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A Man Called Otto (2022)
"A Man Called Ove" for the American Audience so it's Otto
I watched this on Netflix. It's a lovely-paced and beautifully-shot movie. It's extremely touching; moving and so incredibly sad and pongent.
Otto is dealing with the recent demise of his wife; Sonya Andersson. He realises his own medical issues are a problem too. He also wants to be with Sonya immediately so tries to commit suicide in many different ways which are all shot beatifully with so much raw emotion.
A friend of mine committed suicide a few years' ago so this movie made me cry a lot. It's extremely moving and something people need to see to understand grief and dealing with grief and the stages of remorse which one goes through in life to eventual acceptance and helping others with their problems.
Otto's life journey is documented in this movie. It's moving and gracious and wonderful as well as grumpy; quirky and resilent and combative. He is the perfect example of a hard-working citizen doing his best to get by.
A masterclass in acting from Tom Hanks and Mariana Treviño as well as Truman Hanks; Mack Bayda and many others. Great acting and a really strong storyline. Superb!
Don't Move (2024)
Sleak; Style and Substance. Superb Suspense!
Stunning acting. Amazing direction. Superb use of audio and shock tactic close-ups. Great dynamic sound usage. Focal point on two protagonists with Kelsey Asbille playing Iris and Finn Wittrock playing Richard.
The rest is a supporting cast. It's all shot-on-location in a simple wooded forest with a few extra cabin shots and a lake sequence at the end.
SFX is minimum and the gore shots are great and it's got some top slasher moments but it's not ott and it's about the character development and the dialogue and the psychosis of being drugged.
I have been a patient myself and the affect of the visuals on psychosis before you pass out is absolutely-nailed. I think the production team did a fab job! You go into this weird deep trance and just fall asleep. Then they operate on you.
The Direction is great. It's a slow-burn and refreshing. I don't get the low rates. It's honestly super-enjoyable and just a great old school suspense thriller movie. It's about the slow-burn. Fight scenes are well-choreographed as well! Nice job!
Woman of the Hour (2023)
Strong Directional Debut
It's a nice debut from Anna Kendrick. It's well-polished; superbly-shot and the interaction and acting is solid. I'm seeing that other reviewers are suggesting that they had a lot of creative influence for the movie. This happens a lot in cinema; sadly. However what has been done has been executed well and it is excellent suspense in the style of Hitchcock. The acting; especially by Anna Kendrick; Daniel Zovatto and Nicolette Robinson with a good supporting cast to back-it-up!
I dig the locations and adore the vintage diner and the gas station. There is an absolutely top-class tracking shot as one of the victims runs near the end. It's really a superb shot! I like the style and it has plenty of weight and substance. Anna is definitely one-to-look-out-for. As a debut goes this is a very solid effort and deserves a 7/10 for portraying a difficult subject with grace and humanity. Nice job!
The Union (2024)
Straight-To-Netflix Does Bourne. Poorly.
It's just a clone of Jason Bourne with a ridculous sub-plot that the actor somehow wakes-up in London after falling in New Jersey; flight-time alone is 7.5 hours; and feels no jet leg and starts running around doing these crazy mission sequences.
The intro training is just ridiculous. You don't go from an average driver to a fully-trained spec pro in a few days' time. There is too slick too polished action and the roof sequences is just absolutely stolen from Jason Bourne.
It's not got the context or the storyline of Bourne and it's expensive but feels cheap. It's a film which is now not at all original. The chemistry with Roxanne Hall (Halle Berry) and Mike McKenna (Mark Wahlberg) is forced.
Not even the great acting from Mike Colter (who was excellent as Luke Cage) can save this storyline. It's a vey tired and cliche spy thriller. It's got some nice stunt sequences and gags and the stunt team did a wonderful job.
It's just 20 years too late. It's dated and not as good as contemporaries. Another straight-to-Netflix movie I am glad I did not pay good monies to watch at the cinema. Good cast. Shame about the plot and the script!
Jimenshitachi (2024)
A Lesson In Always Doing Your Due Delligence
Wow. Great show. Solid narrative. Superb pace. Smashing suspense. Really excellently-written with fabulous character-development.
