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…

ANOTHER Movie Channel Presents: Joe Dante – The Definitive Ranking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9qq1ZXAWPo Chaos, bruh. Anarchy, bruh. Impassioned pleas just to be fun, bruh. Definitive, bruh. Like, subscribe, cult, bruh.

The Little Drummer Girl, Episodes 1 and 2

This isn’t a review of the first two episodes of Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of John le Care’s novel. Reviewing individual episodes of a serialized television series would be like reviewing the first act of a film and nothing else. It’s possible, but it’s an empty exercise because you need the whole picture. So, this is…

The Handmaiden

Park Chan-wook continues his female focused run with The Handmaiden, an adaptation of the 2002 novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. Changing the setting from Victorian England to Japanese-occupied Korea during WWII, he seems to have kept the narrative largely intact (by reading the summary of the novel), and the story ends up this wonderfully twisting…

Stoker

I have no idea why Park Chan-wook decided to go to Tennessee and film a movie set in North Carolina instead of staying in Korea. Maybe he just wanted to see what it was like to make a movie in America. Working from an original script by Wentworth Miller and produced by the Scott brothers…