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Burning - 2018, South Korean
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 274
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.
Elite Squad - The Enemy Within - Brazil, 2010
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 229
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...
The Secret Agent - Brazil, 2025
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 199
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.
The Vegan Cafe
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Other
- Hits: 154
There’s a couple, but I’d wanted to hit this one again, get my filling of leafy greens and vegetables. I choose the Chicken Caesar Wrap, with fried cauliflower as the mock chicken and some - initially tasty but soon repugnant processed food dressing. The side soup somehow manages to be even worse. Vegetable soup, a few scant vegetables boiled in the water they rinsed them with with a few scraps of kale thrown in. It’s appalling; and even the moral superiority of vegetarians doesn’t make this any better. These people, they’re cannibals. Vegetarian food doesn't have to be this bad. Never again.
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