Characters are very interesting and dynmaic and the chemistry works super-well. From incredibly awkward paid people placed in big stake operations to the big evil boss to crazy personalities in Tokyo's underbelly. Top stuff.
I really loved this show. I'm 5/7th of my way through and I watch a lot of Japanese cinema and I'm now curious to see what other shows Hitoshi Ône will make. He has talant. This is definitely what Netflix needs more of.
Original and gripping drama with fabulous characters. Please do more of this Netflix.
Friday (1995)
The OG Cult South Central Street Movie
I remember watching this film a long time ago and just saw it on Netflix and for old times' sake; I decided to watch it tonight.
It's got that hoodlum element of two hood rats; Craig and Smokey; trying to survive and evade being beaten-up by their nemises! They try-it-on with the neighbourhood hotties and deal with intimate family matters and street relations too!
It's aged pretty well considering it's now nearly 30 years' old! It's got beautiful chemistry between Ice Cube and Chris Tucker and that's what makes this movie really work!
It's got lots of slapstick and hood jokes. Two dudes just trying to survive their way into another weekend. Just. It's a really fun movie and it's perfect for a pot of something to go with your popcorn. The banter is great. It's just fun. RIP to the cast who have sadly passed away.
Mr. McMahon (2024)
Expose On Mr McMahon Amid A Huge Lawsuit
Ok it's a great show. It's hugely indepth on how the WWE started and the character development of the wrestlers and the show's founder. It's massive.
It's also been recorded JUST before the time Mr. McMahon received a lawsuit which unfortunately heralded his request to deny finishing the last interview segment for this show!
I'm really not sure if Mr. McMahon is guilty or not. It's far too hard to figure this one out as he was such larger-in-life and was so over-the-top with his chracter on screen that it's hard to know what is true and what is not!
It's from a period where TV was really out-of-control. I did not watch WWE whilst growing-up as I did not have the pay-per-view and I was in England. However many friends of mine are huge wrestling fans and advised me to watch this show!
The show itself is a really well-made and unique insight and extremely comprehensive into one of the most successful sports of all-time! Professional American wrestling!
It follows the life of Mr. McMahon who is still with us today. I am very impressed with the structure of the show and the questions asked. The interviewers did a great job. There's a lot of Louis Theroux top-level style journalism here and I loved the production of this show.
It was super cool seeing The Rock and Hulk Hogan discuss very intimate aspects of the show as well as Hitman Hart and various other og wrestling superstars!
I felt it was a really great show but it was also very emotional and difficult for people there who looked visibly hurt by the surrounding lawsuit which took place when filming was wrapping-up. It's very rare to get something like this done at the core of a lawsuit yet with so much access to the people involved. Really awesome job to the film-makers!
The House (2017)
Cheap Gags; Very Easy Script and Not Thrilling
Well this was just silly. A couple try and send their daughter to Uni/College but realise the funding has gone and therefore they need to raise copious funding through creating a 'casino' with a friend at their house.
I just don't know even know where to begin with the script. This film has a perspective from a drunk frat teenager's house party. It is pretty much the same level of humour and stunts and acting. Though the CGI and SFX in the movie are actually descent and save it from being even more mediocre than it actually is!
There is a lot of slapstick in this. The comedy is ok but it's just so repetitive and it gets very dull and it's so very cliche. The actors stick out and are trying far too hard to be cool.
It's just a rushed movie and something done for 'humour' but it's not real funny like 'Naked Gun' or 'Airplane' etc. It's just cheap and stupid. I don't get how they did not constantly get shut-off for not having a casino operating license or liquer license. Really dumb. You could not do this in real life. Or make the amount the apparently made with local residents paying.
Econimcally it doesn't add-up. Script-wise it doesn't add-up. It's just a really dumb and stupid film. Why was it released?
Capital (2015)
Drama But A Unique Twist
It's a nice TV drama series featuring some superb actors as Toby Jones; Adeel Akhtar; Danny Ashok and Wunmi Mosaku.
It highlights residents living in the London capital city on a high-value surbaban street where houses cost more than £2m. The value of the houses rise as the months of the characters' lives are portrayed.
