This is a Japanese film brought to you by Tetsuya Nakashima, the maker of the movie Confessions. The film is a non-linear story told about an estranged father searching for his missing daughter – Kanako. The more he searches, the more he discovers about her. It’s quite a twisted tale and is a good watch. … Read more
Murder By Numbers is the story of a couple of juvenile murderers. I say that like it’s a very common thing, while the movie is not disturbing, the concept is. They want to prove that they are above the law when it comes to getting away with murder. They are also messed up kids who … Read more
A Scanner Darkly is directed by Richard Linklater, the guy who gave us Boyhood. Not known to many, this film. It sort of slipped through the cracks. It features Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder, to name a few. This is well before Downey Jr became Iron Man. The visuals of … Read more
Confessions (Kokuhaku),a Japanese film, is the story of Yuko Moriguchi, a teacher, a mother, who has lost her young daughter. Her daughter dies in an apparent swimming pool accident and drowns. Yuko knows that it was not an accident but a murder. She decides to take revenge. The film is set in the context of … Read more
This movie goes by many names. The original Cantonese name is Yi ge ren de wu lin. In English it goes by the names Kung Fu Jungle, Kung Fu Killer and Last of the Best. Why you ask? I don’t know, lost in translation may be? This is a Hong Kong Chinese movie starring Donnie … Read more
Side Effects stars Rooney Mara (The Girl from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Channing Tatum (of the Step Up fame), Jude Law and Catherine Zeta Jones. This one was a 2013 installment from the director who gave us The Ocean’s Trilogy. Here’s the film Side Effects explained. Plot Explanation Martin (Channing) reunites with his … Read more
The Oscar nominee for Best Actress is what Rosamund Pike (of the James Bond fame) earned for this role of hers. When I saw the movie, I was really impressed with the acting. But, when it came to the story line, there were gaping holes. The gaping holes were there in the novel and simply … Read more
I got to know about the Death Note movies sometime in 2009, a good three years after the first film came out. The only other Japanese film I had seen at that time was perhaps Ringu (the original version of The Ring) and Ju-on (the original version of The Grudge). This is an explanation of … Read more
