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🎶 still walking, on and on
but I only sway like a little boat...

"Not having someone to hate makes it all the worse for me. So once a year, I make him feel awful too. Will the gods punish me for that?"

Avoiding confrontations, complaining but never addressing issues directly, veiling ive-aggression in customary politeness, making promises you know you'll never keep. All of it feels too real. As if you're not watching a film but peering through a window into someone’s family. People in this family don't magically change, their conflicts remain unresolved. There's no tidy happy ending. But strangely enough, when the credits roll, the film leaves you with an unexpected sense of fulfillment (guess that's kore-eda for you!)

i genuinely thought this was gonna be one of those anime I'd drop by fifth episode, but i ended up inhaling whole of season one like maomao inhales sh*t that should k!ll her.

the storyline is so good and maomao makes for such an iconic mc. it almost felt like watching a historical cdrama except, its actually interesting lol. also, its kinda insane the kind of chemistry maomao and jinshi have, the animators definitely did an amazing job here.

p.s. - i would literally k!ll for jinshi btw

Why would you cling onto a world that only makes you suffer?

All things eventually come to an end. Whenever I think that, all my fear disappears.

sigh. its always these 40 min anime films that play with your emotions.

so short yet so beautiful. made me sad but also made me want to live.

bit of an insane chemistry between amitabh and rajesh khanna in here

[CLASS 2]

The last few minutes saved my mental health from plummeting down to pre-friend-group shieun level, i think.

Its not very often that a show's second season manages to be almost as perfect as the first. I wasn't really feeling it initially (lack of suho et al), but suddenly ryeoun pops up by the end of ep 2 and the next thing i knew, I'd warmed up to these new characters already. Obsessed with how significant suho is to the narrative without actually being there :')

p. s. - somebody get park jihoon (and those eyes of his) an oscar!!

may kim soo-hyun never find employment again (except in jail maybe) 🤲

this was so unserious yet so fun. very anime live action vibe! minhyun is such a good actor tbh he deserves many more lead roles. also, can they stop giving evil roles to cha woo-min? I'm tired of my moral com malfunctioning smh

THEY ATE DOWN WITH THE OSTs BTW! 🗣️🔥

the first half was a bit too slow to sit through, and the film could have used a little more elaboration on, well, everything. however, I’m a sucker for moody, atmospheric, pretty-looking folk horrors, so here goes a biased 3/5

'I do trust you.'
'End of conversation.'

yu aoi, the range you have...

this was somewhat bland and dramatic, but that's part of the charm. despite maintaining an almost false sense of calm throughout, the film felt quietly unsettling at times. as someone not familiar with kiyoshi kurosawa's other works, i can only assume that its his brand as a horror filmmaker seeping through.
i honestly did not expect to like the film as much as i did, but i ended up surprising myself in the end.

edit: i was going crazy over why the husband's actor seems so familiar, turns out he is the VA of Seiji from Whisper of the Heart!! (who happens to be my fav ghibli guy)

just saw the trailer so excited aaaaahhhh~~~~🗣️🗣️🗣️

everytime they introduced a new dish i got progressively hungrier to the point that i had to get up and whip up some very authentic Indonesian cuisine myself
(indomie special chicken)

Watched on Tuesday December 10, 2024.

minus one star for the fl with the saintly savior complex, 1/2 for the general lack of critical thinking, and 1/2 for making the bully hot

I simply adore shows with strong religious themes that put emphasis on the weaponisation of religion and effectively manage to criticize what needs to be criticized without an ounce of disrespect or tasteless humor.

Having seen both Hill House and Bly Manor, I'd reached the conclusion that Mike Flanagan is no doubt amazing at what he does, but he just isn't my cup of tea. The only reason I went into this was because I'm a sucker for shows involving cultish tight-knit communities and I heard that there are no 'ghosts' involved in this one. I finished watching this the day before yesterday and its only now that i can collect my thoughts a bit.

I wasn't really feeling the show in the initial episodes as it seemed to be heading towards that preachy flanagan style direction, but I'm glad I kept watching cuz it only got better and better with the last two episodes being freaking amazing. As a non-Catholic, I really found the mass scenes so fascinating as I hadn't expected it to be all so ritualistic (also loved the aesthetics!). I would like to send flowers to the makers for first, creating the most evil character known to mankind (i loathe you bev keane); and second, for the closest thing to an accurate Muslim representation I've ever seen on screen.