Each character has signifant issues in the script during the series. It is also a melting pot of 'WE WANT WHAT YOU HAVE' being advertised at the characters in various messages either through thier door or on advertising elsewhere. No one knows where or why this message came (from).
It's a very interesting cynical look at the elite v us and how people's lives can change so much for the worse or the better. The most affluent member of the street is also not immune to having a life being rapidly-changed.
It shows you that you should not neccessarily be too greedy and want everything and there are problems when you reach the top as much as there are problems at the bottom.
The dialogue is great. The script and casting is superb. I regret that I did not see this on TV but it came out on Netflix and as I am a huge fan of Toby Jones so I had to watch it!
It's really a great drama and I don't want to ruin too much but if you enjoy how different people live on a street and character development and big drama with characters fighting and making-up and interwoven love-stories then this is the perfect show for you!
Really nicely done. 8/10!
The Inheritance (2023)
Inheritance Of A Mystery Of Uselessness
So the plot is odd. The 'loved' Dad who turns out to be a phony in a relationship with a new wife of 14 years which was SOMEHOW kept a secret from his THREE mature kids and SOMEHOW they never figured out that he was being spiked and had dementia signs? Let alone the bogus missing euros from their accounts?? How??
Really? Honestly? My Grandma had dementia and it's a serious illness and quite frankly you have to be really ignorant in order not to see it. I also don't understand how the 'ex' of one character turned around his atittude quickly in the last series...??!!!
The script-writing has many holes. Like the coroner not re-opening the case after the new relationship being discovered. Like the same standard drunken revenge desparate son and the one who was control over anyone who is married to his sister! So much for happy families. It's so degenerate it's just stupid and also the plot twists are so polar it makes it even worse and ruins whatever substance you thought was there in the opening minutes!
It's not a great show and it appears more slick than it actually is. It's very odd that the basic patterns were not understood and the police were this incompetent. An awful script with average acting and average screenplay.
Gangs of London (2020)
The Modern Krays - Gangland Violence Is Amplified!
Wow. I'm already over half a season in but I feel compelled to write a review! The acting is excellent! Audio is stunning. I love the production it's all very on-point.
Location wise is fab; a mixture of highend and local hoodlum hangouts and traveller parks etc. It's got a great script with LOADS of intense character-development!
Gareth Evans' signature choreography is one of the best in the business! Certainly the best from the uk. The fighting is just superb! Also the gunplay is exceptional. The tracking shots are absolutely next-level.
Stunning cinematography. Superb audio. I really love the depth and the global aspect of the gangs! It's great that actors are using real dialogue with real accents and real languages! This means a lot! It's just utterly awesome. We need more of this!
Hoshikuzu kyôdai no densetsu (1985)
New Wave Romantic Quirky Cult Manga Movie
A combination of themes going here! Lots of basis of London punk and new wave; which was common in 1985! Bands like Adam and The Ants and David Bowie are definitely inspirations in the movie.
The new wave songs are good and the live shows of the Brothers seem natural and not forced. There is a lot of punk energy about them and I like the cinematography style.
It's very arthouse. It's very advanced for the era and for a very young director to do this movie it is accomplished and with plenty of slapstick and style.
What it sadly misses is a better narrative and storyline. It's like a bunch of random themes put together from live shows to a car-chase to some sort of weird alien/zombie apocolypse script with a homage to other bizarre cult movies!
I really enoyed the film and it is a LOT of fun. Just the plot line is very thin. The brothers perform fabulously and the band is fun. Bands get huge recognition in Japan and for artists it's one of the best places in the world to tour. It's highlighted here with the two brothers performing to an energised and enthusiastic crowd.
Bands that don't always get noticed when they should but get amazing treatment in Japan (just watch the Anvil doc; ignorerd overseas but loved in Japan) and it's so nice to see the Japanese people truely adore pop culture. As a big music nerd this has been done very well but it also feels like one long pop video with an interesting end!
