ogradyfilm
Mar 4, 20191 min read
Review: A Letter to Momo
Logged on to Kanopy to watch A Letter to Momo, a beautiful animated fairytale about coping with loss. The eponymous correspondence is...
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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...
Alita: Battle Angel has traversed a long, winding, uphill road to reach the big screen. The project spent years languishing in...
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot is probably the most attention-grabbing title I’ve ever encountered. It makes several...
Let’s address the elephant in the room right off the bat: I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is an extremely bizarre title for an animated...
Caught my second ever screening of IFC Center’s annual Oscar Animated Shorts Showcase. Once again, this year’s nominees (with one major...
At its core, all of Chantal Akerman’s most renowned work is about observation. This is true of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080...
Free Solo is a fantastic documentary, both breathtakingly beautiful and heart-stoppingly harrowing; it’s an absolute sin that “Best...
Tonight, Metrograph continued its Hou Hsiao-hsien retrospective with a screening of Café Lumière, a film commissioned to commemorate the...
Werner Herzog: And so, Earth spins silently in its dark void, cold and indifferent to the parasites that have taken up residence on its...
Adult Version of Protagonist: And that's the story of the summer that changed our lives forever. Unfortunately, me and the guys kind of...
Recently, Rian Johnson has developed a reputation as the director that singlehandedly ruined Star Wars forever. And I think that’s...
Caught a screening of Three Times. True to its title, this immaculately-crafted Taiwanese anthology film is split into three episodes,...
[WARNING: The following review contains SPOILERS!] Despite the caustic critical reception it’s attracted, I think Glass is a perfectly...
Following this morning’s announcement of this year’s Oscar nominees, I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. I decided to...
Since it’s currently about sixteen degrees Fahrenheit outside, I decided to stay indoors and enjoy one of my Christmas gifts: Don’t...

