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Favorite films

  • Uptight
  • Memories of Murder
  • Detention
  • White Dog

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  • Last Action Hero

    ★★★★½

  • Clouds of Sils Maria

    ★★★½

  • mother!

    ★★★½

  • Mother

    ★★★½

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Last Action Hero

1993

★★★★½ Liked 5

ACTION SCENES: 8
TOTAL ACTION TIME: 41.25 /130 min. (31.7/100)
CHOREOGRAPHY: 4/10
STUNTS: 8/10
EDITING: 8/10
FINALE: 7/10
MISCELLANEOUS MENTIONS: None
TOTAL ACTION JUNKIE SCORE: 66.7

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A film that gets better every time you watch it.

I'm not sure anything this meta had ever been done on such a grand scale, with such massive A-list talent, at the peaks of their careers, when this film dropped in 1993. And boy howdy did…

Clouds of Sils Maria

2014

★★★½ Liked Watched

The first half plays somewhat generic arthouse European, but the movie surprises in its second half.

An aging actress (Juliette Binoche) is offered the chance to play the role that made her famous but as an older character/woman, with a new up-and-coming Hollywood starlet (Chloë Grace Moretz) in the role of the new blood.

As others have pointed out, the movie has Binoche deliver a somewhat scene-chewing performance as the aging actress, with Kristn Stewart (playing her assistant) stealing the…

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Blood Tea and Red String

2006

★★★★½ Liked 8

You're going to fall into one of two camps with this one: 1) You give a shit. 2) You don't.

A 70 minute film 13 years in the making by 1 single solo artiste, Christiane Cegavske, every second of Blood Tea and Red String is filled with mesmerizing handcrafted imagery. The opening live action sequence alone is worth the price of ission: where Christiane, wearing a painted mask molded from her own face, cuts a real cake and whole, giant…

Chinatown Kid

1977

★★★★½ Liked 3

CHANG CHEH FILMOGRAPHY #56/90

ACTION SCENES: 10
TOTAL ACTION TIME: 20/114 min. (17.5/100)
CHOREOGRAPHY: 8/10
STUNTS: 7/10
EDITING: 9/10
FINALE: 7/10
MISCELLANEOUS MENTIONS: None
TOTAL ACTION JUNKIE SCORE: 58.5

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My favorite Alexander Fu Sheng film.

I watched this quite a few years ago and was beyond impressed by how well put together the entire affair is. It isn't action packed - let's get that out of the way. But it is chock full…