With a descent script this could have been so much better! However it is so funny and quirky and amusing that I still loved it! I got the first pressing on Third Windows which has a cd with it of the soundtrack! This is a very nice touch as a package! Thanks to Third Windows for allowing me to see these fun films which I otherwise would not have. It's hard to rate but I loved the entertainment value. 7/10.
Sabi otoko sabi onna (2011)
Quirky and The Unusual
A trilogy of directors and films assorted together on one catalogue reference. The big surprise here is the follow-up movie from the Director of Survival Style 5+; Gen Sekiguchi and this SOMEHOW being his only follow-up movie since!
He's started making advertisements and this is really sad as I adored Survival Style 5+ but it just bombed in the box-office!
I'm ever so grateful for the team at Third Window Films for allowing me this unique opportunity to see these movies together! How Gen Sekiguchi is not asked to do more movies is really sad for me as he is indeed a special talent in my eyes!
I adored that there was two male and two female directors shown. I loved the short pieces and the quirkyness of the movies. Sure it was not ground-breaking but it was fun and very original and entertaining with morality values and other aspects.
The love stories between characters were incredibly sweet and I loved the character development in all of the segments. It is hard to rate these movies and they were very low-budget titles. I will give a strong 7/10.
Fighting with My Family (2019)
Taking On The TV Series and Pushing It To The Big Screen!
Well I thought this was a generally excellent films except for some lazyness in research like Ricky clearly wearing an Arsenal shirt in the TV series and the Nick Frost character wearing a Norwich shirt in the movie! I mean come on!
The show was a really enjoyable featurette on Channel 4 and this movie takes the nuggets from the show and showcases how Paige became a professional wrestler.
Acting is really top. Stephan Merchant is a great writer so the comedy and the gags are absolutely spot-on. The casting is fabulous. Really nice screenplay.
There is plenty of drama and special appearances by movie legend 'The Rock' or Dwayne Johnson. Dwanye just comes across as your missing brother in this movie and deserves a lot of credit for being involved to support the industry and the diversity it so badly needs!
It's a really fun and enjoyable popcorn movie and I'm really glad to have finally watched it on Netlfix. 8/10. Amazing soundtrack too! Oh they really got the dressing room environment spot on! I watch a lot of band stuff on You Tube where they have dressing room locations. This is very accurate.
Trolls (2016)
Predictable Fairytale Drama With Glitter And Morality
It's pretty much a standard predictable and tired fairytale drama. It's got some great voice actors such as Jeffrey Tambor and John Cleese but Russell Brand and James Corden..please...
Don't really understand what was going on in the casting pool for that. It's more of a musical animation set as well as a drama. The music is hit-or-miss. Some good old funk tunes but also a lot of crap. Could do with KC and The Sunhine Band.
The script is ok but it's just easy repetitive gags and storylines. I'm not the demographic for this movie but I wanted something entertaining and light and it did the job it just did not wow me like Toy Story and Inside Out and Wall E did.
A good effort but it falls short. The morality bottom-line is a good education for kids though.
Insutanto numa (2009)
Charming; Hilarious and An Adventure Of Realisation!
This is an excellent movie! It's extremely quirky with LOADS of slapstick gags and Chaplin-style gags. It's witty. It's quirky. It's got great character-development and an excellent narrative.
It's a down-and-out girl who is not happy in her job and she loses her job. She finds her lost relative and discovers that they have a strong connection and a similar gift. Then she decides to follow his career path and becomes enlightened by him and his idocentricies.
It's a very romantic movie. Whilst this is happening with her rediscovering her lost relative her mum is in a coma and needs awakening. There is a special secret to her awakening and it all comes togeter in such a beautiful way.
Also a special shout out to the Director for making Gus; the punk-rocker; a social responsible guy! Many of us punk-rockers are not deemed well in society and this is just great to see!
It's weird it's wonderful it's quirky it's funny it's fun and it's even palpable at times too! Just awesome cinema! It hits your emotions and makes you connect to the characters. It's a low-budget movie with some nice CGI and it's not OTT. I love the structure of the film and the cinematography and sets are excellent. It is long at two hours though!
My copy is from the Satoshi Miki box-set on Third Window Films.
8/10. Excellent movie!
