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Recent reviews

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  Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii 1972

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Spiritual experience.. how can I not love any Pink Floyd film I watch?

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  Late Spring 1949

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  The plot of this movie is quite similar to that of Autumn Afternoon. The difference is that the unwed daughter, Setsuko Hara here, is much more unrestrained in her actions. She has no qualms calling Mr Onodera filthy for remarrying or showing her displeasure to her father or aunt about their efforts to get her married. Her facial expressions tell a thousand words. It's a very bittersweet film, especially with the ending.

Popular reviews

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  Kisapmata 1981

  ★★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2023 3

  Mike de Leon #1

  Off to a great start. Every moment in this domestic horror tale drips with tension and suspense. The music is especially disconcerting and Silayan gives one of the best male performances I have seen as a domineering, patriarchal tyrant.

  The film is equally scathing as a portrayal and criticism of the Marcos dictatorship. Everyone who stands by and watches is equally victim and perpetrator of the overbearing oppression that befalls them. And when the dictator falls, he takes everyone with him.

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  Riceboy Sleeps 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Apr 2023

  Lovely new release. The director mentioned he used 16mm film to specifically achieve that 'photo album' feel and it works perfectly. I also liked the use of changing aspect ratios. We start out with 4:3 to express the cramped nature of So-Young's life. She faces a wall at work and simply returns home to be closed in by four walls again. Then, when the single mom and her son go to South Korea in the third act, there are a…