Monthly Archives: June 2025

Review: Love in the Big City

Posted on June 11, 2025 by philipbrasor

Though it’s the usual stylish froth you would expect from a mainstream Korean movie featuring two of the country’s most popular stars, Love in the Big City manages to make a timely statement about the state of affairs for young … Continue reading →

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Review: Thelma

Posted on June 6, 2025 by philipbrasor

Though the central dilemma posed by this action film should be significant for Japanese viewers—an elderly woman is scammed out of a large amount of money by a telephone caller pretending to represent her grandson, who the caller says has … Continue reading →

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Review: MaXXXine

Posted on June 5, 2025 by philipbrasor

Director Ti West and his acting collaborator, Mia Goth, have managed to accrue enough hip cachet with their porn/slasher hybrid trilogy to attract a higher class of supporting cast: Kevin Bacon, Giancarlo Esposito, Elizabeth Debicki, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Monaghan, and … Continue reading →

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Review: We Live in Time

Posted on June 4, 2025 by philipbrasor

The prerogatives of the romantic tragedy get a solid workout in this over-ambitious tale of a young heterosexual couple trying to have a child as the female partner struggles with cancer. The first thing that points up director John Crowley’s … Continue reading →

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Media watch: Koreans reconsider unwed parenthood

Posted on June 1, 2025 by philipbrasor

Last Friday, the Japanese Diet took up the issue of separate names for married couples for the first time in 28 years. Though the debate about bessei—allowing partners who wed to retain their individual birth surnames rather than forcing them … Continue reading →

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