Movie Reviews
Like “The Armstrong Lie”, it has been for a while since I saw this movie. I went to see this movie at AFI Fest in Los Angeles. It is a beautiful family story. Ryota Nonomiya (Masaharu Fukuyama) is a successful businessman driven by money and fame. He is a hard working (typical) Japanese man. He seems […]
It has been for a while since I saw this movie. I have been extremely busy, and I neglected to up-date my web page… Lance Armstrong was my hero when he was winning Tour de France. During Tour de France, the first thing I did every morning was to open the Sport Page of LA […]
K2 is an extension of the northwestern Himalayan Mountain range and is located between Pakistan and China. It is known to be the second most murderous mountain in the world, the fatality rate is one in four climbers. There are only about 300 climbers who have reached the summit, and have seen the view from […]
It is a fantastic movie. Woody Allen has made another excellent movie with Cate Blanchett’s exceptional acting. Blanchett is Jasmine. All of casts are so special, Alec Baldwin as her husband, Hal, Sally Hawkins as Jasmine’s sister, Ginger, Bobby Cannavale as Ginger’s fiancé, Luis C. K. as Al, Ginger’s lover, Andrew Dice Clay as Augie, Ginger’s […]
This movie tells us about an untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. So they are top backup singers. Yes, their lives are mostly behind the scene, but there are many many more singers who would like to be in their positions. Bruce Springsteen, […]
It is a real “Must See” movie. The director is Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig is on the main character “Frances”. It is all about Frances, it means Greta Gerwig’s amazing acting. I understand now Baumbach and Gerwig are a couple, and they co-produced this movie. They wanted to film this movie in their familiar […]
It is an amazing movie. True! This film is an adventure drama, like Tom Sawyer, with two 14-year boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and his friend, Neckbone (Janob Lofland), who have their secret hide-away place in a small island in Mississippi, and one day find the interesting man named Mud (Matthew McConaughey) living in their secret […]
I have not seen Hayao Miyazaki’s animation movies for a while, and was very excited to see it. Yes, it was much more than I expected. I am still feeling home sick, and nostalgie. The movie is set in Yokohama, a port town, in 1963, when Japan was growing, and the people looked forward for […]
When I saw the names in the cast (Javier Bardem and Ben Affleck) of “To The Wonder” I thought I can’t miss this movie. Well.. I was wrong. It has lots of beautiful scenes, but I don’t think it is a movie. I felt as if I was watching many segments of Calvin Klein’s commercials. […]
It is truly a beautiful movie, especially scenes in French Riviera and colorful and stylish costumes for actresses. The costumes may not be exactly period designs, but I loved them! “Renoir”, directed by Gilles Bourdos, is set in 1915 during WWI. The drama is about the story around a famous impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and […]