The Serpent’s Skin Review

There’s a lot of different ways movies end up on my watchlist. One of the rules I follow is that if a movie is loved by critics, but hated by the audience, I will do my best to watch it, because there must be something interesting about it. The rule worked again. 93% critics score versus 4.9 on IMDb is like catnip to me. (I don’t even really know what that means, but it is an idiom, so I’ll use it.)

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Blue Lock Review

What is this movie? I just went to see this because I had a free spot between two other things I needed to do in a small city in Finland. Yet, as I look at this, there’s only (as of this writing) 34 ratings of this on IMDb (one of them mine), so basically no-one has seen this. Although, in my experience, IMDb is not very popular in it’s native Japan.

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