The Lighthouse, presented as a black and white vignette of several malcontent filled scenes between the harrowed old endemic lighthouse keeper and a young steward new to the location. The film has a jarbled, often scathing tone about its dialogue, a welcome grating narration to the usual seamless fabric necessitated through the industry. The characters …
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The Lobster is the greatest romantic comedy I have ever seen. Now it’s not a romantic comedy in the same sense that Mama Mia or Crazy Rich Asians would be, with a lighthearted tune about finding love in a hopeless place, showered in sprays of springtime flowers and a dash of the coastal breeze. …
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Hae-Mi is a brilliant representation of the oft-forgotten femme fatale. In Burning, she finds herself in the middle of a love triangle in her search for stability, looking to her past in Jong-Su and aspirational needs with Ben, but neither could fulfill her true, inner desire, a sense of self. There is a single …
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Harold and Kumar is the most important movie for Asian-Americans in the history of American pop culture. Miss me with movies like “Memoirs of a Geisha” where everything’s depressing and the characters were Asian because shit it was set in Asia, what else were they going to be. But Harold and fucking Kumar set the …
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