March 31, 2018 Leave your thoughts“All special effects must serve the story”, says Spielberg, and goes on to worship the story’s king: character. They are such a big part of storytelling, each one of them here is doubled with an avatar. Avatars help them break free of reality’s shackles and become true to their dreams. (more…)
A supercut of endings of films about atrocities.
December 18, 2017 Leave your thoughtsConsumerists dream of bio-mechanical enhancements, while free spirits are commodified by the corporate machine.
Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile (2006) 
Johnnie To's Drug War (2012) 
Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War (2011) 
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's “Doppelgänger” (2003) 
Kim Ki-duk's “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring” (2003) 
Kim Jee-woon's “I Saw the Devil” (2010) 
Lee Chang-dong's “Oasis” (2002) 
Takashi Miike's “One Missed Call” (2003) 
Kim Jee-woon's “The Quiet Family” (1998) 
Kim Jee-woon's “A Tale of Two Sisters” (2003) 
Lee Chang-dong's “Poetry” (2010) 
Satoshi Kon's “Tokyo Godfathers” (2003) 
Hou Hsiao Hsien's “Millennium Mambo” (2001)
November 9, 2017 Leave your thoughtsMainstream media promotes the idea that women are more virtuous than men and inflates the bubble of moral superiority. No-nonsense masculine filmmaker Walter Hill won’t be fooled and returns to set the record straight with a bloody, politically incorrect pulp parable.