{"id":265,"date":"2012-01-28T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/?page_id=265"},"modified":"2012-01-28T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:01:14","slug":"movie-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/movie-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews: TV and Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On occasion I go a bit crazy about writing TV\/movie reviews, so as they occur I thought I might share the links to my reviews. I&#8217;ll try to keep everything up to date, but don&#8217;t kill me if I fall behind.<\/p>\n<p>What I watch: action, adventure, biopics, comedy, fantasy, historical, rude humor, sci-fi&#8230; basically anything really. If it looks cool and I think I&#8217;ll enjoy it, I&#8217;m on it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-movie-feast-2006-spoilers-horror\/\">RE MOVIE: Feast (2006) (spoilers, horror)<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Alright, first off: Spoiler alerts.\nSo if you want to watch the movie before reading my ramblings, go do that.\nI&#8217;m going to describe the happenings of the movie, and I&#8217;m also going to fantasize with my brain about all the other choices they could make for a follow up.\nAnd straight off? It was dumb.\nIt was a ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-movie-sunshine-beautiful-movie-scifimovies\/\">RE MOVIE: &#8220;Sunshine&#8221; is such a beautiful movie #scifimovies<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">There&#8217;s something about the science fiction movie &#8220;Sunshine&#8221; that makes me watch it every time it comes on TV.\nI own a copy of the DVD.\nIt&#8217;s just such a great science fiction movie that I can&#8217;t resist the allure of watching it when it appears.\nYou have to see it from the beginning, so you can understand ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-usagi-dropbunny-drop-japanese-movie\/\">RE: Usagi Drop\/Bunny Drop [Japanese movie]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Based on a manga, I just watched Usagi Drop (or Bunny Drop if you&#8217;ve got a Viki movie pass) and it was adorable. Featuring the guy that played L in the live action Death Note, and the little girl that played young Mako in Pacific Rim.\n \n Daikichi (Kenichi Matsuyama) is a 27-year-old office worker ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-hackers-the-movie\/\">RE: Hackers (the movie)<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">When I was a teenager, the movie Hackers was the greatest thing ever to me and I loved it. I still have a copy on DVD.\n Sexy Burn, vibrantly dressed Crash, and a bunch of brightly cheerful pseudo-hippies\/anarchists. What wasn&#8217;t there to love? This movie had it all, including a red leather motorcycle suit, close ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-the-faculty-movie\/\">Re: The Faculty [movie]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">So this is one of those teen movies where a bunch of kids fight the alien invasion by killing people and doing drugs. Basically, it&#8217;s high school.\nBtw, this movie has a crazy number of famous actors in it &#8212; Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Shawn Hatosy, Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen, Christopher McDonald, ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-your-highness-comedy-fantasy\/\">MOVIE: Your Highness [comedy, fantasy]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Your Highness\nDirected by: David Gordon Green\nStarring: Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman\nRating: R (for language, imagery, etc)\nStoryline from Universal: Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-review-portrait-of-a-beauty-korean\/\">MOVIE REVIEW: Portrait of a Beauty [Korean]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Portrait of a Beauty\nDirected by Jeon Yoon-soo\nScreenplay by Han Soon-ryeon\nAlternative title : &#8220;Beauty Island&#8221;\nSynopsis borrowed from HanCinema: Born to a family of established court painters, seven-year-old Yun-jeong is a young girl gifted at painting. However, the pressure is on her brother to carry on the proud family tradition, as women aren\u2019t allowed to become ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-bachelors-vegetable-store-kdrama\/\">RE: Bachelor&#8217;s Vegetable Store (kdrama)<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I watch all these kdramas and they warp my notions of reality. I think that I sympathize more with straight forward characters like Dong Yi and Han Tae Yang because that&#8217;s pretty much how I am. Though I think they give themselves more trouble than they really need if they would just be honest with ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/tv-show-the-grim-adventures-of-billy-mandy-english\/\">TV SHOW: The Grim Adventures of Billy &#038; Mandy [English]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">The Grim Adventures of Billy &amp; Mandy\nCreator: Maxwell Atoms\nStars: Greg Eagles, Richard Steven Horvitz, and Grey DeLisle\nFeaturing the voices of Greg Eagles (Grim), Grey DeLisle (Mandy), and Richard Steven Horvitz (Billy),the series stars the two main characters, Billy and Mandy, having manipulated the Grim Reaper, usually called &#8220;Grim&#8221;, into being their best friend for eternity ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-i-saw-the-devil-korean\/\">MOVIE: I Saw the Devil [Korean]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I Saw the Devil\nRated: R for graphic depictions of violence\nDirector: Jee-woon Kim\nWriter: Hoon-hung Park (screenplay)\nStarring: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik choi, and Gook-hwan Jeon\nSummary borrowed from IMDB: When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;\nWow. I don&#8217;t even ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-the-monster-chinese-movie\/\">RE: The Monster [Chinese Movie]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: The Monster a.k.a. Home Sweet Home\nStarring: Shu Qi and Alex Fong, Tam Chun-Ho\nSummary: A young family moves into a nice Hong Kong high rise and things immediately begin to go badly for them. They&#8217;re only there for a short time&#8211;maybe a week&#8211;when their three year old son Chi Lo is abducted. The mother frantically ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-the-man-from-nowhere-korean-movie-action\/\">MOVIE: The Man From Nowhere [Korean movie] action<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">The Man From Nowhere\nKorean action movie\nDirector: Jeong-beom Lee\nWriter: Jeong-beom Lee\nStarring: Bin Won, Thanayong Wongtrakul, and Sae-ron Kim\nSummary borrowed from IMDB: A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug- and organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;\nOkay, so this is one of those great action ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-review-returner-japanese-sci-fi-action\/\">MOVIE REVIEW: Returner [Japanese] sci-fi, action<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Returner\nDirected by: Takashi Yamazaki\nWritten by: Takashi Yamazaki, Kenya Hirata\nStarring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Anne Suzuki, and Goro Kishitani\nSummary from IMDB: A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;\nOkay, so this movie is basically ET, The Matrix, Transformers, and Terminator all ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/tv-show-coffee-house-korean\/\">TV SHOW: Coffee House [Korean]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Coffee House\nDirected by: Pyo Min-Soo\nStarring: Kang Ji Hwan as Lee Jin Soo, Park Si Yeon as Seo Eun Young, Ham Eun Jung as Kang Seung Yeon, and Jung Woong In as Han Ji Won\nSynopsis taken from DramaWiki:\u00a0\u00a0 Lee Jin Soo made it big after writing several thriller novels and establishing himself as a talented novelist. ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-review-pandorum-sci-fi-horror\/\">MOVIE REVIEW: Pandorum [sci-fi, horror]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Pandorum\nGenre: sci-fi, horror\nRating: R\nDirector: Christian Alvart\nWriters: Travis Milloy (screenplay)\nStars: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet\nSummary borrowed from IMDB: A pair of crew members aboard a spaceship wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities.\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-\nIf you like gritty sci-fi horror, then this movie is for you. A pretty slick trip into a ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/tv-show-review-the-painter-of-the-wind-korean\/\">TV SHOW REVIEW: The Painter of the Wind [Korean]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">TV Show: The Painter of the Wind\ngenre: k-drama, historical, girl-dressed-as-boy\nSummary: This is a what-if story. In the novel Painter of the Wind by Lee Jeong-myeong, the Joseon-era painter Hyewon (Shin Yoon-bok) is portrayed as a woman disguised as a man, and that is the story the 2008 television show is portraying. And the fact that ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-review-a-frozen-flower-korean-movie-mm\/\">MOVIE REVIEW: A Frozen Flower [Korean movie] mm<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Movie: A Frozen Flower\nGenre: mm, Korean, historical\nRated: R for graphic violence, sex\nDirector: Ha Yu\nWriter: Ha Yu (screenplay)\nStars: Jin-mo Ju, Ji-hyo Song, In-seong Jo\nIMDB says: A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard.\nHanCinema says: Source\u00a0http:\/\/www.koreanfilm.or.kr\u00a0 Synopsis:\u00a0 In the end of Goryeo era politically manipulated by ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/writing-editing-and-watching-tv\/\">Writing, editing, and watching TV<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I&#8217;ve been trying my hand at watercolor painting. It has not been going well at all \ud83d\ude41 While I have the eye of a great artist, I have the drawing\/painting skills of a less than third grader. It is very sad.\nThere&#8217;s so many things I want to be able to do, so I get kind ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movies-to-watch\/\">Movies To Watch<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Here&#8217;s a general list of movies to watch. Truly awesome movies that can change your world&#8230; or at the very least thrill you for a couple of hours.\n\nSCIENCE FICTION\/FANTASY\/HORROR&#8212;\n12 Monkeys\n28 Days Later\n28 Weeks Later\nAI&#8211;A truly great movie about a robot boy just wanting to be loved.\nAliens&#8211;The whole series is truly great. What&#8217;s to hate about ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/totally-funny-movies-that-everyone-should-watch-at-least-once\/\">Totally Funny Movies That Everyone Should Watch (at least once)<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Here&#8217;s a list of FUNNY! movies. Laugh out loud movies that I&#8217;m certain I will always find humorous, even if some of them are just plain silly.\n\nFUNNY\n\n&#8211;200 Pound Beauty&#8211;Korean movie. Hilarious!\n&#8211;A Christmas Story\n&#8211;A Fish Called Wanda\n&#8211;Animal House\n&#8211;Army of Darkness\n&#8211;Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery\n&#8211;Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me\n&#8211;Beerfest\n&#8211;Blades of Glory\n&#8211;Brady Bunch Movie\n&#8211;Club Dread\n&#8211;Coneheads\n&#8211;Corky ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/alien-movie-paul\/\">alien movie &#8220;Paul&#8221;<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I am currently watching &#8220;Paul,&#8221; and while it&#8217;s never going to be any kind of a favorite movie, it&#8217;s an interesting watch. A lot of silly humor, plenty of geeky references, and Simon Pegg.\n It&#8217;s just rather unfortunate that they wanted so badly to get that R-rating that they took a PG-13 movie and bumped ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-review-real-steel\/\">MOVIE REVIEW: Real Steel<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Real Steel Genre: action, science fiction, boxing My rating: 3 out of 5. A great popcorn movie, but as I&#8217;m not a 12-year old boy, probably something I&#8217;d only watch once.\n Review: Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a down on his out ex-boxer, current robot boxing contestant. A foolhardy risk taker, he owes money ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/reviews\/movie-reviews\/\">Archive of movie and television reviews<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On occasion I go a bit crazy about writing TV\/movie reviews, so as they occur I thought I might share the links to my reviews. I&#8217;ll try to keep everything up to date, but don&#8217;t kill me if I fall behind. What I watch: action, adventure, biopics, comedy, fantasy, historical, rude humor, sci-fi&#8230; basically anything&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/movie-reviews\/\" title=\"Reviews: TV and Movies\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reviews: TV and Movies<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1002,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-265","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2pPoL-4h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1002,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":265,"position":0},"title":"Reviews","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"June 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Movie and Television Reviews Book Reviews","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":269,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/reviews-books\/","url_meta":{"origin":265,"position":1},"title":"Reviews: Books","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"January 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I love to read and I've read a lot over the years. 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