Drama… Movie #28 2021: Still Walking (2008) 3 Feb 202126 Jan 2021 Here’s the truth: I loved Like Father, Like Son so much that I couldn’t wait to watch another one of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s other films. And so I came to this…
Drama… Movie #26 2021: Like Father, Like Son (2013) 1 Feb 202125 Jan 2021 You know when some directors just hit different? That’s Hirokazu Kore-eda. Sometimes, it doesn’t matter if he speaks a different language linguistically, because the language he speaks spiritually is universal.…
Animation… Movie #24 2021: The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) 30 Jan 202122 Jan 2021 Two Studio Ghibli movies in one month? What a treat! Perhaps slightly less lauded than Princess Mononoke is The Secret World of Arrietty, which is also known as simply Arrietty…
Animation… Movie #1 2021: Princess Mononoke (1997) 7 Jan 20214 Jan 2021 We're back to square one! The first movie of 2021; the first movie in a batch of first watches for me in a new year. To say I'm excited about…
Art House… Movie #348 2020: Ema (2019) 13 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 It feels like a while since there's been a weird indie movie on The Quayside Review. It also feels like a while since there's been something one would categorise as…
Horror… Movie #307 2020: #Alive (2020) 14 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 Back to some Halloween-y horror now, and this time we head all the way east to South Korea. As you're probably aware by now, my girlfriend and I are big…
Drama… Movie #182 2020: Force Majeure (2014) 31 May 202028 May 2020 In an effort to watch more World Cinema that isn't Korean or Japanese, Force Majeure came to my attention and is highly recommended by a vast majority of film critics.…
Drama… Movie #174 2020: The Farewell (2019) 27 May 202024 May 2020 Off the back of her radio story What You Don't Know, Lulu Wang brings us its film adaptation, titled The Farewell. Semi-autobiographical in nature, The Farewell is a deep insight…
Drama… Movie #161 2020: Audition (1999) 20 May 20201 Nov 2021 Before going into this, I was under the assumption that it was a horror film. Well, this ain't a horror, this is a weird, psycho-thriller with a horrific ending. Audition…
Cerebral… Movie #159 2020: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) 19 May 202015 May 2020 Theme of the week is trilogies, apparently. Off the back of finishing the trio of movies in the Cornetto Trilogy, I begin with a new one. Aptly named 'The Vengeance…
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