O'GRADY FILM

The marketing for Richard Donner’s 1978 adaptation of Superman proudly proclaimed that the film would convince audiences that “a man...

In Willy’s Wonderland, Nicolas Cage plays a badass, taciturn janitor forced to spend the night cleaning a Chuck E. Cheese style family...

Of all the documentaries comprising Japan Society’s “Cinema as Struggle: The Films of Kazuo Hara & Sachiko Kobayashi” retrospective, few...

Earlier this week, I watched Hong Sangsoo’s The Power of Kangwon Province via Lincoln Center’s virtual cinema, and while I enjoyed it, I...

The Many Faces of Chika—the only scripted drama ever produced by documentarians Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi—features a fascinating...

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 is as difficult to analyze as it is challenging to watch; this deeply personal documentary resides...

Watched Goodbye CP, which is currently screening as part of Japan Society’s latest online retrospective—a showcase of the...

To be completely honest, I hadn’t initially planned on watching Tokyo Paralympics: Festival of Love and Glory; if I had, I could have...

Watched The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine, my second online screening in Japan Society’s “Aim for the Best: Sports in Japanese Cinema”...

While I understood the necessity of the decision (considering the whole “ongoing global pandemic” thing), I was absolutely crushed when...

About Endlessness opens with an image of a pair of embracing lovers floating above a sea of gray clouds. In comparison with this moment...

My busy work schedule prevented me from catching At Eternity’s Gate during its initial theatrical run back in 2018. Fortunately, the film...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] On Saint Patrick’s Day, I watched Fatal Deviation—which proudly...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] It’s remarkable how changing a single ingredient can significantly...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Things change, Harold. Don't get nostalgic. Look to the future....

The Long Good Friday is the perfect anti-mystery story. The plot revolves around Harold Shand (played by Bob Hoskins at his brutish...

Imagine Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale. Now, replace most of the physical bloodshed with psychological warfare—a tense game of mental...

Mika Ninagawa began her career as a photographer, and that background is clearly evident in Sakuran, her directorial debut. Every frame...

On paper, the premise of Air Doll (an inflatable sex doll somehow develops sentience and proceeds to wander the streets of Tokyo) sounds...

For his latest mind-bending cinematic acid trip, Sion Sono couldn’t have chosen a more appropriate title than Red Post on Escher Street....