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Electric Mole 2003
love how nonchalantly she belts out some of the greatest pop and rock songs of her generation. the way she ends Tadashii Machi here is cool as hell. the band are outstanding too, particularly Hiizumi Masayukis contributions on piano. its interesting to hear the Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana songs played with a live band compared with the intricately arranged studio versions. Kuki, my favourite song of hers, without the strings and with the extended guitar outro ending the piece,…
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A Bride for Rip Van Winkle: Serial Edition 2016
the core material is so strong that Iwai gets away with it, but this is unambiguously weaker than the Japanese theatrical version. obviously this is in total an hour longer than the original movie, but what it isnt is "all the scenes from the original + one hour of extra content". in fact, some scenes are prolonged and added as youd expect, but some scenes are also lost to fit the television structure of six episodes with equal runtimes. the…
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Avengers: Infinity War 2018
This is what happens when your franchise suffers a decade's worth of technological stagnation and chronically inept characterisation. No matter who reunited, kissed, hugged or died, I didn't feel a thing. And on top of that, there's no understanding of how to inventively direct action. I simply cannot understand how Marvel, with all their money and power and all the people supposedly behind their ideas, consistently fail to get fight scenes right in an action movie franchise.
This movie is…