No Other Choice

“Oh, gosh…Park Chan-wook just made another good movie instead of another masterpiece. What a disappointment.” One thing I’ve learned from my obsessive deep dives into filmmaker careers is that they rarely make great movies. They most often make good movies. There will be exceptions, but they’re vanishingly rare, and people like John Ford have long…

Decision to Leave

I keep rewatching this film, and I keep gaining more affection for it with every watch. And the more I watch it, the more I think of it to the point where I wonder...is this Park Chan-wook’s masterpiece? I think it may be. Surely, that must be Oldboy, right? His most well-regarded film, right? Well,…

ANOTHER Movie Channel Presents: Park Chan-wook – The Directors Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuDTYmurPgQ Still alive, bruh. Before the writing is done, bruh. Like, subscribe, cult, bruh.

The Little Drummer Girl, Episodes 5 and 6

Finally...a review. Seeing the complete journey of Charlie (Florence Pugh) from superficial leftist actress to spy for Mossad to completely unsure of where her loyalties lie, and I can now say that it’s...really effective. There are a lot of interesting things about what love means in this kind of unique circumstance, and Park Chan-wook presents…

The Little Drummer Girl, Episodes 3 and 4

Episodes three and four act as the second act of the story. At the end of Episode 2 was Godi asking Charlie to take a red Mercedes full of plastic explosives across two borders into Austria, to Salzburg, to take the car to the drop off that Martin had extracted from Michel. It’s where the…