”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…
"It's not for health reasons.
After putting on 10.000 steps,
I feel like I had a good, busy day.
It's an all-too-healthy way of escapism."
So writer/director Lee Hae-Jun knows what made me buy that rowing machine last year - splendid..
Starring Jeong JaeYeong as the male Kim and Jung Ryeo-Won as the female Kim, Castaway on the Moon opens with male Kim trying to commit suicide via jumping from the infamous Mapo Bridge in Seoul to his death in…
Creates a nice atmosphere, mostly thanks due to a splendid score by Mowg (someone release that!) and stays intriguing throughout, mostly, although one has to wonder whether some trimming would not have resulted in something more engaging, as the rather long running time also results in the mysteries being spilled out instead of remaining mysterious and thus lingering with you for a longer time.
Lily Li Li-Li kicks people in the face and there's some real fuzz coming from the guitars on the score. Obviously we end up with a nice, entertaining slice of Kung Fu cinema,
A piano sonata of revenge that, with each note, breaks a bone, peels back your skin, slits a tendon and punches and kicks your heart and gut and stops exactly a split second before it would knock you unconscious, only to build up again and leave you more devastated the next time around.
I Saw The Devil is a gorgeously crafted piece of cinema directed by Kim Jee-woon. The tale of a special ops agent played by Lee Byung-hun on…
If you look up action movie in a dictionary there's a picture of "The Raid".
"The Raid" is the very definition of an action movie. It's action movie perfection brought to life by the amazing team of writer/director/editor Gareth Evans, indonesian silat master Iko Uwais, cinematographers Matt Flannery and Dimas Imam Subhono and choreographer/antagonist/silat master Yayan Ruhian aided by a great crew.
When an elite police squad gets trapped in a run-down apartment block controlled by a drug lord shit…
