Jam (Sleep) (2023)
Pandora (2016)
Dang nan ren lian ai shi (Man In Love) (2021)
Nowhere (2023)
Godzilla x Kong The New Empire (2024)
The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)
My Dearest Assassin (2026) ///
Pandora (2016) Brief backgrounds to local workers and corrupt management before full throttle disaster mode kicks in as blast in nuclear power plant threatens to melt down and contaminated country. Cue chiseled heroics, expansive visuals and exhausting emotion, pitched at full throttle that never lets up.
Dang nan ren lian ai shi (Man In Love) (2021) Gritty design informs involving melodrama that benefits from easy chemistry between volatile debt enforcer Roy Chiu and caustically hopeful Wei-Ning Hsu, her future dreams colliding in a relationship bound for tragedy. Despite insistent score, humour adds to embracing emotions.
Nowhere (2023) Dystopian near future sees heavily pregnant Anna Castillo escape brutal regime crackdown on families, only to be trapped alone in cargo container in middle of ocean. Enclosed dynamics and physical lead provide immediate involvement, yet lack of dramatics resonance softens impact.
Godzilla x Kong The New Empire (2024) Gloss of expansive, saturate imagery conjures hyper-real backdrop for super-sized monsters to cause destruction above and below earth in battle with similarly fantasy creatures. Token humans struggle for tired laughs amid narrative lines somehow both simplistic and confusing.
The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) Solid western drama delivered with austere compassion and anchored by Vicky Krieps' persevering frontier survivor, facing dangers of remote farm and arbitrary violence when partner Viggo Mortensen feels obliged to leave and fight in Civil War. Non-linear, fractured structure lessens impact.
Lueat Rak Nakkha (My Dearest Assassin) (2026) Disposable setup provides for increasingly violent thrills as child pursed for rare blood type is shielded by gang of assassins and grows to be revenge-fueled Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul when man who killed her parents reemerges. Attraction for Tor Thanapob Leeratanakachorn proves minor distraction.
