International

Review: Marguerite

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics So I watched this French Film Marguerite, written & directed by Xavier Giannoli about a woman who loves singing but isn’t good at it and no one tells her the truth. So now I’m sitting here watching what I think is supposed to be a comedy…

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Review: The Taking of Tiger Mountain

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics The Taking of Tiger Mountain. Doesn’t that sound like pure fire? You see that trailer and it just sounds and looks like some extra gully Hong Kong experience. See, The Taking of Tiger Mountain is an adaptation of the novel ‘Tracks’ in the Snowy Mountain. It’s…

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Review: The Blue Room

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics The Blue Room is an interesting and tense little film. It’s a film that really has a main character that is really quite standard now. A middle-aged man named Julien is in an adulterous relationship with another woman; living this double life. The film starts in…

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Review: The Trip To Italy

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics How would do you describe The Trip To Italy to someone who, maybe like some of you, have never seen The Trip? Well, let me give it a shot. The Trip To Italy is the sophisticated and worldly man’s bromantic comedy. Much like the earlier film…

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Review: Axel: The Biggest Little Hero

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics I’m a big cartoon guy, I still watch cartoons on Saturday morning and have my TiVo record all the current series on Cartoon Network. I’m pretty open to watching animated films also. Even though I’m open I’m also pretty critical of them. Now when this new…

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Review: The German Doctor

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics Every now and then you end up seeing films that you literally never heard of from anywhere. This tends to happen with a lot of foreign films for us people here in the United States; even with all our Internet and social media and such, things…

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