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This soundtrack to The Bad Kids, featuring each different end-credit track for all the episodes, has gotten numerous spins from me over the past 6 months. Y'all should check out the series - it was awesome.

Hey @sitenoise ... saw this https://movie.douban.com/subject/30128916/ and thought it would be right up your alley ... well, notionally anyway, maybe. Gong Li, Huang Bo and some dude from An Elephant Standing Still in a film about women's volleyball!

I saw the first episode of the new Chinese drama series The Bad Kids last night. I've resisted investing in serialised dramas for quite a while now, but several people were urging me to break with tradition for this one and telling me it was right up my alley, and they were damned well right.

That's because you're just like main girl's friend - all convenient store employees look the same to you! But seriously, I think that's quite intentional - he's never fleshed out enough to make a proper character assessment (it would be as pointless for the viewer as casting judgement on the...

It had never occurred to me that hospital girl and ping-pong girl (aka hand-holding girl) were the same person - right from the first watch, I thought they were different. But ... I think your photos confirm what hancinema indicates - based on 5 acting credits, they must be the same girl (if you...

Okay … I found myself going back and rewatching slabs of December to check out the shifting timeframes. I’ll put down my take on the very last scene of the film (which isn’t the last scene in the overall chronology of events) – there’s probably nothing that is a “spoiler” in the pure sense of...

December (Park Jeong-hoon, 2013) Okay – I had a crack at this one, and here are some thoughts. It’s structured as twelve short vignettes or scenes, each given the title of a consecutive month, commencing with January. At the beginning, they’re both random, but connected. The same guy, the same...

Your earlier description gave me the impression of a Zhang Lu A Quiet Dream vibe ... your trailer reminds me of something akin to early Lee Yoon-ki ala This Charming Girl. There's an amusing part in Machete Maidens Unleashed, a doco on Roger Corman and New World Pictures' move into film...

Or the Comedy. I'm actually a fan of trailers - at their best, they can be an art form in their own right. In my formative years, watching the trailer reel was an essential part of the whole cinema experience - things like the trailer for Brian de Palma's Obsession etched themselves into a...

Sounds like something that would be awesome or awful. Adding to intrigue is an imdb entry listing the genre as "Documentary, Comedy". Lol.

Montage (Jeong Geun-seop, 2013) begins with snippets of a flashback – a kidnapping has somehow ended in the death of a child. Skip forward to the present, and the detective assigned to the still unsolved case is telling the mother that the 15 year statute of limitations expires on the case in a...

The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini, 2017) delves into Balinese mythology and culture through the eyes of a child. 10-year-old Tantri had always been inseparable from her twin brother Tantra, but now an inoperable brain tumor has left him lying comatose in a hospital bed. Outwardly, Tantri is...

In my youth, Queen Seondeok was always on my radar, but now that the ravages of age have taken hold I lack the patience to invest in lengthy dramas. Alas, what could have been ...

Lol ... it was a hotbed of activity, and then I rock up an hour too late. Is this place like real life or what? I was interested in hearing your take on Paju - it's one of those films that seemed to feature prominently in people's best-of lists back when it was released, but has since become a...

I liked it a lot - I wrote some comments on it on the Cinema: International forum back in August; you should be able to find the comments here. I'd happily recommend it to almost everyone, and it'll make a pretty decent introduction to South Korean cinema for anyone who's never ventured into...

Thanks for the recommendation. Purely by coincidence, I came across this title yesterday afternoon in my yet-to-see European arthouse pile without even realising what it was. From Wang Xiaoshuai, I've only ever seen Red Amnesia. I was impressed with the way Wang had constructed his film with a...

Tuya’s Marriage (Wang Quan’an, 2006) kicks off with Tuya on her camel out on the plains of Inner Mongolia, herding sheep. She comes across a chap lying comatose on the freezing ground, having come off a motorbike. With all the enthusiasm and sense of urgency of someone doing the dishes, she...

新年快乐 !!! Lost on Journey (Raymond Yip, 2010) is the type of film that I imagine gets trotted out onto Chinese television at this time every year. Xu Zheng is the ruthless owner of a toy manufacturing company, who is flying home to his wife and daughter in Changsha this New Year/Spring Festival...

I thought this one was great - one reviewer's comment that summed it up really nicely was along the lines of "the viewer walks out of a different film to which they went into".

Gone With The Light (Dong Runnian, 2019) A mysterious burst of light appears over random cities, resulting in hundreds of people in each location simply disappearing into thin air. Those left behind start noticing that most of those who have disappeared can be linked through a romantic...