For my fifth Japan Cuts screening of 2019, I decided to be adventurous and see Experimental Spotlight: Palm of the Hand Cinema, an...

Japan Cuts has reached its penultimate day, and although I’m terribly exhausted following a long week at work, I still intend to sample...

For my third Japan Cuts screening of 2019, I saw Samurai Shifters, a period comedy about a clan that is forced to repeatedly relocate...

Just got back in from my second Japan Cuts screening, Ten Years Japan—a significantly more somber and thematically dense affair than the...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Japan Cuts, my favorite annual film festival, has officially commenced! For my first screening,...

Shaw Brothers martial arts. Hammer horror. Two delicious cinematic flavors—but do they still taste great together? The Legend of the 7...

Lupin the Third is beloved both in its native Japan and abroad, but I consider myself to be a casual fan of the series at best. Between...

Caught an early morning screening of The Farewell at Angelika Film Center. While stories about death tend to be fairly somber affairs...

Went to Metrograph to catch a screening of Arrow’s gorgeous restoration of Takashi Miike’s Audition. This J-horror masterpiece...

[The following review contains SPOILERS for Spider-Man: Far From Home, Avengers: Endgame, and several other MCU films. YOU HAVE BEEN...

Well, as of today, the New York Public Library has officially severed ties with Kanopy, my favorite streaming service. Sadly, like...

Let’s make one thing crystal clear right off the bat: Toy Story 3 provided the perfect conclusion to Pixar’s flagship franchise, neatly...

Half-watched Child’s Play 2 on the telly this morning. Never really got into the series, but this particular installment, at least, is...

At my brother’s insistence, I watched Top Secret! for the first time. It features exactly what you want from a Zucker, Abrahams and...

Ever since I experienced the glorious avant-garde weirdness of El Topo a few years back, I’ve been trying to see The Holy Mountain,...

The thematic ambitions of Rocketman are neatly and brilliantly established within the first three minutes of its running time, when Elton...

Now that I’ve had time to more fully digest the underlying subtleties of The Image You Missed, I’ve come to appreciate its perfectly...

Went to Metrograph to catch a screening of The Image You Missed, a personal cinematic essay in which director Donal Foreman combs through...

In recent years, the phrase “fan service” seems to have developed a negative connotation in the realm of film criticism… and honestly, I...

Coming-of-age comedies have a bad habit of recycling John Hughes tropes, with the raunchiness of the jokes providing the only significant...