Overall grade: 95 Acting: 4/5 Directing: 5/5 Writing: 5/5 Filming: 5/5 I finally got around to seeing The Housemaid (2010). Before talking about the movie, I must encourage everyone to watch the first 5 minutes. It is one of the best dissections of Korean night life I’ve ever seen. As for the movie, it was [...]
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I finally got around to seeing The Housemaid (2010). Before talking about the movie, I have to encourage people to watch the first 5 minutes. It is one of the best dissections of Korean night life I’ve ever seen. It has almost everything: singing rooms, fish restaurants, barbecue coals, ahjummas doing back-breaking work, ahjummas speed [...]
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Before I moved to Korea I immersed myself in Korean movies — at least as much as I could via Netflix (which doesn’t offer all that much). I remember watching the movies and feeling like I was in some bizarre dreamland. The movies were very similar to Hollywood, but something was always off. Small things [...]
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I haven’t been keeping up with the blog because I started re-watching The Wire, and I just finished Season 3… for the fourth time. If you’ve never seen The Wire, the best way to summarize is to just say that it’s a crime drama set in Baltimore that focuses equally on the detectives, drug dealers, drug [...]
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Fantastic Mr. Fox Fantastic Mr. Fox is far and away my favorite movie of the year. It was perfect in almost every way. The writing was hilarious; the story was great — bunch of wild animals band together to defeat the evil farmers who are upset due to one fox’s (George Clooney) overactive ego. There’s [...]
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As you may know, I’m doing my own Oscar balloting this year since my opinion tends to better than the majority of the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (at least in my opinion). Basically, I took the 8 highest grossing movies of 2009 and the 8 most well-reviewed films of [...]
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A few weeks ago I had this great idea to do a movie playoff. I took the 8 highest grossing films and the 8 highest scoring Metacritic films and paired them up against each other.* It turned out to be a dumb idea, but what it did do was allow me to watch movies in [...]
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