[The following post contains MAJOR SPOILERS and a whole lot of FANBOY WHINING; consider yourself warned!] The Rise of Skywalker improves...

Now that the dust from the holiday season has settled, I’d like to give the old year a proper sendoff. Rather than compiling a generic...

The taciturn remnant of a near-extinct tribe of warriors that prefers to work alone, but nevertheless inadvertently assembles a makeshift...

The Mandalorian represents everything that I love about Star Wars. From the shadowy hallways of Jabba the Hutt’s palace to the bustling...

[SPOILERS BELOW! You have been warned.] I know it’s faithful to the source material, but Muschietti really shouldn’t have brought back...

Not to get excessively sentimental or philosophical, but I had a rather profound epiphany today—triggered by, of all things, a video...

[Yes, I did endure this cinematic atrocity so that you wouldn’t have to. You’re welcome.] Furry. Obviously. Vore. Perpetrated during...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; you have been warned!] Well, to quote the late Orson Krennic: “We were on the verge of...

My initial review of Tora-san was already a bit too bloated and unfocused for my standards, but I simply had to rectify my failure to...

I’ve decided to revisit my House of Bamboo review because I somehow forgot to mention that it features one of the most realistically...

Following Rutger Hauer’s death earlier this year, I bought several of his more obscure films, and tonight, I finally got around to...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Looper is a great science fiction film because it uses time travel as a prop rather than...

Nowadays, Wait Until Dark is seldom ranked among the best thrillers ever made, even though it absolutely earns a spot on such a list....

“Tokyo Stories”, Japan Society’s special showcase of Japanese movies made by foreigners, has entered its final weekend. Despite my...

[The following review contains minor SPOILERS; you have been warned!] Knives Out is about as far from a conventional murder mystery as...

There are plenty of delicious morsels to savor in Frozen, Disney’s latest animated offering: the heartwarming central theme, which argues...

Frozen 2 is nothing short of miraculous. In many ways, its predecessor became a victim of its own success; after it smashed every...

Sometimes, trauma leaves behind a shadow—a specter that hounds you throughout the rest of your life. Deny it, avoid it, run from it all...

Over a decade before Parasite earned him near universal critical acclaim and made him top contender for Best Foreign Language Film at the...

The theme of Japan Society’s latest cinematic retrospective is a bit unorthodox: movies set in Tokyo… but shot by non-native directors....