You damn monkey.
Following the first 6 chapters of Journey to the West, Monkey King Sun Wukong refuses to bow down or be ridiculed by the heavens. Being around 20 odd chapters into the historic novel right now, and a handful of episodes into the 1980s show, I am currently very endeared by this mischievous little monkey. The animation here is gorgeous and fluid, with Wukong’s design being utterly perfect, and clearly influencing future adaptations. In fact the mannerisms and…
Retconning the canon of the previous 5 films in the last movie of a franchise is a really hard thing to pull off - something The Final Chapter doesn’t manage to do. Featuring genuinely some of the worst action scene editing that I have ever had the displeasure to see, awful pacing and a stupid narrative, I actually hoped Alice would die in this one just so she could be released from the torture. Iain Glen picked up a lot…
The most gently homoerotic soviet crime film there is. Freedom for Yuri Detochkin!
How does a 10 minute Soviet cartoon make me feel alive and yet makes me want to cry like a baby
