film Oscar in last year, is a somber but poignant drama about three different young people who happen to be stuck together during several cold winter days … Continue reading →

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Photos from one winter afternoon(01/06/13)

Posted on January 8, 2013 by kaist455

                                                                            It was cold with snow, and the animals at the campus were hungrier than before…

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Transsiberian (2008) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A wintry thriller on the Transsiberian Express

Posted on January 5, 2013 by kaist455

  “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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The snow on the first day of 2013

Posted on January 2, 2013 by kaist455

                                                We had lots of snow in South Korea during last 5 days. It was not good for cars or pedestrians, but it provided a very good chance for my small digital camera. These photos were shot at my … Continue reading →

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Few photos from one winter day (2012/12/06)

Posted on December 6, 2012 by kaist455

                    We had a heavy snow at last night…

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A Simple Plan (1998) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : It sounded so simple at first…

Posted on January 7, 2012 by kaist455

 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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The Campus Avian gang on winter afternoon (12/03/11)

Posted on December 15, 2011 by kaist455

                  It is getting colder. They are hungry – so they extort snacks from innocent citizens.

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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Santa is alive – and he is not nice

Posted on December 13, 2011 by kaist455

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 →

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Winter’s Bone (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Her desperate determination in cold, harsh world

Posted on January 24, 2011 by kaist455

 Although its story is driven by a mystery surrounding certain missing person, the mystery only serves as a trigger for something far more than itself in “Winter’s Bone”. While we follow its heroine’s plight and wait for the answer to … Continue reading →

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