"Put a gun in your hand, not a single bullet wasted. All bullseyes."
I like to think that when John Woo was in the creative process of Hard Boiled, he must have thought: "Three-act narrative structure? Screw that shit. I will invent a three-shootout set piece structure instead!", and went ahead with that genius concept to create the greatest and purest action film of all time. It feels like he got in his head the idea of these three locations…
RIP BÉLA TARR (1955-2026)
"My mother's the sea. My father's the earth. My name is tango!"
I fondly remember discovering Béla Tarr and Sátántangó as a natural step in my journey as a cinephile, back when I fell in love with Andrei Tarkovsky's filmography, defined by his trademark long tracking shots, slow pacing, philosophical themes and contemplative approach, and attempted to find something similar to that after exhausting all of his works. I tried searching online, as well as following…
"You might be the toughest person I've ever met. Ranking updated. You're #1!"
Apparently, I watched the original Baby Assassins film almost four years ago and, back then, it seemed to me like just another one among the hundreds of imitations that spawned after the success of the John Wick series, but I think I had a decently enough time with it and then, almost forgot about it for years. Flash forward to present day, just a couple of weeks…
"This is the story of how my town, Salem, lost its motherfucking mind."
On paper, this should be just the type of film that I don't enjoy watching at all, considering its themes of social media, woke and cancel culture, social justice, toxic feminism, somewhat forced diversity and Gen Z trends. However, if I had to give a free pass to one of these, it would clearly go to Assassination Nation, as I believe no one does this approach to…
"I'm a virgin. A virgin but a whore."
I guess that the day they gave the greenlight to this film went like this:
Place: Nikkatsu's Production Studio
Nikkatsu Executive #1
Good morning Mr. Sono! How are you today?
*Sono enters the meeting and sits. Then he lights up a cigarette*
Sion Sono
Not bad.
Nikkatsu Executive #2
The reason why we have summoned you here today is because we want to produce your next feature film.
*Sono takes a long…
The cinematic equivalent of a Sono Sion Greatest Hits Album.
✅ A character called Shin who goes to a new city...
(Hazard)
✅ ...and joins a Fuck Bombers-like insane guerrilla filmmaking crew
(Why Don't You Play In Hell?)
✅ A group of crazy lesbian schoolgirls in an all-girls school...
(Tag & Antiporno)
✅ ...who cheerfully like to play suicidal games
(Suicide Club & Noriko's Dinner Table)
✅ A deranged serial killer plot with detailed steps on "how to make people invisible"
(Coldfish…
