Jun Sen Tan

discovering films one diary entry at a time

Favorite films

  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • Taxi Driver
  • Come and See
  • A Ghost Story

All
  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★

  • Red Desert

    ★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    ★★★★½

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Second time in 4DX, holy shit it's so worth your money to go watch movies in JB as a Singaporean, like where tf are you gonna get novelty large formats like that

They really spray fog/water/air in your face and try their absolute best to yank you off your seat; it's most violent especially during the cave car chase/submarine/biplane death spiral sequences. EVEN the backrest has like different settings for impact so if Ethan's back is bashed against a…

Red Desert

1964

★★★★ Watched

As always, Michaelangelo Antonioni's movies get lost on me the longer it runs, maybe I just have terrible attention span but I can always appreciate how sublime his movies look.

This one is about a woman losing her shit to trauma, loneliness and a husband too caught up with work at the workplace; something we all know and relate to too well. That mystical shot of Monica Vitti facing four of her friends disappearing into fog? LEGENDARY stuff.

David Forgac's commentary helped me to appreciate the movie even more after my initial viewing. I highly recommend checking his yapping session if you're a moviehead like me

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Marry My Dead Body

2022

★★★★½ Liked Watched

Taiwan's answer to Everything Everywhere All At Once (as aptly suggested by @huirumay). I've been longing for another good Taiwanese film after 月老 and they gave it in the form of this messy, campy film hahaha.

The plot is unnecessarily complex and fairly predictable but the selling points come from the ghost marriage, insight into Taiwanese gay marriage, the truly LMAO jokes and seeing all my fave Taiwanese actors collide in one high-octane action-comedy (Ma Nian Xian, Gingle Wang, Greg…

Ah Girls Go Army

2022

½ Watched

All the major red flags of this movie:
- Constant fade to blacks.
- Consistent lowbrow humour.
- Filmed without consultation from SAF (see AsiaOne's featurette)
- Started filming in December, slated for release in February (see AsiaOne's featurette)
- No contingencies for rain (see AsiaOne's featurette)
- Made fun of transgender women with Amanda Man (wakeupsingapore)
- Fat shame obese women (wakeupsingapore)
- Littered with product placements
- Use NFTs as a miserable marketing tactic to pull Singaporeans to…