The ending was honestly so so beautiful with all those people reaching acceptance staying close to their loved ones, Erin thinking back on her conversation with Riley, Bev being fcking miserable, and Hassan and Ali praying Fajr on the beach with Ali leading as the Imam (which is really significant as we spent the whole show with him struggling with his faith wanting to fit in and at the end he finally affirms it).

[i wanna add another star for rahul kohli's existence and hamish linklater's baller performance but that would kinda tip the whole scale of my already very logical rating system.]

first of all,

WANG YIBO YOU'RE SO EFFIN COOL!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

I'm honestly so impressed by yibo like i already knew he is a great actor but to match thee tony leung?? insane business. Petition to have him play more supposedly evil roles (involving vintage suits, mirrors, smoking while covered in blood, and beating up people)!!

So glad that this is the movie to bring me out of the 'cinema slump' I've been in. For a C propaganda film, its very well made cuz i honestly did not see any unnecessary glorification of the "communists". Even the portrayal of the imperial army was pretty mild in my opinion. The guangzhou scene in the beginning was quite harrowing tho, especially as it parallels the imagery we have been seeing come out of gaza day after day for a year now.

Although, the back-and-forth of the narrative sequence and the random jumps had me utterly confused for about half of the film, it was still a pretty engrossing watch and everything came together at the end. The fight sequences were so well done that they had me stressed. And I'm not even going to talk about the art of tony leung smoking and idk just existing cuz that would require another paragraph.

took me like five sittings to finish this.
there were too many similar looking similar sounding white people to keep track of, but the vibes were there so it wasn't exactly boring. and i was so delighted to see Mr. excellent boiled potatoes and charles dance!
expected more of the 'mystery' tho.

didn't even realise that it was literally dumbledore playing the creepy old dude until i saw the comments!

alia bhatt is my fav nepo baby to see onscreen CONFIRMED

was kinda skeptical over 'dark comedy' and 'domestic violence' being in the same sentence, but this was done amazingly well. vijay varma should be in every film, i think.

also, it was my first time feeling so scandalized by a kiss scene in a film lol like i didn't expect that AT ALL. good for them tho!

...that must be the uvula.
ohh. so its a girl house. 🧐🤔
what?🤨 noo. 😕🙄 it stimulates the gag reflex. 🙄everyone has an uvula! 😒
not me~ 😶😪

i used to watch this movie religiously every single time it was on as a kid, but I'm only getting to appreciate how freakin hilarious it is now lol. they need to bring this genre of unhinged animated films back.

the kind of trauma this movie would have inflicted on me as a kid...

binged this last weekend but I've been too busy trying to keep this 2 week something kitten that has somehow become my responsibility, alive (he turned 3 weeks old yesterday, i think) that i forgot to log lol

now, about the drama.
idk why but for some reason i expected some ocn level stuff. i mean no insult to the show when i say this, but the thriller aspect didn't quite work for me. maybe its because the culprit is revealed in the first episode itself? or maybe its the pacing? or strange character decisions which just makes one too frustrated to focus on anything else? or the confusing timelines? or maybe its that annoying quote being said thrice every episode. whatever the reason, it had me wishing this was shorter.

that said, I'd still give it three and half stars for its uniqueness, go min-si's amazing performance, gorgeous cinematography, and some truly beautiful cars!

edit: roh yoon-seo shines so much even in such a small role, she should be playing main lead already!
also, is chanyeol aging backwards?

wanted to like this so bad, but it just wasn't for me. the concept is super interesting, and Mamoru Hosoda is a genius for it, but it felt like there were too many things happening at the same time. this should have made the film fast-paced, but somehow, all that made it seem even longer. despite all their 'eccentricities', the characters seemed boring and pretty one-dimensional. kenji just comes out as a dork and, natsuki feels like an annoying side character for most of the film. also, there is this slight unclecon problem...

oh and i went through half of the film thinking kazuma was a tomboyish girl ✋

tried to watch the sequel, but it seemed terrible enough to ruin both my mood and the actual storyline, so i just rewatched this instead.

