This kind of felt like Michelle Yeoh in another Mummy movie except it's her being like Brendan Fraser traversing through a desert and kicking a little bit more ass, or some shit like that. A dated, supremely 2000s adventure through the dunes of Dunhuang, a romp through old Buddhist caves or whatever, a touch of Tibet, and Dane Cook's chest hair.
She might be a superstar now but she fucking sucked, along with many others from this cast that I…
Been a few years too long since I've caught up with another Zhang Yimou movie. I never really knew that he tackled this time period complete with the political performance troupe element that I've seen depicted in other films set around the Cultural Revolution. Remarkably different than what I usually prefer with his visual style yet this one is still replete with so much gray that represents something much sadder and more relatable than Shadow. Starts out so tumultuous but…
“Fifty years later, audiences might still be watching it, and say 'during the 90s or the millenium, someone made this great film, remember?'”
Maggie so eloquently expressing the most obvious truth about her early retirement that hit me after watching In the Mood for Love again and another classic, Center Stage.
She knew what kind of meaningful works she was getting into with Wong or other directors, she did them, she captivated, and now she’s all done.
“I think these achievements can last an eternity. Money can’t buy that.”
QUEEN.
Still stunned at the initial moments of Layan being introduced as such a bully then having a circle of peers surround her while she strummed a rendition of one of my favorite, most beautiful Mashrou' Leila songs. That was a jaw-dropper, but the rest of the soundtrack will add quite a few Arab indie sounds to your library.
This series features every truth, struggle, hypocrisy, drama, sadness, and trauma of high school bullshit compounded by the sexist, unfathomable, double standards…
