[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] I. Living Off the Corpse of the Old World Come on, Max. Tell me your...

Premise: Before embarking upon their legendary expedition to discover strange new worlds, the iconic crew of the Enterprise must conquer...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The first time I watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I felt...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] In a Violent Nature revolves around a novel enough premise: what if...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The opening scenes of Children of the Great Buddha don’t really...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Sentimental Idiot is a major departure from the other Hiroshi Shimizu...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Hiroshi Shimizu’s Tomorrow There Will Be Fine Weather is a...

Happy Mother’s Day! If you’re in the mood to celebrate the occasion with a movie screening, allow me to suggest Mikio Naruse’s No Blood...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WANRED!] Unlike Angel’s Egg and Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis, Toei’s Bounty...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] It’s tempting to reduce I Saw the TV Glow to its obvious stylistic...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] What I admire most about director Ryusuke Hamaguchi is the clarity...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Although the Criterion Channel’s description neglects to advertise...

When I previously wrote about benshi—the live narrators that would contextualize (and, on occasion, totally reinterpret) the silent...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Kenji Misumi’s Ken (or The Sword, if you prefer translated titles)...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Yotsuya Kaidan is Japan’s most popular and frequently adapted ghost...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] At times, Masahiro Shinoda’s Demon Pond feels like two different...

Perfect Days is a film about cherishing small pleasures. It’s about ordinary people living ordinary lives. It’s about the soothing...

Winchester ‘73 features an intriguing narrative gimmick. While the overarching plot is a bog-standard revenge thriller—with Jimmy...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (an extremely loose adaptation of a...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is all about the inexorable march...