≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Year: 2001
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
So, what are we to make of Bad Guy, from director and poet of the perverse Kim Ki-Duk?
While in downtown Seoul, pimp Han-ki (Jae-hyeon Jo) fixates on college girl Sun-hwa (Won Seo). He sits down on a park bench next to her. When she finally notices […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Mainstream, Movie Reviews By Country, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Mainstream/ Art
Director: Stephen Daldry
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When The Readers was in theaters, I remember reading all sorts of scathing reviews. However, my wife really wanted to see the movie, and besides, critics are frequently full of crap, right? So I decided to watch it on DVD, anyway.
For a while, […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Romance/ Comedy
Director: Ha Yu
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Once Upon a Time in High School is an unexpected delight. With that title, I was expecting a ton of martial arts and junior varsity gangster stuff, with comic overtones. Instead, Once Upon a Time in High School is a memory […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Director: Rodrigo García
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Passengers seems to have a semi-interesting concept. How do people adjust to being survivors of a major disaster like an airline crash?
Claire (Anne Hathaway) is a psychologist who specializes in counseling such people. Eric (Patrick Wilson) is one of a half dozen or so survivors […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Movie Reviews By Country, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/Drama/Suspense
Director: Yoon-Hyun Chang
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Some is proof that competent filmmaking is not enough — you have to have an elegant, concise script to go along with it.
Some begins with Seo Yu-jin (Ji-hyo Song) experiencing her own death. In her own mind, she rewinds to the present and wakes up.
Okay, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
My first thought when I started watching There Will Be Blood is that it would be a hatchet job on capitalism and religion, but writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is up to something more interesting and elusive.
When we first meet Daniel Plainview (Daniel […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Year: 2005
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first image in A Bittersweet Life is the swaying of tree limbs in the wind. On the soundtrack, a narrator tells us of a disciple who asked his master, “Which is moving, the wind or the trees?” The master answers, “Neither. It’s your heart and […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Tom Tykwer
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
On the one hand, the subject of international banking, and it’s links to third world debt, arms dealing, and tinpot dictators, couldn’t be more timely. Yet, with all its clandestine meetings and skulking around, The International is a throwback to spy thrillers of yore.
I […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Exploitation/ Pinku Eiga
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuji
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I’m not sure whether the filmmakers behind Zero Woman R merely have contempt for their audience or if they’re truly incompetent. They start off which a potentially compelling premise, decent actors, and attractive women and wind up with a snooze fest that […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Fantasy
Director: Alex Proyas
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Considering that Knowing is a movie about the end of the world, it isn’t all that scary. It has the languid and fantastic quality of a dream. This is in part because of some unconvincing CGI, but for once it doesn’t really wreck the movie. […]