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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 70
About North and South Korean spies investigating a Russian Human Trafficking ring. Action, Big Bad Russian Boss, in the Film the North Koreans are the bad guys and think that "Cross" makes a fine pen (I'd vilify them to), the Russians are the worst (the predictable "Boss" fight at the end) and - while by-and-largely completely mindless, the Americans wouldn't have done it better and would probably have put it up for an Academy Award were it made by them.
S0 - not the worst, not the best, been craving some South Korean film/culture/pov but this wasn't it. Still, if your just killing time on Netflix you could do worse.
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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About a criminally insane genius who plots the overthrow of civilization and runs a vast criminal enterprise from beyond the grave.
Everyone smokes everywhere they please, the yo-yo is a favourite a pastime of the police, and for a film made in 1933 it's almost entirely modern in it's sets and furniture. There's the deranged patient and psychiatrist - his office filled with for art - masks of different tribes, various deformed human skulls (a-la Mutter Museum), the paintings of patients or other lunatics, Dr. Mabuse is - in a sense - the original "Joker", set out to upend the world for it’s own sake, the pleasure of it, and there are surprisingly innovative techniques - for example the cut from mugshot to the scene.
Still, almost a hundred years later a great film, only we've forgotten who the villains are; Dr. Mabuse's manifesto was not intended to become the roadmap for 20th century capitalism...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 162
An unsettling psychological thriller about a man - Lee Jong-su, who meets an old childhood friend - Shin Hae-mi, who persuades him to housesit her cat while she's on vacation. And when she returns from vacation she brings a new friend - Ben, whom she met while stranded 3 days at an airport.
From here, events build. An unlikely protagonist, an unsettled plot, another brilliant film that simply wouldn't be made in Hollywood.
Five Stars for those looking for a little more challenging films.
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 125
Summary - battling corruption in Brazil's Police, Politics and Favela's. For a police/crime movie, very well done, and probably doesn't stray far from the truth. Were it set in present day America it would be merely telling the truth...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 111
About a former professor fleeing persecution under the Military Dictatorship that was Brazil in 1977.
Well done, period, well acted, a look into a former political clime and place...
These foreign films, they're head and shoulders above anything being produced in Hollywood.