Probably one of Maggie Cheung’s greatest performances in this romantic classic, box office hit from Hong Kong. Oh, and probably the best use of Mickey Mouse in a non Disney movie.
Maggie as a McDonald’s worker with her McC cap becomes almost as iconic as Maggie in WKW’s In the Mood for Love. She’s superb as a tough as nails girl from Mainland China, trying to make it big in Hong Kong in the mid 80s. There she meets another…
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Comrades, Almost a Love Story 1996
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Velvet Goldmine 1998
This gets so many things right that it’s disappointing that in the end it does not amount to much. Just a lot of glitter.
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A Different Man 2024
Movies have become increasingly bad and increasingly pretentious. There was a time when an unknown director turning out a dud like this would have caused derision, but now Sebastian Stan gets a Golden Globe nom for a nothing performance.
This is your typical Faust/Cinderella story when a character gets his wish and lives to regret it. So there’s nothing new here, oh, wait, there is, the character who gets the Faustian bargain is afflicted with neurofibromatosis, as The Elephant Man.…Translated from by -
Wish 2023
Starts off a little slow but then picks steam and becomes a great action adventure, with endearing characters, visually striking animation and an inspiring (revolutionary?) message.
Surprisingly the movie goes darker than some of the latest Disney films, with a very nasty villain and some heady political subjects like government oppression ad metaphysical ones like depositing your hopes in another entity leading to spiritual death. If I’m making it sound boring, it is not. And no it’s not Bergman or…Translated from by
