The jidaigeki genre has become increasingly rare in recent years, even in its native country. Revisionist, postmodern, cynical twists on...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] During his promotional tour for The Suicide Squad, John Cena...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The pre-credit sequence of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is more...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] While digesting The Green Knight's stylistic and structural...

Following an appropriately surreal and dreamlike prologue, David Lowery’s The Green Knight opens on a surprisingly mundane note: an image...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Netflix’s recent three-part adaptation of R. L. Stine's Fear Street novel...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] After a yearlong absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the MCU has...

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...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS! And also a couple of CUSS WORDS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Zeus is a zombie king. He is...

In recent years, Western theatrical animation has shifted almost entirely to computer-generated imagery, essentially abandoning...

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”...

From Wayne Campbell to Austin Powers to Shrek, Mike Myers has a talent for creating cultural icons. As undeniably influential as those...

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