It has been precisely a year today since I watched Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and, upon reading my mutuals' reviews, learned that one of them, whom I actually knew in real life, Micha, known as schneeland to folks on here and to readers of his blog, or listeners of the podcasts he has worked on and contributed to, had passed away in December 2021.
"Replies are disabled for memorialized accounts." are words you don't want to read on a…
Has some good set pieces, but overdoes it a bit with the chase sequences, making them tedious and only flirts with the compelling contemplation of Indy's mortality. It's mediocre or bad parts manage to be less offensive than what's bad about Crystal Skull though - but at the end of the day both the late and the super late Indy adventure manage to be nothing more but solid films that feel like afterthoughts that miss most of the essence of what made the Adventureman trilogy great (Yes, that's a Redlettermedia reference).
Moderately entertaining, which makes it a fair step down from the first one. Ben Wheatley went from "This might be interesting if flawed." to "What a weaksauce studio director like a thousand others." surprisingly quickly. And I'll be here for M3G anyway, hoping there'll be more of what this has in common with Ebola Syndrome - POV mouth shots.
”I'm just an actor playing a king. You really are Yuji.”
Farewell My Concubine is a 171 minute epic that spans 53 years and is as much a behind the scenes look into the Peking Opera and their schools, a love triangle involving a woman and a man after the affection of a second man and a portrayal of Chinese history including the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Cultural Revolution. And to top it all the story mirrors that of…
"Silenced" is one depressing and important piece of South Korean drama cinema. Based on real events it tells the story of a young man who gets a job as an art teacher at a school for deaf children. He's shocked by the abusive behaviour of his colleagues towards the children but the truth he uncovers is even more terrifying. And such is the helplessness he faces when public authorities don't want to take him seriously and the legal system does…
