Baahubali 1 and 2 are India's most expensive films ever, and they are actually quite enjoyable from the point of view of a western audience. They are excessively long, but the story is rather intriguing. You will need to watch both to understand what is going on; the first sets the stage in the present, while the second focuses more on establishing what led to the events in the first. Not how I would...
Interesting premise for a movie. Female Soviet soldier (yeah, not entirely realistic), Chinese peasant, and Jap teenager are forced to assist each other to survive following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria at the end of the war, in spite of language barrier and distrust. Anti war sentiment is strong with this one, as is a hint of anti-Japan, but that is to be expected with anything coming out of China....
My Country, My Parents (我和我的父辈) is a Chinese propaganda film. If you bear that in mind, it's actually somewhat enjoyable to watch. It is composed of several unrelated unrelated short stories combined into one feature length film, taking place in the past, present, and future. Each story focuses on an individual time period or event in red China's history, which is of particular interest...
As far as I can tell, this movie was supposed to paint uncle Adolf as a goof. It failed. The premise of the movie is that the austrian painter wakes up in modern day Germany. At first he doesn't understand what is going on, but eventually he realizes what has happened. The rest of the film centers around a downtrodden German guy making a documentary about the man who pretends to be Hitler, and the...
This K-Drama has a main focus on a love story, which shouldn't surprise you, but neither is it disappointing. Where it stands apart from others is the interesting setting of back-and-forth between North and South Korea, and its portrayal of life in the North in particular, which was particularly fascinating, if not necessarily accurate. The suspense, romance, and humour are well balanced throughout,...
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