The Ascending Stairs of the American Dream exposed as an endless spiral where you end up exactly where you started intially only more psychologically scarred.

A spiritual cousin to my beloved Nights of Cabiria, Naruse's film has more in common with European Neorealist films rather than classic Japanese Cinema. Keiko is a widow who after losing her beloved husband is forced to make ends meet by working as a barista in the most luxurious nightlife bars of Japan. There she…

The Bastardization and subsequent Cannibalization of Korea's Middle Class

How far will you go to maintain your social status? How many rules can you break before something breaks in you? Man-soo will say that he had no other choice but to become the monster.If the system is rigged then bending the rules isn't a sin, it's a necessity. As the ever shrinking social space of the once powerful middle class continues to fade, the people are forced to adapt or…

Kurosawa's swan song, his semi final film, is probably his most somber quiet melancholic film.

45 years after nuclear Armaggedon wiped Nagasaki off the map and 35 years after Kurosawa himself made one of the greatest films on nuclear war with I LIVE IN FEAR, the master returns again to the subject which most frightened him throughout his life. He is not that interested in "why" the bomb was dropped, more so to the reactions of those it affected.

Kurosawa…

2019 Ranking

Woody Allen RANKED

What a wonderful surprise!!I don't know if it has to do with me having very low expectations,the fact that I saw it in an open theater(Something I really need to do more often) or this being a genuinly great film but I had a blast with this one!

I haven't seen any modern films from Allen so I can't really say if this is very different from the rest but it very much seems like…