This is kind of a rambling mess, & that's pretty standard for me... but I felt a warning was necessary! I will also say that there are some mild spoilers - but I would wholeheartedly argue that they are ultimately of little importance to understanding this film.
Right Now, Wrong Then is an interesting film to watch when you understand the context of the romantic relationship between the film's (married) director, Hong Sang-soo, and its star, Kim Min-hee. A film director,…
Fresh off having rewatched director Hong Sang-soo's previous effort Right Now, Wrong Then, I decided to revisit On the Beach at Night Alone. On the Beach at Night alone is ostensibly a character study about an actress, Young-hee (Kim Min-hee), who is reeling from the dissolution of an affair between herself and an older, married director. In the first act she wonders listlessly around Hamburg, Germany, trying to escape her past but never quite able to clear her mind. The…
Undeniably stupid with some unbelievably shitty CGI, dialogue and accents, Van Helsing is still camp, entertaining fun. 12 year old me though this movie was pretty sick. 31 year old me agrees.
Honestly way better than it needed to be. Abigail is a whole lot of fun. The performances are BIG, but only as big as the need to be, specifically from Alisha Weir, who portrays the titular Abigail and does a fantastic job. Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kevin Durand, Kathryn Newton & Angus Cloud round out the cast; they all know the assignment, and they're having a lot of fun. Abigail may be criminally short on scares and the twists and turns…
Save the Green Planet! may be the most chaotic film I have ever seen. Directed by Jang Joon-hwan, it concerns an unhinged young man named Lee Byeong-gu (Shin Ha-kyun), who kidnaps a businessman, Kang Man-shik (Baek Yoon-sik), who Byeong-gu believes is an alien with nefarious designs for Earth. What follows is a frantically-paced & genre-bending film that defies expectations at every turn. At 118 minutes and with a narrative that marches on relentlessly, it can be rather exhausting. Jang Joon-hwan's creative…
No wonder Isabelle Huppert chose to work with Claude Chabrol so many times - he created some of the most nuanced and fascinating characters I have seen. And no wonder Chabrol so often chose Huppert to be his star - what other actress could so completely embody and enliven these characters?
Une affaire de femmes (Story of Women) tells the story of Marie Latour (Huppert), a French housewife living in poverty during World War 2 with her two young children…
