Debut feature film by Kwon Oh-seung who also wrote it. In a thriller of cat and mouse that pits a serial killer against a deaf mother and daughter, with an ex-cop trying to save his sister. I tend to give a bit more leniency to first features because it's really a director experimenting with the form. Less of plot maybe, but more interesting from a film making perspective.
The plot itself has a number of conveniences that exist to make…
Yeah, I see now why this was so polarizing.
I've been a fan of Alex Garland a pretty long time, either when he writes, directs, or does both. I don't think he's amazing, but he floats certain provocative themes in his films and at least makes them interesting to watch. After seeing Jessie Buckley in both ITOET and Chernobyl, also been a fan of hers. I'm not too familiar with Rory Kinnear, but this is the film where I think…
Tough watch. There was lots of footage circulating online last year of the police brutality against both protestors and other citizens. What this short documentary didn't show is how the collective ingenuity of the Hong Kong people helped them to defend themselves and fight back in some way. Although the end is still chaos, there's a glimmer of hope that things would change for the better.
In 1965 Frank Herbert wrote Dune, one of the most influential science fiction epics. Since then it has been attempted to be adapted into a film twice; first by Alejandro Jodorowsky in the 1970s who was unsuccessful in doing so, and then finally by David Lynch in 1984, which wasn't well received and deemed a flop. It was concluded that Dune was also impossible to adapt due to the nature of the story, in which a large chunk involved inner…
