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  Wolf's Calling 2019

  Watched 25 Feb 2024

  Without the context of Toshiaki Toyoda's anger with the Japanese government, his Resurrection Trilogy becomes a little difficult to follow. There's a pulsing fury that gives it life, but it's not exactly aimless. It helps to know some parts of the director's beef - his displeasure with the authorities' coronavirus response, his false arrest for possession of marijuana and a (decommissioned) firearm - so when you hop into something like Wolf's Calling, you'll at least have some vague inkling of…

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  The Day of Destruction 2020

  Watched 25 Feb 2024

  "All kinds of disgrace and sins, now purified, refreshed. The end of the epidemic at Mt. Resurrection-Wolf. Funeral procession on its own path."

  In a bad luck town on the bad end of the world, its people are caught in the grips of a demon no one else has ever seen. Yet they've grown to accept their fates, even if they might scream on occasion to let out all the badness inside them. The Day of Destruction is a movie…

Popular reviews

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  Heneral Luna 2015

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Sep 2015

  Let's talk about General Luna.

  General Luna, the infamous Filipino general with a temper as passionate as his feelings for his country. General Luna, the crazy soldier with the crazy temper, and didn't care who he stepped on, as long as he got where he needed to be. General Luna, the only real military genius the Philippines has ever had, who ended up being killed by his own countrymen anyway.

  Now, let's talk about this movie.

  What this movie gets…

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  Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 2004

  ★★ Watched 03 Apr 2017 3

  Take everything that made the first movie good, but make it slightly more different by writing additional paragraphs of dialogue, and by giving the creators an extra 20 minutes to play around with their computers. Just because you can quote Buddha, Descartes, Confucius, and the Bible all in one breath, doesn't mean you're already an intellectual. What that makes you, is a snobby pretentious old prick who obviously has nothing else to do in life besides read stuffy books. It's…