Welcome to the annual Morning, Roo film retrospect. Tradition since 2014, this examination marks the tenth time I’ve compiled a yearly list of my favourite features. It has been an eclectic twelve months, serving a delectable assortment of both live-action and animated features, with more than a few surprises along the way. As ever, thisContinueContinue reading “Best Movies of 2023”
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Best Movies of 2022
Welcome to the timely Morning, Roo top ten films of the year. Annual since 2014, this is now the 9th edition of my yearly favourites list. Looking back at previous years, I wonder if I’d change any in retrospect. If I’m honest — perhaps. Tastes and interests evolve, some films age well and others don’t,ContinueContinue reading “Best Movies of 2022”
Best Movies of 2021
Welcome to my (much delayed) rundown of the best films from the year gone by! Earlier this year, I decided to take a look back at some of the movies the pandemic had initially stricken from my view, composing a list of my favourites from 2020. Now, half an hour before the Oscar’s begin (IContinueContinue reading “Best Movies of 2021”
Review: After Yang (2021)
Writer-director Kogonada follows his debut feature Columbus with a brooding sci-fi revolving an android named Yang. The titular character is a central part of the family — bought to act as an older brother figure to the young Mika, an adopted Chinese girl whom Yang teaches about her heritage. After malfunctioning in the opening credits,ContinueContinue reading “Review: After Yang (2021)”
Best Movies of 2020
Greetings, traveller. Ever since 2014, I have written on this blog about my favourite films of each year, but due to a certain global pandemic, the rundown has been missing since 2020. That year, my visits to the cinema were brisk and scattered. My viewing time was instead filled with ninety-five percent re-watches and comeContinueContinue reading “Best Movies of 2020”
Review: GANTZ:O (2016)
I have a soft spot for Gantz. The manga, for all its flaws and shortcomings, is a fantastic piece of entertainment. This film manages to capture a nugget of that, and while it is objectively lacking in detail and plot for audiences unfamiliar with the source material, it nonetheless presents some semblance of story andContinueContinue reading “Review: GANTZ:O (2016)”
Best Movies of 2019
In what seems like barely any time at all, the year (and the decade) has come to a close once again. Though film content has been a little absent from my blog in 2019, my perusing has remained nonetheless ample, and my year wouldn’t be complete without a rudimentary list, which has been unwavering forContinueContinue reading “Best Movies of 2019”
Movie Review: Alita: Battle Angel
Title: Alita: Battle Angel Director: Robert Rodriguez Screenplay: James Cameron, Laeta Kalogridis Starring: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein Released: Feb 2019 Fishing through a scrapheap, a nondescript cyborg head, enclosing a human brain, is found by a cybernetics doctor named Ido. With memories of his own deceased daughter still weighingContinueContinue reading “Movie Review: Alita: Battle Angel”
Best Movies of 2018
As another year comes to a close, another assemblage of lists, summaries, and rundowns begin to emerge. It has been half a decade since I began chronicling my favourites on this blog. Like most years, I wasn’t sure what to make of 2018 at first, but come the end, there are a number of filmsContinueContinue reading “Best Movies of 2018”
Movie Talk: Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985)
I discovered Kenji Miyazawa’s novella Night on the Galactic Railroad just a couple of years ago, following the release of Shunji Iwai’s film A Bride for Rip Van Winkle. In the film, the protagonists’ internet handle is Campanella, after one of the central characters in Miyazawa’s work. This is a curious choice. Nanami, the characterContinueContinue reading “Movie Talk: Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985)”
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