Tagged: mood: drained
Trishna (2011)
Winterbottom’s adaptation of Hardy’s novel provides an interesting character study for Pinto, who does an amazing job even when the script lets her down.
Simple Life, A (2011)
A Simple Life is a simple story about a man named Roger and the anything-but-simple relationship with the woman who has worked for his family for 60 years of her life, Tao Jie.
Charlie Cochet – The Auspicious Troubles of Chance
Charlie Cochet’s debut The Auspicious Troubles of Chance teaches the reader something about the unshakable grandeur of true love.
Tsumi to Batsu: A Falsified Romance
Miroku Tachi is a socially awkward young man who’s facing the harsh reality — people aren’t good by nature. When he meets the cold Hikaru Baba, a high school girl who’s a prostitution ring leader that enjoys making weak people suffer, Miroku takes on the task of eliminating the vermin of the world.
Grey, The (2012)
Liam Neeson and Joe Carnahan work together once again in The Grey, a survival thriller based on Ian MacKenzie Jeffers’s short story, Ghost Walker.
Hunger Games, The
The Hunger Games is a good film thanks to the cast, but it also presents some problems that are inevitable to notice.
Natsuo Kirino – Grotesque
Grotesque is billed as a murder mystery, but it’s less of a whodunit than a probing inquiry into the ills of society.
Chang-rae Lee – Aloft
Chang-rae Lee’s prose is so lyrical, he could build grocery shopping up as the epicenter of a crisis in singularity, transform clipping toenails into an existential quandary, and make sorting the recycling a prophecy of something tragic in the Greek sense of the word.