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Cloris Sopha
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two films in the Sword & Sorcery genre. LABYRINTH (1986) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars I never saw this when I was young (weird, I know) and perhaps that is some explanation for...
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. THE REVENGERS (1972) Rating: 2.5 out of 5 Stars If you go into this expecting THE WILD BUNCH, of course it will disappoint. If you go in with lower expectations, it is an enjoyable, if...
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on one new film that deserves to be singled out. LONGLEGS (2024) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars As I walked out of the theater, I breathed a sigh of relief, not that I was out of the...
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two films starring Jack Nicholson. THE PLEDGE (2001) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I felt this film was overlooked at the time of its release and I still do, though some of its...
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA CHAPTER 1 (2024) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars HORIZON CHAPTER 1 is exactly what I thought it would be: ambitious and flawed. There was no way, especially after the...
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two films in the Sword & Sorcery genre. SOLOMON KANE (2009) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars Okay, this was surprisingly good. It seemed to come and go at the time of its release...
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two new films, released during 2024. HIT MAN (2024) Rated: 3.5 out of 5 Stars Ironically, HIT MAN works because of Glen Powell and it also doesn't work because of him. The...
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on four films by one of my favorite directors, William Friedkin. SORCERER (1977) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I was not as enamored with William Friedkin's SORCERER during this recent...
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. THE LAST MANHUNT (2022) Rating: 2.5 out of 5 Stars This new Western has gorgeous cinematography, pretty shots galore in its Joshua Tree location, but it's also hollow at the core. THE LAST...
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three new films, released during 2024. FURIOSA (2024) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars What's most surprising about the new Mad Max movie is that it's worth the price of admission...
That moment, where like 50 cops just mindlessly rushed onto a scene and started shooting at the boat without direct order and/or reason to, should be in the history books as a police dumbass-ery example. You cannot interview a corpse.
It's shocking how easily forgotten the rampant Islamophobia of the decade following 9/11 was. Not to say it doesn't still exist, but Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 did a really good of capturing how Islamophobia was so close to the surface for so long, and you become desensitised to it. The 2013 media and public responses to the bombing are so blatant, wow.
And, okay, apologies for the case of whataboutism I'm about to unleash, because I too spent that day in 2013 watching CNN all day as the manhunt went on, but oof, those chants of 'USA! USA!' once Tsarnaev was in custody never did sit well with me. I get the enormous sense of loss and the feeling of relief after such a horrific week, but watching this in the aftermath of yet another school shooting, one with a higher fatality rate than this particular terrorist act, the nationalist response feels massively uncomfortable.
Auch die Hintergrnde der Tter werden aufgezeigt und es wird versucht zu ergrnden, warum sie unschuldige Zivilisten tten wollten. Grundstzlich natrlich interessant, aber wie die Dokumentation so schn sagt: Es gibt keine Entschuldigung dafr!
It leans a bit too heavily on filmmaking gimmicks for my tastes, but the interviews are well done and some of law enforcement's reckless decisions are put in proper context. Overall, would recommend for a good overview of what happened during that fateful week in Boston.
Ken Takakura Ryoko Nakano Yoshio Harada Ryō Ikebe Hideji Ōtaki Taketoshi Naitō Kō Nishimura Mitsuko Baisho Kunie Tanaka Eiji Okada Kai Ato Koreharu Hisatomi Hiroko Isayama Shin'ya Ohwada Tappei Shimokawa Yoshio Yoshida
A prosecutor goes on the run after being framed for a couple of (actually very minor) crimes. I mean, it was just a ring and a camera that he was accused of stealing. That's the level of crime that warrants a nationwide manhunt in Japan, I guess. Anyway, nothing particularly interesting happens over the course of the movie's unconscionable two and a half hours, aside from a hilarious bear attack and an utterly bonkers score. If you've seen the Fugitive then there's no need to see this, unless you want to see the inspiration for John Woo's also underwhelming remake from a few years ago.