and i can't seem to find that book anywhere. rangga wasn't kidding when he called it rare i guess.

all rangga did was serve face, have that anime deuteragonist rizz, and speak facts!

on a more serious note, nicholas saputra has to be one of the most beautiful men to ever exist ✋

this film has everything i expect from a 2000s asian high school romance/coming of age and more. the y2k vibes are immaculate, and the friend group kinda reminded me of sunny! i love how this wasn't boring or cringe, despite being a little tropey.

bonus: nicholas saputra throws a pencil at an annoying couple in the library while frowning(cutely)

we're walking in the airrr~ we're floating in the mooonlit skyyy~

what a perfect little film. ♥️
love how the art style looks like a color pencil drawing done by an eight year old.

that ending would have made little me sad for an entire week. hate when they do that in a kids' movie.

welcome back young daemon targaryen!

that screenplay didn't deserve park chan-wook, but the man still cooked with what he had.

[the piano scene had me FLABBERGASTED ☠️]

matthew macfadyen has such a perfect case of 🥺face syndrome, its a terrible loss that he doesn't have at least thirteen romcoms to his name.

messy in like 134 ways but still an enjoyable (and traumatizing) watch.

people talking about the bathtub and the grave scene but gurl,, the bench scene??!? I COULD LITERALLY SEE CLOTS UGHH

if there's any award for playing the weirdest fcking weirdo on the screen, give it to barry keoghan. and gonna need someone to make a compilation of all the jacob elordi montages for me cuz I'm not watching this shit again.

oh the sheer potential of this film. —the way it could have been perfect if it had better pacing and better dialogues, and the characters could stick to one way of speaking and didn't randomly kept switching to some downright modern dialect.

i couldn't really get into the film for the first forty minutes or so. sonakshi's character was barely tolerable for those forty minutes, but thankfully, she's amazing for the rest of the film. watching ranveer was such a surprise like who knew he could act?!? and do so without being annoying?!? and maybe its the character, but i dare say, look hot in a film?!? (deepika, i finally get you)

anyways, the ending made me miserable but it was done beautifully so its okay i guess.

Watched on Sunday August 25, 2024.

this was a pretty fun watch and i was glad for the short runtime, but i still don't know what the 'secret' was supposed to be. the story felt kinda incomplete and the characters, underdeveloped. however, the art style was really cool and that somewhat made up for the lacking plot. hand-drawn animation will always stay superior✨

and, i didn't even realise that uncle cellach's VA was mad-eye moody!

(DIRECTOR'S CUT)

this was way more unhinged than i expected lol.
however, i was promised folk-horror. this was more like folk-fcking-weird.

maybe its just me, but i found the horror element not impactful at all. yes, it is very disturbing and did had me feeling uneasy, but the shock value got old pretty fast. the first ceremony with the elders shocked me to the core. after that, it was like 'yeah these people are completely insane' and thus i was ready for anything (also, there were plenty of hints for the future events already). so, nothing quite managed to make the impact that it was supposed to. moreover, i couldn't really bring myself to care for any of the characters.

still, I'm rounding this off to four stars because i found the premise interesting enough to warrant a rewatch. the viewing experience was really enjoyable as well despite all the unsavory events and long length of the film.

[unrelated, but residing in a place where the sun shines for nearly 20 hours sounds like a nightmare in itself]

they couldn't let this be a cute romance film??!? was the [redacted] plotline really necessary??!?

absolutely gorgeous looking film but so fckin sad in the last few minutes. a shame because i was soo sure that i will be rewatching it multiple times during the first half but then they started hinting at it in the second half and that ruined the whole fantasy of a non-traumatizing ending. the ml is thee biggest green flag ever tho.

also, the way its shot and edited makes it seem like the events in the story occurred in real; which of course makes it extra sad.

edit: just found out that the events actually DID occur in real life??!? I feel a different kinda miserable now.

the holdovers if there were no teacher to rely on and the stranded kid was extremely lonely and mentally ill

i saw kiernan shipka and knew this was gonna be good. love me some slow burn horror with lingering dread sprinkled in. pretty good although the constant bgm got freakin annoying at times.

tip: do NOT watch with people who lack patience (e.g., my sister); or yours will be tested as well.