Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The Royal hotel

 You'll have to be comfortable with a fair amount of male attention

Year: 2023
Director: 
Kitty Green
Writer: Kitty Green, Oscar Redding
Starring: Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Herbert Nordrum, Ursula Yovich
Alex Malone, Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Nic Darrigo, Adam Morgan, Adam MacNeill, Ben Eggleton, Barbara Lowing, Daniel Henshall, Bruce R. Carter, Toby Wallace
What is this about: Psykological thriller road movie about two backpackers working in a distant pub in australian countryside

Content warnings: Violence
Best about it: Ominous and nicely mysterious atmosphere without really being scary, dusty aesthetics
How did I felt: Entertained, interested
Goodness: 3/5
Weirdness: 2/5

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Gyesirok (Revelations)

 Things like devils and monsters are created by humans to justify themselves

Year: 2025
Director: Yeon Sang-ho

Writer: Kyu-Seok Choi, Yeon Sang-ho
Starring: Ryu Jun-yeol, Shin Hyun-been, Shin Min-jae,Han Ji-hyun, Kim Bo-min,  Kim Do-young, Moon Joo-yeon, Bae Yoon-gyu, Oh Chi-woon, Woo Kang-min
What is this about: Crime mystery movie about pastor of a small church who is suspecting a pedophile on parole to be kidnapper. The pastor believes he is following a divine revelations to punish sinners.

Content warnings: Violence
Best about it: Intruiging plot, many plot twists and nicely ominous atmosphere.
How did I felt: Entertained
Goodness: 4/5
Weirdness: 2/5

Monday, September 1, 2025

Caught Stealing

Let's go back to your place and you can take advantage of my poor judgement

Year: 2025
Director: Darren Aronofsky

Writer: Charlie Huston
Starring: Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Griffin Dunne, Dominique Silver, Shaun O'Hagan, Action Bronson, Kitty Lawrence, Matt Smith
What is this about: Ex-baseball player Hank is having pretty normal life: working as bartender, calling his mother everyday, dating a dream girl and strugling with his drinking habits. When he promise to pet sit for his neighbors cat things starts to get too wild with incidents with cops and Russian mobsters.

Content warnings: Violence
Best about it: Strong performances, nice plot with enough plot twists. I expected to see something a bit lighter but it was nice suprise how rough the movie actually was even tho having some comedy in it.
How did I felt: Entertained, shocked, excited
Goodness: 4/5
Weirdness: 3/5