No 30 out of 30 for the March Around The World Challenge

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Country: Russia

A soviet cosmonaut returns from a mission with a dead fellow astronaut and a parasitic alien inside of him. The space agency locks him up to study and attempt to separate them. Horror ensues.

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Sputnik is a nicely done horror sci-fi drama all wrapped up in a 1970s era Soviet Russian bow. It is chock-full of body…

No 23 out of 30 for the March Around The World Challenge

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Country: Japan

The setting Japan during WWII. A boy loses his mother in a bombing, and moves with his father to the countryside to flee both the grief of losing her and the effects of the war on the city. In the country he will live in an old family home with his pregnant stepmother who also happens to be his aunt. Near…

No. 1 of the 30 Countries 2014 Challenge. See complete list.

This was not merely a movie but a emotional rollercoaster. Rarely do I experience and switch between such a wide array of emotions through the entirety of a film.

It started with the uncomfortable feeling of experiencing something personal which has nothing to do with you. The beginning of the film, where Simin is facing the camera head on and basically shouting at the viewers sets the mood for…