Ventured out to Metrograph to catch a screening of Long Day’s Journey into Night. The initial setup of this Chinese cinematic tone poem...

Logged on to Kanopy to watch Vital, a Japanese love story with a dark twist (hardly shocking, considering it was directed by Shinya...

Went to Village East Cinema to catch a screening of Penguin Highway, one of the most unique animated coming-of-age stories I’ve ever...

Celebrated the completion of a pilot I’ve been working on with an Asian cinema double feature: The Fate of Lee Khan: The films of Chinese...

[The following review contains SPOILERS! You have been warned.] My recent binge of Harmony Korine’s filmography has been leading up to...

A married merchant falls in love with a courtesan. Meddling family members conspire to tear them apart. Unable to find happiness in...

Steve Ditko has developed a reputation within the comic book community as a bit of a curmudgeon, but nobody–fan, professional, or...

Continuing my long-overdue binge of Harmony Korine’s body of work, I ventured out to Metrograph for a late-night screening of Julien...

Caught a screening of Ramen Shop at IFC Center. Calling a movie “Ozu-esque” has become a film criticism cliche at this point, but the...

Us: Jordan Peele’s followup to Get Out (which I have not yet seen, though I intend to remedy that situation very soon) is satire in its...

Watched Robin and Marian. The works of Richard Lester tend to be pretty hit or miss: his collaborations with The Beatles are fantastic,...

Went to Metrograph to catch a screening of The Juniper Tree (a.k.a. the big screen debut of a pre-Sugarcubes Björk). This is one of those...

Like many other cinematic genres, the documentary has developed a familiar formula over time: talking heads intercut with archive...

Continued my long overdue Kanopy binge with a screening of Cops vs. Thugs. Director Kinji Fukasaku—who also helmed Battles Without Honor...

Logged on to Kanopy to watch A Letter to Momo, a beautiful animated fairytale about coping with loss. The eponymous correspondence is...

It’s common knowledge among cinephiles that Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs is, in fact, a complete ripoff of Ringo Lam’s City on...

While John Woo is undoubtedly the most famous “bullet ballet” choreographer among general audiences, the late Ringo Lam is arguably even...

[The following review contains SPOILERS for the entire How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. You have been warned.] DreamWorks’ How to Train...

I love Japanese cinema. I love stop motion animation. So you can imagine how delighted I was when Japan Society announced Tomoyasu...

Caught a spur-of-the-moment screening of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie at Metrograph. I’ve been trying to watch this Luis Bunuel...