Yaksha: Ruthless Operations, The Pirates: The last Royal treasure, and The Northman. A pretty good week, overall, as it includes two very solid South Korean blockbusters and a mesmerizing Viking revenge saga. Yaksha: Ruthless Operations was co-written and directed by Na Hyeon (with An Sang-hoon being listed as a co-writer) and it stars Sol Kyung-Gu, […]
Category: Movie roundup
A bunch of movies with concise thoughts on them. Not really reviews or discussions, just impressions and takeaways from those movies after watching them.
Don’t’ kill me, Furioza, and Choose or Die. This started out as my weekly review round-up for the latest movies that I’ve seen on Netflix, but the news broke out about Netflix’s public loss of subscribers and their subsequent plans to cut back on animation projects, which sparked some reactions that I wanted to share. […]
Ambulance, Black Crab, and X. For this week’s round-up there are two highly anticipated movies and a nice surprise; Michael Bay’s new movie, a highly regarded slasher, and a futuristic action-thriller with Noomi Rapace. Starting with Ambulance which was directed by Michael Bay, written by Chris Fedak, based on a 2005 Danish movie of the […]
Against the Ice, The Privilege, Big Bug, Windfall, The House It’s been a few months of new Netflix Original movies, so I decided to do a catch-up with five of them, starting with Against the Ice. When I first saw the trailer for this, I immediately thought it was like The Terror (2018) but a […]
Death on the Nile Murder on the Orient Express (2017) was an entertaining throwback blessed with an all-star cast and great production values, which performed brilliantly at the box office returning around 350 million dollars from a 55 million dollars budget; a sequel was teased at the end and – after numerous delays due to […]
Categories
Movie roundup 9/2/2022
The Mad Hatter, The last son, and The Banishing The Mad Hatter (2021) “Elevated Horror” is a sub-genre that seems to be fairly popular these days, showcased by the rise of Ari Aster, Mike Flannagan, and Robert Eggers amongst others. Personally, I love this type of horror; I am much more invested in them and […]
Categories
Movie roundup the first
Cliff Walkers, Don’t Breathe 2, The Gateway, How it Ends One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2022 is to try and watch one movie every night. I won’t be that strict about the actual number, but I will try to get as close to 365 movies as I can; obviously, some days I will […]
Ruler of Owls 