The whole film you can see why this had immense transnational flow through Mainland China in the late 1970s cementing Takakura Ken as the image of cool suave foreigner. A bit long, but it was needed to fit every batshit insane plot twist, double cross, and bear attack in.
Knowing John Woo just directed a remake of the film in the past two years, it was hard not to see the influence or impact the film had on him as a young aspiring director. Sato Junya was the go to action director of the 1970s and a person Kadokawa relied on repeatedly to shoot life into his larger scale action pictures in the 1980s and his comeback in 2005 with Yamato.
This was a fun whodunnit/chase movie that took some really strange and unexpected twists along the way but somehow throughout all of it and even wild tone of soundtrack it manages to work and be an enjoyable experience!
Revisited this after a while and I gotta say that it still whips. Love the leitmotif. First time watch was back in 2017, to get some context for its remake. I can definitely see why Ken Takakura became an icon in China, this being one of the first films released post Cultural Revolution.
My favorite parts of the film are the campy zoom ins, the pulpy Japanese music added to an otherwise very serious, suspenseful, brooding plot, as well as that entire sequence at the mental institution - 2.5 out of the 3.5 stars are for that institution sequence.
A two and a half hour thriller that barely pauses for breath. It manages to cram in everything from fighting a bear to riding horses through the streets of Tokyo to the lead getting himself committed. But other than the final act it struggled to build tension. Though as it continually pushes the story forward that's not a huge negative here.
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Sam Neill Julian Dennison Rima Te Wiata Rachel House Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne Oscar Kightley Stan Walker Mike Minogue Cohen Holloway Rhys Darby Troy Kingi Taika Waititi Hamish Parkinson Stu Giles Lloyd Scott Selina Woulfe Mabelle Dennison Sonia Spyve Timothy Herbert John Campbell Mihingarangi Forbes Nadine Higgins Sam Wallace
A whirlwind of emotions. One minute i'm sad and the next im laughing my ass off. Topped with a nice soundtrack Hunt for the Wilderpeople takes the spot as my favourite movie of the year. Taika Waititi does it again! I implore you to watch it the first chance you get. You will not be disappointed!
Animation has continuously been considered one of the most effective and versatile creative outlets in feature-length filmmaking, always finding new ways to push beyond the barriers for what is possible. Even with the current decade not even being halfway done yet, there are already a high number of beautiful and powerful animated works of art that will surely stay in the conversation long after the 2020s are over.
As far as deciding which animated films have been the best of the decade, there are few better places to find answers than the quintessential film platform of the decade, Letterboxd. Acting as the leading community for younger film fans in the current digital era, Letterboxd's user base has approached cinema in a distinctly unique way. With an increased focus on worldwide filmmaking ventures and artistic visionaries, the platform is made for the most dedicated film fans of today. These are Letterboxd's choices for the best and most daring animated films of the 2020s, a mix of delightful adventures, emotional tales, and groundbreaking masterpieces.
Acting as the cinematic finale to one of the most legendary and longest-running Adult Swim animated series, The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart takes place right where the series left off, with a nationwide manhunt for Hank Venture. While seemingly everyone in the world tries to find Hank, a number of devastating secrets and long-since-forgotten foes from the past threaten to tear down everything that these characters have worked for, forcing them to work together to either save the Ventures or end it once and for all.
The Venture Bros. has continuously been a fan favorite series for 20 years on Adult Swim, and Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart does its best to act as the perfect, bittersweet finale to the story and characters. It features just about everything a fan could ask for, from hilarious tongue-in-cheek comedy to effective character moments that help recontextualize the series. Even for those not acclimated with The Venture Bros., the action and comedy work wonders in making the film an effective standalone experience.
A beautiful Spanish-French animated film that tells a weaving story of friendship and acceptance without having to speak a word of dialogue, Robot Dreams is a truly special work of art. The film follows Dog, a canine living in Manhattan who is tired of living life alone and decides to build himself a new robot companion. The friendship between Dog and Robot slowly blossoms as they spend their time exploring the beauty of 1980s Manhattan. Alas, like all great things, it must eventually come to an end.
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