Note: This is a capsule version of my previously published review A horror film critic accidentally finds himself at a support group for serial killers in Vicious Fun. Joel (Evan Marsh) is a young horror film critic in 1983 Minnesota, who writes for a magazine called “Vicious Fanatics,” while secretly harbouring a crush for his roommate […]
Vicious Fun – Blood in the Snow 2021
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A mixed-race teenager begins a secret relationship with the popular boy at her school, following her parents’ divorce in InBetween Girl. Angie Chen (Emma Galbraith) is a teenage girl in Galveston, Texas, born to Chinese father Fai (KaiChow Lau) and white American mother Veronica (Liz Waters). In the aftermath of her parents’ sudden divorce, Angie
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A coldhearted rancher has an antagonistic relationship with his brother’s new wife and her son in The Power of the Dog. Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a cowboy in 1925 Montana, who owns a ranch with his brother George (Jesse Plemons). While on the range, the brothers stop for dinner at an establishment run by
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Three Korean sisters in different social-economic situations come together for their father’s birthday in Three Sisters. Jeon Miyeon (Moon So-ri) is a woman with a seemingly perfect life as a happily married choirmaster. On the other hand, Miyeon’s younger sister Mi-Ok (Yoon-ju Jang) is a barely functioning alcoholic and their older sister Hee-sook (Kim Sun-young)
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A middle-aged Filipino man fears for the future after the death of his mother in Islands. Joshua (Joshua) is a Filipino-born man on the cusp of 50, who still lives at home with his parents Alma (Vangie Alcasid) and Reynaldo (Esteban Comilang), who believe that the incredibly shy Joshua will never follow in the footsteps
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Lin-Manuel Miranda directs this film adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson with tick, tick…BOOM! Jonathan Larson (Andrew Garfield) is a struggling musical theatre writer on the cusp on his 30th birthday, who has been developing the dystopian sci-fi rock musical Superbia for the past eight years. Jon has finally been given the chance
The beginning of The Troubles in Northern Ireland is shown from the point of view of a young child living with his middle-class Protestant family in Belfast. Nine-year-old Buddy (Jude Hill) lives in a working-class neighbourhood in North Belfast with his Ma (Caitriona Balfe), older brother Will (Lewis McAskie), and grandparents Granny (Judi Dench) and
A Japanese man living in Norway decides to seek out his Japanese mother in Codename: Nagasaki. Marius Lunde is a Japanese-born man, who moved to Norway as a kid and makes films together with his friend Fredrik S. Hana. Marius decides to go back and Japan and search for his birth mother, whom he hasn’t
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A cafe owner discovers he has the ability to communicate with himself two minutes into the future in Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. Kato (Kazunori Tosa) is the owner of a cafe, who arrives home at his upstairs apartment to discover a version of himself communicating from the cafe’s computer monitor two minutes into the
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes – Reel Asian 2021
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A man in a post-apocalyptic world builds a robot companion in Finch. Finch Weinberg (Tom Hanks) is one of the few survivors of a solar flare, which destroyed the ozone layer, resulted in uninhabitable levels of ultraviolet radiation. Finch spends his days scavenging the ruins of St. Louis while coming home at night to take
