Recent content by Szlia

Hah! Saw that in a film festival last summer (The Neuchatel International Fantasy Film Festival where I also saw The Thing With Feathers, Touch Me, Reflet dans un Diamant Mort, Obex, Exit 8... maybe kroenen is part of the selection committee there?). It's ok. It feels like South Korea has been...

Just saw Hamnet. Having seen 8 out of the 10 nominees (I doubt I'll ever watch F1 and Frankenstein), my Top 3 is 1) Hamnet 2) The Secret Agent 3) Sentimental Value. Hamnet is not without problems, but you get a very solid film and, in an ending that is already very strong and moving, there is...

This movie has a very dated feel in its lack of subtlety. That's for the worst (the way the main character and the executives are depicted) but also the better (it dares some pretty extreme and crazy sequences and the plot is also over the top). Still enjoyed it overall, but I am the president...

Is it entertaining though? The actions scenes are brief, few, far between and not that great, and the plot is barely serviceable. It's watchable, but it's not much.

As I mentioned above, the hairy leg articles were real. Because of the censorship that happens in a dictatorship, journalists could not cover police brutality. So to go around the censorship, they invented an absurd boogeyman, the hairy leg. Readers understood what it meant. Here is a Gemini cut...

Never read the books, but I must say I did not enjoy this movie nearly as much as The Martian. My two main issues are the facts the problem that has to be solved is a lot more abstract and sciencefictiony compared to The Martian, and that here we have a Disney sidekick for half the movie. Really...

Saw it a few weeks back. Not a masterpiece, it feels the scenario leaves some juice in the lemon in the 3rd act, but still, I very much enjoyed seeing a well crafted non-comedic American cop and robber movie in theater. It's a type of movie that basically almost disappeared in the US with the...

I did not notice there was a post for this. It actually released in a arthouse theater near me a few months back. I have seen two of the previous three films by that director. I don't remember what Kaili Blues was about, but it's is mostly deambulations filmed in very long takes first in...

Just watched the 2nd season. It's a bit clumsy at times, but it pulls a very rare type of ending. It's a relatively short affair (six 1 hour episodes), so I would say it's worth it.

I don't think it's worth creating a new thread about it, but for reference here is the Top 20 of 2025 as voted by 5 friends of mine and myself. Note that it's based on the release schedule in Switzerland, so some films have been in last year's Academy Awards (like the winner) and some films that...

Now I did! The review posted above is probably by someone who did not see the film. You have a frame story, which is a film director at a table facing the camera that has a tablet on which he runs an AI. The idea is that he made a movie about Dracula that did not screen test well, so he is...

Saw this at a film festival. It's a weird kind of queer erotic horror sci-fi thriller comedy or something. It's pretty light on the erotic part though. Can't be blamed to lack originality and the cast is good, which is not a given with this type of very indie features. Is it a masterpiece? No...

It's good but I could not shake the Temu Malick feeling. The adaptation is also odd. It adapts a 100 pages novella and removes key elements in it that seemingly changes the story for one more abstract and meditative.

I was like "WTF! Yuen Woo-Ping???" and yeah, the guy is 80. Nicolas Tse, Tony Leung Ka-Fai (I would have preferred Chiu-Wai but still) and Jet Li! That's some old school cast also.

Unrelated to the marvelous UK comedy of 2011 also called The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in auto-fictional versions of themselves doing a gastronomy tour while bantering.