Category: reviews

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Galileo XX: Utsumi Kaoru’s Last Case

Raise your hand if you missed Kou Shibasaki on this year’s Galileo series? It certainly doesn’t seem like I was the only person to do so, because according to rumors- Fuji TV got fan letters requesting Shibasaki be back… so they did.

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Bunty Aur Babli

Bunty Aur Babli is a light-hearted take on the classic crime caper genre, lead by an all-star cast and boasting hit songs.

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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…

Well, Indian stories live up to the titles of their films, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…, which apparently translates to ‘sometimes happiness, sometimes sad’ really contains moments of pure elation followed by moments to crush your heart.

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Canyons, The (2013)

The Canyons is a film that suffers from two immensely conflicting views: the sleek and sexy post-American Gigolo world of Schrader and the aggravatingly nihilistic and shallow world of Ellis.

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Pushing Daisies

Part fairytale romance, part quirky crime mystery solving, part snarky comedy food-loving musical and more; Pushing Daisies achieved a stroke of genius uniqueness that is hardly ever going to show up on television again.

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TVXQ! – “O”-Jung.Ban.Hap

DBSK’s third Korean album attempts to show us different sides of the young group. But does it succeed or simply begin to settle the group into a distinct pattern?

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Now You See Me

By explaining everything and leaving nothing to the imagination, Now You See Me falls into dreadful and ridiculous predictability.

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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

This overly-long melodramatic rom-com is the best fluff I’ve watched in a very long time, as we follow a man looking to reconnect with his ex-best-friend.

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Pedro Suarez Vertiz – Yo, Pedro

Yo, Pedro pretty much deals with past stories from his life, including family, his musical career and many of his thoughts on diverse topics as well as addressing one of his latest issues: his motor neuron disease, the one thing that has kept him away from the spotlight.

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Post Tenebras Lux

Post Tenebras Lux is a semi-autobiographical film by Carlos Reygadas that was made purposely to baffle us, being presented as a sort of a bizarre dream.