Ozu Odyssey #28: Good Morning

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set. For anyone who perceives Ozu as artsy or pretentious, you should know that Good Morning has a running gag involving a group of young boys trying to fart on command. One of them has trouble with his, ah, control, …

#55b: A Chinese Ghost Story II

Director: Siu-Tung Ching Writers: Kan Keito, Kee-To Lam, Tai-Mok Lau Four young people are caught in a tug-o-war of evil between an Imperial Wizard and a corrupt General. A Chinese Ghost Story is an all-around classic, a genre-tripping blast of lovable fun. This continuation isn’t as cohesive or as clever, but if the original left …

Saturday Night Shorts 2

Back with two more hours of eclectic shorts pulled from YouTube. Pick and choose what catches your eye or do what I did and watch the playlist front to back (embedded at the bottom of the page). #1: The Wanderer of Catabranca https://youtu.be/HbWf-LILXWk Director: Leonardo Rolla A couple of farmers receive a box from an …

#55a: A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)Director: Siu-Tung ChingWriters: Songling Pu, Kai-Chi YuenAfter a string of bad luck, a debt collector has no other choice than to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he encounters a ravishing female ghost and later battles to save her soul from the control of a wicked tree demon. Officially, …

16oz Cinema #39 Joker and Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood

I haven't abandoned this blog, I've just watched two middling movies in a row and am avoiding writing them up because I really don't want to. It's vicious laziness, and I need to get over it and get back to having some fun on here. In the meantime, 16oz Cinema continues, despite our big dispute …

16oz Cinema Episode 32

I've actually watched two more movies off the list, but due to being lazy, sick, uninspired, I've yet to write anything up on them. 16oz Cinema episodes are also getting delayed due to sickness, etc but here's Episode 32, in which I have an asthma attack, Mike talks about lake baths, and somehow we manage …