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
Great Until The End
The show started off so so well but then it tailed into some weird ending with a dumb narrative. I don't understand how it went from an EPIC start to such a disaster downfall.
Sure I get the connection of the ending (not giving spoilers) but it's just absurd with so much happening before it and it feeling that it just did not sync at all with previous seasons. It really left me bitter about the potential it had early on.
The first season is absolutely incredible. It just never carried-on with that flow. I don't understand what went wrong with the writing and the script. The direction and carmea work and everything else is top-tier though.
Daehakno-yeseo maechoon-hadaka tomaksalhae danghan yeogosaeng ajik Daehakno-ye Issda (2000)
Arthouse Degenerate Movie
I watched this from my copy from Third Window Films in the UK on DVD. I love Thrid Windows Films as they specialise in the quirky and the weird and wonderful movies from South East Asia.
This certainly encapsulates quirky and weird. It's about a girl who got re-programmed by her professor and is no longer an actual human girl but a robot complete wtih robotic tit functionality to please her clients.
She is a prostitiute who becomes a killing-machine who kills bad guys and people after her. It's got no real context. It's very simple. It's very easy and it is fun but it is not a great quality movie. It is SUPER low-budget and SUPER low-fi. It's got some nice sequences on camera stuff and some fun parts but it's not the best movie and it will never claim to be. It's just a mad movie of cinema and it's fun but that's about it. 5/10.
Kangchul (2000)
A Robot/Humanoid's Soilder's Destiny
A robot/humanoid hybrid person/bot discusses his life as a soilder and how his own children are facing the future. He is a mechanoid with human elements but unsure of what human elements remain or if he is fully-mechanoid.
It's an take on the future and what could happen in a Sci-fi world when the machines and guns and at war. It is a homage to Robocop and Mad Max and warped sci-fi. His worries about his kids and their future and life in general being just over.
It's not likely to happen but it an interesting take from the year 2000 from the South Korean Director Nam Ki Woong. It is a primite movie on low budget. It is a bonus 'featurette' from 'Teenage Hooker Became A Killing Machine' on the DVD package from Third Windows Films in the UK. 30 minutes' long including the credits.
Yardie (2018)
Bedlum Badman Style
It's a Jamaican story and it's a moving and captivating film about drug life and resettling and doing deals and the viscious homicide of the peacemaker; Jerry Dread.
The storyline is good. It's got a lot of usual dealer stuff but the soundsystem clashes are absolutely spot-on! It rememds me of what the DNB stations do! The authenticacy with the big speakers is absolutely spot on!
I loved the gear and the aesthetics and the cars. Stephen Graham's accent is just awesome! The lead characters are solid. It's well-done and I don't get the low rates.
We could really do with a movie about the Windrush generation but this is just a start! SG actually has Jamaican heritage and a buddy of mine is mixed-race with a Jamaican father so I see the simularities here a lot!
Really nicely done. It's definitely for fans of Top Boy!
His Three Daughters (2023)
The Unique Bond Of Sisterhood and A Dying Father
This is a deeply romantic and sad movie cataloguing the final days of three siblings and their dying father and trying to coordinate his obituary and legal processes before his death.
It's very beautiful and incredbly moving. Gorgeous room tracking shots. Lots of exceptional character-development. Very minimal characters. The main three protagonists are the sisters and each one has wonderful individual expresssionism and they are portrayed superbly. Acted superbly by Carrie Coon; Elizabeth Olson and including one of my favourites; Natasha Lyonne! WHAT A CASTING!
I like the score and the art direction setup of the flat. It's a great film to understand how we move on and for people to grow closeer to. This should be required viewing for anyone dealing with death and struggling with the sibling relationship process.
Astounding. 9/10.
Sillaui dalbam (2001)
Korean Comedy Action Flick
I loved Attack The Gas Station and I finally got around to watching this and I love this too! It's got a huge amount of epic character-development. The script is well-written and it is long but it sure packs a lot of action!
There is a lot of choreography and some of it is very funny and the acting is generally superb. I love the dialogue and how angry characters get from their squables and how other characters wind others up on purpose or for revenge!
