Reviews

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: Before I Go To Sleep

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics Now when I first saw the trailer for Before I Go To Sleep not too long ago while seeing Gone Girl I felt like, “Hmm this seems a lot like Memento with creepy dudes in it.” So when this the film started with its extreme close-up…

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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: Rudderless

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics School shootings are a pretty taboo subject to tackle in fiction and especially in film. To be honest, the only one that sticks out in my mind is Gus Van Zant’s Elephant. Now for some this might be spoiler-y but one of the major factors in…

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Review: I Am Ali

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics We are at a weird time here with professional sports in the United States. It seems like each week we hear of another scandal of sports figures that are in some sort of issue of domestic violence, child abuse, or some drug-related crime and this past…

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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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