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Continue reading →: The Enemy Within – Ego, Identity, and the Illusion of Freedom in Guy Ritchie’s Revolver (2005)Revolver, Guy Ritchie’s 2005 film presents itself as a crime thriller, filled with gangsters, casinos, money, revenge, manipulation, and elaborate schemes, but beneath that familiar surface lies something far stranger. It uses the language of the gangster film to explore something much more abstract about invisible forces that govern us.…
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Continue reading →: Learning to Love Beyond the Script – Jatuh Cinta Seperti di Film-Film (2023)
Directed by Yandy Laurens, the film begins with a premise that feels deceptively familiar: a reconnection between two people, a quiet possibility of love, and the fragile hope that something meaningful might emerge from it. Just that, it is revealed that it is not interested in telling a conventional love…
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Continue reading →: Embracing Hobbies: Board Games, Movies, and MoreHi there! I’m Maris — a new voice here, and I’m so excited to share this space with you. I write about the things that feel real and personal to me: my thoughts, my experiences navigating acne-prone skin, and the little joys I find in hobbies like board games and…
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Continue reading →: In the Mood for Love -Distance Between Two HeartbeatsIn the Mood for Love is a story about the lives we don’t live, the words we don’t say, and the feelings we carry quietly across time. It understands that some emotions become more profound precisely because they remain unresolved.
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Continue reading →: Porcelain Nightmares: The Fragile Horror of Incident in a GhostlandSome horror films made to be frighten, and some others are horror films that hurt. Pascal Laugier’s Incident in a Ghostland belongs to the latter category — a film that doesn’t simply ask you to look at fear but to inhabit it, to sit inside its claustrophobic silence and feel…
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Continue reading →: Review – Sleep (2023) – A Claustrophobic Descent into Marital HorrorSleep (2023) is a debut film by Jason Yu that was premiered at the 2023 Cannes Critics’ Week and starring Jung Yu-mi and the late Lee Sun-kyun, Sleep as it title is using an ordinary element in daily human life to create unnerving psychological horror film. Not many as I…
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Continue reading →: Hanamikoji – In Favor of the GeishasHanamikoji was set in Hanamikoji, a famed geisha street in Kyoto. The geishas are masters of entertainment that greatly respected and adored. Players role are the customer that try to earn the favor of the geishas. The favor itself can be achieved by giving the geishas more of each their…
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Continue reading →: It’s A Wonderful World – An Expansion that Went Further and BeyondThe empires has grow, now there will be 7 empires that compete in hegemony in this dystopian future. Science rapidly grow but society now know corruption. Do you have the knowledge to fight over once again to achieve hegemony? The expansion mainly contains cards that focus on elevating the experience…
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Continue reading →: Ginkgopolis – Building Your Dream Above EveryoneDo you dream to be an architect in an ever growing city?Do you want build a great engine in a board game?Will you able to tackle anyone in your way?If you say yes, then this is might be a perfect game for you. In Ginkgopolis you’re taking a role of…
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Continue reading →: Trambahn – Competition in Expanding TramwayTrambahn takes place in Munich when tramways are expanding, and you as one of the head of 2 local major tramway company trying to achieve victory by seizing the contract for yourself. In order to do that, you must prove yourself worthy to the city board by scoring the highest…

