Barely minutes into ep 4 of Will It Snow for Christmas and am reminded as to why I loved what bits of it I've seen as it aired. Lee Kyung Hee's dramas always create these layers of emotions of an almost hothouse intensity - the plot is always secondary to bringing out whatever mood, relationships and emotional truth she wants to convey. This brief ( Read more... )

This is the latest in my series of "Dangermousie ranks all the kdramas she has ever seen" posts. I have seen over 70 kdramas and, being addicted to ranking, have decided to rank them all. (For previous posts go here.) Below the cut are dramas ranked 50-41: these are entertaining dramas worth a look: they are flawed but a nice time investment ( Read more... )

I am currently watching Sang-Doo, Let’s Go to School (Korean dorama with Rain) and Magic Ring (Taiwanese dorama with Joe Cheng).

I would classify both of them as entertaining but not great. Of the two, Sang-Doo is superior (though considering I am 10 eps into SD and only one into MR, this can change), with tighter script and less OTT acting. But ( Read more... )

Sang-Doo, Let's Go to School is wonderful. Heck, I have a nasty fever and I am still loving it. Sang Doo and Eun-hwan are such an OTP but I don't see it ever ending well, not with their baggage. The dorama is still funny (it has very funny bits) but it's getting darker and angstier and more romantic and that is how I like it. Ep 3 was what turned ( Read more... )

Saw Haven tonight. It was a uniformly uninspired movie which had no point whatsoever. It had so little point I can't even summarize it in any coherent fashion except to say it's all about a bunch of people living in Cayman Islands. I wish I had a ff button in the theater, but Orlando Bloom looked yummy. Since I went to see it for him (he's the only ( Read more... )

I have managed to get hooked on Sang Doo, let's go to school (gorgeously shot, angsty Rain, and nifty romance), It Started with a Kiss (hilarious, fluffy, and with an OTP that makes me SQUEE not to mention Zhi Shu is my fictional crush) AND Love Contract (beautiful blues, feeling of a grown-up fairy-tale, Ariel Lin at her most adorable and Mike He ( Read more... )

I've had a day where I tried out a lot of doramas.

I've watched the beginning of Sassy Girl Chun-Hyang which seems funny (and the heroine is spunky and the hero is cool) but which I will watch properly later.

I've watched the first half of ep 10 of Tokyo Juliet which was excellent. ( spoilers for ep 10 )

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Saw Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna for a second time yesterday, with aliterati. Knowing the story made the viewing experience quite different. I found Rhea and Rishi a lot more at fault and Dev and Maya nicer. Hmmmm ( Read more... )

Has anyone on my flist read the Dumas novel The Fencing Master? It's a minor novel of Dumas but it was translated into Russian (which is how I read it) because it dealt with The Decembrists. I have a hankering to reread it. The narrator, the fencing master, is hired on as a teacher in Russia, where he meets and befriends Pauline, a modiste at a ( Read more... )