Art House… Movie #72 2022: Oldboy (2003) 8 Sep 20225 Sep 2022 Can you believe this movie has been sitting in my DVD collection for 18 months and I only watched it last week? Even though I knew that it is critically…
Cerebral… Movie #216 2021: The Wailing (2016) 6 Nov 20216 Nov 2021 Everyone's obsessed with Squid Game, aren't they? Don't know if you've noticed. I get it: it's pretty good. But something tells me that most of the people who are really…
Art House… Movie #124 2021: Caché (2005) 11 May 20214 May 2021 After an onslaught of big blockbusters and sweet animated movies (with the exception of a little Danish gem), it was time to cleanse my palate with some poncey French filmmaking.…
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.…
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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