Movie Reviews

Movie Digest Ripples of Life (永安镇故事集) is a Chinese-origin movie that hit the theater screens for its viewers on the 14th of July, 2021. Headed under the unique direction of Wei Shun Jun, the film concerns a group of individuals who come together to make a movie. Upon meeting, uncertain disagreements begin to build up. […][...]

Movie Digest In the 1990s, Xiaoxian lives in a mountainous village in Chongqing, China, with her parents and three younger sisters. Her mother is in her late 30s and expecting her fifth kid since Xiaoxian’s grandma, and her father prefers a male child. In Xiaoxian’s memories, two births and three deaths occur in a single […][...]

Movie Digest Yang Guo, a teenager who lives with her aunt, is in a pickle after witnessing her friend’s accident. The girl gradually obtained the nebulous consciousness of a woman during the summer, learning to face life, face herself, and grow up as she struggled to flee the small city. The Feel-Good Part Fantastic teenage […][...]

Movie Digest Xiao Xiang is a spoiled second-generation rich child who loses his memory due to a wingsuit flying accident. He crashes and lands near a canal outside Zhou Donghai’s bathhouse. Zhou Donghai once owned the famous Donghai bathhouse that is now a rundown. Xing has plans to convert Donghai’s hometown into a resort. So, […][...]

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Movie Digest The Sacrifice is a Chinese war drama film that was released in 2020. The timeline of the movie is 1953 when Korean War was at its final stage. The film largely focuses on the events at the last stage of the war when The Battle of Kumsong was launched by The People’s Volunteer […][...]

Movie Digest Zhou Quan is a professional assassin. Chen Xiao Meng is a failing actor who is about to get kicked out of his apartment. Chen and Zhou cross paths in a sauna. Zhou trips and heads his hurt in the sauna, causing him amnesia. Chen sees an opportunity to start over and swiftly switches […][...]

Movie Digest A Chinese film directed by Guo Tingbo, the movie revolves around three young couples of different eras, provinces, and different occupations. The three couples have to undergo a “Premarital examination” to get married. The three stories are interdependent yet independent. The first story is about a young, happy-go-lucky man from a small town […][...]

Movie Digest The history told in this film, is set in the Changjin Lake combat during the second phase of the war between the US and North Korea. In North Korea during the 1950s, the Chinese People’s Volunteers went to fight in exceedingly chilly and hostile terrain. The Eastern Front combat forces pursued and killed […][...]

Movie Digest Luo Zhi is a studious, proud, and lonely girl who secretly fell in love with Sheng Huai Nan, a childhood friend who doesn’t seem to remember her for a long time. After graduating from high school Luo Zhi decides to forget her first crush and move on, but fates play with her heart […][...]