Reviews of films
You can fly if you’d only cut loose, footloose. Available in Canada, France, the United States, and maybe a few other countries. Approximately 120 minutes. Chin has decided to move out of her family’s home and into an apartment of her own. As the … Continue reading WTF ASIA 119: Taipei Story (1985)
The title of this week’s WTF ASIA movie may imply a story about five or six young people who control giant battlemechs, which can combine to form a colossal cybernetic monstrosity of justice against aliens or something. But, instead, the movie … Continue reading WTF ASIA 118: Robokon (2003)
Police brutality. Everywhere you go, police brutality. Available in Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and maybe a few other countries. Approximately 116 minutes. A year ago, Pandi had moved from Tamil Nandu to … Continue reading WTF ASIA 117: Interrogation (2015)
Welcome back, friends. I bring you another Hallmark classic titled Crown for Christmas. If you’ve read these recaps before, you know one of my most hated tropes is the American heroine who marries royalty from a nondescript country that just … Continue reading Hallmark’s Christmas in July: Crown for Christmas Recap/Review
I was a little too young to see Fahrenheit 9/11 when it first came out, but I still remember how massive the impact around the film … Continue reading Late To The Party: Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
This week’s movie is about…erm…people smugglers. And if that doesn’t get you interested then…I…uh…will hold off on mentioning the other issue. Available in Australia, Canada, France, the United States, and maybe a few other countries. Approximately 111 minutes. Kang Jeol-joo … Continue reading WTF ASIA 116: Sea Fog (2014)
Hey, everybody! Christmas in July is here! Unfortunately, due to many ongoing issues, there’s no new movie premiere. However, that just means that I’ll get to cover a selection of them sweet sweet Hallmark classics. Today, we’re looking at Snow … Continue reading Hallmark’s Christmas in July: Snow Bride Recap/Review
Once upon a time in…erm…Argentina? Available in Canada, France, the United States, and maybe a few other countries. Approximately 96 minutes. Hong Kongers Lai Yu-fai and Ho Po-wing are on vacation in Argentina, currently in a two-bed hotel room in Buenos Aires. … Continue reading WTF ASIA 115: Happy Together (1997)
Once upon a time in Japanese-occupied…uh…Japan. Available in Canada, the United States, and maybe a few other countries. Approximately 156 minutes. An island named Shodoshima. The subtitles say that this is two decades ago, meaning 1934, but then later states that it … Continue reading WTF ASIA 114: Twenty-four Eyes (1954)
Once upon a time in British-occupied India. Available in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and maybe a few other countries. Approximately 150-156 minutes. It is March 23, 1931. Bhagat Singh and two of his associates are already dead. Their … Continue reading WTF ASIA 113: The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)
Each week in Late to the Party, someone posts about an older piece of media that they’ve just experienced for the first time. On a recent Friday night, your friend Goat got exceedingly drunk and watched Sylvester Stallone’s 1986 masterpiece, Cobra. … Continue reading Late to the Party: Cobra (1986)
Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in. I like to think I’ve put childish things away. I don’t fret over cartoon reboots “ruining my childhood.” I have no opinion on the new generation of PoKemon. Go … Continue reading Movie Review: Artemis Fowl
Once upon a time in Japanese-occupied Korea. Available in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and maybe a few other countries. Approximately 145 minutes. It is the 1930s. A young mother hugs her mother and hands over her crying … Continue reading WTF ASIA 112: The Handmaiden (2016)
The Beastmaster was a TV fixture in the early 90’s. I remembered beefcake and ferrets but forgot the storyline. Turns out the plot is basic good versus evil with a dose of animal cruelty and misogyny. If you can stomach … Continue reading Movie Recap: The Beastmaster (1982)
Once upon a time in Japanese-occupied China… Available online under Guizi lai le. Approximately 138 minutes. China in early 1945 is still under the control of Japan. The blockhouse in the village of Rack-Armor Terrace is being occupied … Continue reading WTF ASIA 111: Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
This week we lost Larry Kramer. The founder of ACT UP dedicated his life to activism but was also a talented author. His screenplay for Women in Love and his script for The Normal Heart were justly celebrated. Less known … Continue reading Movie Recap: Lost Horizon (1973)
Some people cry in disgust at political corruption. Others laugh. Available online. Approximately 138 minutes. The year is 1582. General Akechi has betrayed his lord daimyo Oda Nobunaga. His forces kill both Oda and his eldest son Nobutada. A … Continue reading WTF ASIA 110: The Kiyosu Conference (2013)
The first thing one must understand about Scoob!, the latest reinvention of Warner Bros.’ seemingly evergreen Hanna-Barbera properties, is that despite what the name implies, it is not actually a Scooby-Doo movie. Beyond its origin story prologue, there are no … Continue reading Movie Review: SCOOB!
Tron meets Star Wars anyone? Alex Rogan wins an arcade game and gets recruited by the Starfighters. The CGI is expensive so he returns to Earth to faff about before the big space finale. The Last Starfighter has likable actors, … Continue reading Movie Recap: The Last Starfighter (1984)
My friend Miss Self Destruct has been providing me with movie recommendations since October 2019. She’s been helping me fill some holes on my must – see movie list with some overlooked and underrated gems. I got a care package … Continue reading Movie Review – Valley Girl (1983)
Content Warning For: Discussions of violence historical and otherwise, and embeds of disturbing imagery. Before the Blair Witch, before the Cannibal Holocaust and the band Spinal Tap, the scripted, fictionalized use of documentary formatting and filmmaking had already emerged. Film … Continue reading Succinct Cinema: The Filmography of Peter Watkins is Radicalism, Personified