It's got a lot of banter and a lot of passion and a lof comedy and a lot of fun! It's a really enjoyable popcorn movie and it's tough to do these long action films and the stunt team did a really excellent job. I don't know the budget but around this time lots of new cinema was coming out like J-horror and such like! Well this is k-comedy and action!
I really enjoyed it and I really reccommend in sitting-back and just letting it embrace you. It's a yakuza movie; a comedy movie and an educational movie all rolled together! I loved it. On the awesome Third Window Films.
Pido nunmuldo eobshi (2002)
Stunning Choreography And Intense Heat Pressure Points
It's got a lot of hot and heavy action. Cops versus criminals. Criminals versus criminals. Two women trying to escape everyone. Dodgy deals. Backstabbing. Violence. Dogfights. Underworld gambling. Money-making schemes. Power and greed. Oh and the union of disabled gangsters. WHO I LOVED!
There is a pivatol moment where the lead protagonist; a female cab driver's taxi; is hit by the mobster's girlfriend in his car and they crash at an intersection! They start arguing and the girlfriend wants to pay back and she gets the cab driver's contact details.
From there they end-up hanging out and becoming 'associates'. Except it gets really messy as the girlfriend is betrayed by another gangster and it all explodes on action in huge fights!
It's really well-made and the choreography is exceptional. The stunt team did a staggeringly-good job and the hotel escape is one really technically-proficient piece done superbly! Editing is also accompished and efficient.
The car chases are a bit ott but the style is sequenced well. The banter between characters is fabulous. It's very dark humoured. There's lots of chraacter-development.
Script-wise it is not a unique movie but it is executed very well and the professionalism of the team to keep it entertaining and fun for nearly 2 hours deserves praise.
It's a really fun movie with some excellent hard-hitting performances. Out on the amazing Third Window Films. Their very first release in the UK on digital video disc. Thank you!
Waildeu kadeu (2003)
South Korean Cop Drama Pulls Punches
It's got a love-story. A lot of fighting. Ruthless thugs going around killing randoms for money. Violence. Desperation. Low-life scum.
The cops are hard-working on the trail of the gang but the problem is they get to a prostitution den and find under-age girls working; BUT they don't do anything about it other than a shake-down and trying to find out where their 'boys' are.
This is the biggest flaw of the movie. In other movies they would have all been arrested for this. I don't understand why this did not take place in this movie and their operational license being revoked. I am so confused.
Otherwise this is a solid but standard cop action flick taking inspiration from films of this era and the Hong Kong films of the 1990's.
There's some good sequences of violence and chases. The score is actually descent. The acting carries this movie a bit better than the script and the tension between characters and character development is very solid.
It's just a bit lazy with some aspects of the script. It's from over two decades' ago now and a lot has changed with technology and CCTV. South Korean film improved massively in a short space in 2000's.
However the actors were very notable and strong and I enjoyed it. It's a fun popcorn movie to relax to. 7/10. A Third Window Films' DVD.
Sae-yi yaeseu (2001)
Well-Paced; Stylish Slick Serial Slasher Movie
It's from just before the big boom of South Korean horror and along the same time period as the Ring francise. It's part Psycho; The Shining and other US movies rolled-into-one. However it is very well-produced and well-made.
I really don't understand the low rates. Do people just troll Asian movies with bad ratings because they are gory or something? I don't get it.
The acting is solid. It's not over-acting. It's polished. The direction is great. Lots of good dangerous stunt sequences which have been done well. There is a lovely documentary of the making-of in my Third Window Films' DVD release.
It's odd that this film did not get more overseas' acclaim as it is a perfect late-night-popcorn-slasher-and-romance-kinda-film. Especially appropriate that the most beautiful love story between Yoon-hee and Jung-hyun. In today's term of short-term romance and impossible dating apps this is a breath-of-fresh-air!
Special shout out for the leading three protagonists. Yoon-hee; Jung-hyun and Park Joong-hoon played their parts superbly. Park is a great Director and actor. His tanacity and aggression reminded me of Kitano in his yakuza movies!
Really underrated movie. Please watch it! 8/10.