Love Sick The Series Season 2: Episode 13 Recap

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 13

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 13

Summaries (Spoilers, Obviously) and Comments

Note: I group summaries by story line, not in presentation order. If you want to know how the scenes actually played out in their official sequence, why not follow this link to the episode and watch for yourself?

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Animals (Spain: 2012): Love and Death gets a Cool Treatment

Animals (2012)

Animals (2012)

Marçal Forés’s high school drama about a young man discovering his sexuality caught between surreal childhood fantasy and Romantic adolescent angst falls short of leaving an emotional impression. You’ll remember it as the sad movie about the boy with the yellow bear, but it’s too fixated on teen-aged death fantasy to feel genuine.

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NYAFF 2015: What We’re Looking Forward To

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NYAFF; The 3 I’m Seeing (l-r): Aim High in Creation (Australia: 2013); Maruyama: The Middle Schooler (Japan; 2013); The Eternal Zero (Japan: 2014)

The New York Asian Film Festival runs from June 27 – July 15 this year. I usually try to go to a few of the offerings. I generally like their program as it focuses more on popular films coming out of Asia and doesn’t limit itself to whatever broad critical acclaim brings us film festival tedium. The Asian films that European critics Love are seldom the ones that keep me engaged. One criticism I have of the festival is that “Asia” is narrowly defined as Japan, Korea and the China zone. Sure that covers 1.5 billion people, but there are other countries with robust film industries that are worth a peek. But for what it does, it usually has a line up of films that are worth seeking out.

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Love Sick The Series Season 2: Episode 12 Recap

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 12

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 12

Summaries (Spoilers, Obviously) and Comments

Note: I group summaries by story line, not in presentation order. If you want to know how the scenes actually played out in their official sequence, why not follow this link to the episode and watch for yourself?

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Love Sick The Series Season 2: Episode 11 Recap

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 11

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 11

Summaries (Spoilers, Obviously) and Comments

Note: I group summaries by story line, not in presentation order. If you want to know how the scenes actually played out in their official sequence, why not follow this link to the episode and watch for yourself?

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Review: Dangerous Boys (Thailand: 2014): Youthsploitation for Everyone?

Dangerous Boys (Thailand: 2014)

Dangerous Boys (Thailand: 2014)

Poj Arnon’s youth-oriented Dangerous Boys has a little bit of everything, to the point where it feels like it’s pandering more than telling a story.

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Love Sick The Series Season 2: Episode 10 Recap

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 10

 Summaries (Spoilers, Obviously) and Comments

Note: I group summaries by story line, not in presentation order. If you want to know how the scenes actually played out in their official sequence, why not follow this link to the episode and watch for yourself?

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Review: Still the Water (Japan: 2014): A teenage love story for adults

Still the Water (2014)

Still the Water (2014)

Naomi Kawase’s Still the Water accomplishes something rare: a romance about young people that is clearly targeted to a more sophisticated adult audience that doesn’t rely on melodramatic tropes.  The nuanced characters, verdant natural scenery and rich themes could make this a film worth watching, but it is marred by pacing issues. I wouldn’t blame you if you checked your watch now and again. 

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Anticipated Films: Six I hope to see soon

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My Six:
1) Red Wine in the Dark Night (Thailand: 2015); 2) Children’s Show (Philippines: 2014)
3) Waterboyy (Thailand: 2015); 4) How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) (USA: 2015)
5) Butterfly (Korea: 2015); 6) Speedwalking (Denmark: 2014)

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Love Sick The Series Season 2: Episode 9 Recap

Love Sick Season 2: Episode 9

Love Sick Season 2: Episode 9

Summaries (Spoilers, Obviously) and Comments

Note: I group summaries by story line, not in presentation order. If you want to know how the scenes actually played out in their official sequence, why not follow this link to the episode and watch for yourself? 

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