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The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

July 13, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Wes Anderson’s creative method revealed

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2025, benedict cumberbatch, benicio del toro, bryan cranston, comedy, family relationships, industrialist, mia threapleton, michael cera, movie review, richard ayoade, scarlett johansson, the phoenician scheme, tom hanks, wes anderson

Election (2005)

June 15, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A gangland civics lesson

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2000s, 2005, action, asia, election, gang war, gangsters, hong kong, johhnie to, movie review, nai-hoi yau, simon yam, tin-shing yip, tony ka kai leung, triads

Unknown Pleasures (2002)

June 10, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

There is no fucking future

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2000s, 2002, asia, china, disillusion, disillusioned youth, drama, economic anxiety, hongwei wang, jia zhangke, movie review, poverty, qiong wu, tao zhao, unknown pleasures, wei wei zhao

No Way Out (1987)

June 7, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Love and loyalty in the Pentagon

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1987, action, cold war, gene hackman, kevin costner, mole hunt, movie review, pentagon, robert garland, roger donaldson, romance, sean young, spy, thriller, washington dc, will patton

THX 1138 (1971)

June 1, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Short and bleak

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1970s, 1971, debut feature, donald pleasance, dystopia, dystopian, future, george lucas, maggie mcomie, movie review, robert duvall, science fiction

Harakiri (1962)

May 30, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Men of their word

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1960s, 1962, Akira Ishihama, drama, harakiri, honor, honor code, japan, Kei Satô, Masaki Kobayashi, movie review, politics, ritual suicide, ronin, samurai, Shima Iwashita, Shinobu Hashimoto, Tsatsuo Nakadai

Eye of God (1997)

May 26, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Savagery and innocence

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1990s, 1997, domestic abuse, eye of god, hal holbrook, kevin anderon, margo martindale, martha plimpton, midwest usa, movie review, murder mystery, nick stahl, oklahoma, religion, richard jenkins, small town, tim blake nelson

The Panic In Needle Park (1971)

May 23, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Love: not even once

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1970s, 1971, al pacino, alan vint, drama, drug addiction, drug trade, grimy, jerry schatzberg, joan didion, john gregory dunne, movie review, new york city, richard bright, romance, the panic in needle park

The Keep (1983)

May 20, 2025 Mikkel Frederiksen1 Comment

Keep away

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1983, alberta watson, fantasy, gabriel byrne, ian mckellen, Michael Mann, monster, movie review, nazi germany, scott glenn, supernatural, the keep

Tampopo (1985)

May 18, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Comfort food with a twist

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1985, comedy, cooking, culinary, food, japan, Jûzô Itami, ken watanabe, koji yakusho, movie review, nobuko miyamoto, ramen, tampopo, training montage, Tsutomu Yamazaki

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