joe shuai

joe shuai

Favorite films

  • The Man Who Laughs
  • The Clock
  • Bullet Boy
  • Memories of Underdevelopment

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  • The Electric State

    ★½

  • The Nose

    ★★★

  • The Overcoat

  • Tale of Tales

    ★★★★

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★½

    Millie Bobby Brown was such a cute kid in Stranger Things S01. Adorable. By season 02 or 03 she was just an annoying teen. And that red head came into the show and totally upstaged her.

    (I abandoned after S03. Boring af)

    I don’t know anything about MBB but was surprised to see her in this. Didn’t think she could lead a film. She is somehow lacking in star quality. She just doesn’t have what Clara Bow had.

    And I…

  • The Nose

    The Nose

    ★★★

    Pinscreen animation of one of Gogol’s most famous short stories, the comedically whimsical The Nose, which is one of his best (though I found The Tale of Two Ivan’s his funniest short).

    Anyway the guy loses his nose which runs away and all around town.

    Odd music on this. Sounds like Chinese or Japanese. But maybe it’s just a balalaika and I can’t distinguish. Given it’s Russian, there’s a 99% chance thats the case.

    An interesting one. Interesting to see…

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ½

    Given that Bong Joon Ho’s two other English language films, Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017), were ABSOLUTE GARBAGE, to the point it was hard to believe the guy who had made Memories of Murder (2003) and would go on to make Parasite (2019) had made them, I was expecting this to be total rubbish since I first heard it was in production two years ago.

    I don’t know if it’s a language problem (in interviews it is clear he is…

  • Gimme Shelter

    Gimme Shelter

    ★★★

    I don’t know. Yeah their music is excellent. But I don’t like watching The Rolling Stones. But whatever.

    Didn’t know about this person dying. Interesting enough documentary.

    Love Wild Horses.

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