Awards Season… Movie #35 2022: Drive My Car (2021) 8 Apr 20224 Apr 2022 Drive My Car is a tough one for me to review. There's a lot going on within it... but also seemingly very little? In fact, I'm not entirely sure what…
Animation… Movie #167 2021: Your Name. (2016) 30 Jun 202120 Jun 2021 In the western world, Studio Ghibli is by far and away the most famous name in Japanese animation. Unless you count Pokémon, of course. Enter new kid on the block,…
Animation… Movie #36 2021: Castle in the Sky (1986) 11 Feb 20211 Feb 2021 Yeah, I watched two animated films in a row. And what? To be fair to my choices, this could not be more different to Balto, so pipe down. Castle in…
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…
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…
Action… Movie #82 2020: Battle Royale (2000) 10 Apr 20208 Apr 2020 For those of you who don't know, Battle Royale is a cult dystopian action thriller made in Japan. Yes, once again you might be put off because of the subtitles,…
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