Norwegian cinema has never been better. If someone had told me a decade ago that in 2024 I'd have two Norwegian films in my top five movies of the year I would have laughed. Unfortunately I wasn't able to catch Loveable in theaters, but after watching it now, it has made me decide to go watch 'The Ugly Stepsister' this week. If you're reading this and you're Norwegian I urge you to take this as your reminder to go support…
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Mickey 17 2025
Bong Joon Ho's follow up to the incredible Parasite feels more in line with his other English language work like Okja and Snowpiercer. Anything he makes is worth anticipating, and living up to Parasite is no small task. Honestly I can't fault anyone for either loving or disliking this, there's a lot here that's gonna work for some and then again not for others, you might even like one of the halves more than the other depending on what engages…
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Cinderella Man 2005
Wow. Just wow. I fell in love with this film, and yet again I fell in love with Russell Crowe, definitely one of my favorite actors. I can't believe I'm giving full score to a movie with Renée Zellweger in it, is it just me who can't stand her? But in all fairness, she was good in this one.
Ron Howard, you're really getting up there with my favorite directors now. Here he has made a brilliant film. This film…
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The Flowers of War 2011
Jin líng shí san chai (The Flowers of War), a Chinese movie, but starring Christian Bale in the leading role. Yimou Zhang, also the director of House of Flying Daggers, has with this film shown me that he is certainly a great filmmaker. The movie contains a lot of strong and brutal scenes, so this movie is probably not for the fainthearted viewers.
Inspired by true events, The Flowers of War is set to 1937, during the horrific events called…
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