As I Lay Dying (2013)
The premise of a film about how a family deals with the death of a beloved member is interesting and obviously grim, but James Franco’s take on the story is quite a mixed bag.
Category: film reviews
Maps to the Stars (2014)
Oh, the illusion of Hollywood~ or better yet, its dirtiest secrets are the based of Cronenberg’s latest.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
The latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film adaptation should have been retitled as “April O’Neil” because she’s the one that gets the most amount of screentime and focus as well as being highly important to the Turtles’ origins.
Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary
If you’re new to the Saint Seiya series, you’re better off ignoring this one. For older fans, however, Legend of Sanctuary will be either hit or miss.
Noah (2014)
The most notable changes Aronofsky does with Noah is presenting the main character with extremist traits, providing the story a villain and giving a voice to women, which isn’t something you would notice on the Bible.
Hundred-Foot Journey, The
An Indian family from Mumbai flee their country and settle in a rather remote, but quaint, ville in the south of France where they open an Indian restaurant in front of a one-Michelin-star place.
Nora Noh (Documentary)
During the Japanese occupation of Korea, Nora Noh was married off early to escape the horrible fate of comfort women across East Asia, though she later divorced and ended up studying fashion design in the US. The rest is, of course, a not-so-well-known story.
Aachi & Ssipak
The global economy has broken down, the cities collapsed and our common energy sources have dramatically been reduce to the point that we’ve turned our attention to human feces as a source… poop as an economic tool.
