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January 27, 2012 0 comments

MOVIE REVIEW: A Frozen Flower [Korean movie] mm

Movie: A Frozen Flower
Genre: mm, Korean, historical
Rated: R for graphic violence, sex

Director: Ha Yu
Writer: Ha Yu (screenplay)
Stars: Jin-mo Ju, Ji-hyo Song, In-seong Jo

IMDB says: A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard.

HanCinema says: Source http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr Synopsis: In the end of Goryeo era politically manipulated by the Yuan Dynasty, the ambitious King of the Goryeo Dynasty organizes Kunryongwe. Hong Lim, the commander of Kunryongwe, captivates the King of Goryeo, and the Queen keeps her eyes on the relationship between Hong Lim and the King with a reluctant view. Meanwhile, the bilateral relation between Goryeo and the Yuan gets worse as Yuan demands to install the cousin of the King in the Crown Prince of Goryeo with ascribing it to no son the King has. The King refuses it resolutely, so the high-ranking officials of Goryeo, who are in submission to Yuan, are discontented with the king. One day, the King gives Hong Lim a covert yet unobjectionable order to sleep with the Queen instead of himself to protect the independence of Goryeo from the Yuan by making a son, the successor to Goryeo throne.

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October 14, 2011 0 comments

alien movie “Paul”

I am currently watching “Paul,” and while it’s never going to be any kind of a favorite movie, it’s an interesting watch. A lot of silly humor, plenty of geeky references, and Simon Pegg.

It’s just rather unfortunate that they wanted so badly to get that R-rating that they took a PG-13 movie and bumped it up with vulgar language. I mean, I might have let my nephew watch it, but for all the language.

He’s such a nerdy creature that I’m sure he would totally love the movie and appreciate the watching of it more than I have. Except there’s so much bad language that there’s just no way.

October 14, 2011 0 comments

MOVIE REVIEW: Real Steel

Title: Real Steel
Genre: action, science fiction, boxing
My rating: 3 out of 5. A great popcorn movie, but as I’m not a 12-year old boy, probably something I’d only watch once.

Review: Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a down on his out ex-boxer, current robot boxing contestant. A foolhardy risk taker, he owes money all over the place and is desperate for a single win. But when his ex-girlfriend is killed in an accident, Charlie is left with the custody of the eleven year old son he’s never met.

The boy, Max, has been taken in by his maternal aunt who wants to have custody of him. Charlie agrees to sign the custody papers after talking her much-older husband into ponying up $100,000 to pay for the child–half now and half later.

Charlie takes the boy and uses the money to buy himself a new robot boxer. From there, it becomes an all-out rock ’em, sock ’em robot experience.

What you have here is Hugh Jackman, a bunch of giant robots, a cute kid, and an underdog story. So if you like all that… this is your movie. And even if you don’t like all that, it’s still a popcorn movie that will leave you thoroughly entertained.