please bare in mind that I currently live in portland, oregon, where films come to feel exhausted from being seen in all the better, more important cities; some of these many of you may have already seen!

The Brother from Another Planet (1984)

this kind of film has never and will never be made again. It’s marketed as black comedy, but this movie is not funny at all. And I don’t mean that in a bad way: it gets a lot across (immigration, modern day slavery, drug abuse, etc.) in a low key, non-agressive way.

★ ★ ★ ★

Irreversible (2002)

★ ★ or ★ ★ ★  or ★ ★ ★ ★ (i really don’t know because this film is almost like torture, but it’s genius and incredibly ignorant all at once)

filed under the category of Things That Make Me Hate Men

Chugyeogja (2008)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ most realistic fight scene one could ask for in a violent korean flick.

Akmareul Boatda (2010)

★★★★★ ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

★★

Wow. Wow. Horrible. 2 stars for being all out bat shit crazy.

Ju-on: White Ghost/Black Ghost (2009)

★★★   meh

★★★

comedy? Drama? Whaaat? All I know is, Ewan McGregor transformed himself and it was confusing as to why he even bothered.

21 Grams (2003)

★★★☆

The Outsiders (1983)

★★★★

Night of the Comet (1984)

★★★

“I’m not crazy, I just don’t give a fuck!”

Deep Red (1975)

★★★

Monsoon Wedding (2001)

★★★★☆

Venus in Furs (1969)

★ ★

The Tree of Life (2011)

review to come, definitely need to write about this one.

★★★★☆