Rooney Mara eats a pie for ten Goddamn minutes. Okay, okay, I’m probably exaggerating. It’s probably not literally ten minutes of screen...

Thanks to Kanopy’s extensive selection of educational programming, I’ve recently become very interested in Butoh, a Japanese style of...

Logged on to Kanopy to watch Effacement, a semi-experimental documentary that explores the process of creating a Japanese Noh mask. While...

Saw Ghost Stories at IFC Center. It’s funny: by sheer coincidence, I just watched another British horror anthology film called The House...

Logged on to Kanopy to watch Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath, an anthology film that offers up three very different (but equally delectable)...

The original Harakiri (1962) is an uncompromisingly uncomfortable film, a scathing criticism of the fetishization of bushido in general...

The climactic set piece of Drug War, Chinese filmmaker Johnnie To’s action-packed police procedural, features an homage to, of all...

Dust and debris settle after a violent explosion. Nikkatsu regular Joe Shishido, dazed but more-or-less unharmed (perhaps his...

A trio of bank robbers seeks refuge at a ski lodge, but as the staff grows increasingly suspicious and the police close in, they flee...

It’s not too late to watch Christmas movies yet, right? Because I was still in the mood for some Yuletide cheer, and Netflix’s The...

One of the reasons I love Scorsese is that his films so gracefully express his faith without ever preaching at the viewer. This is what...

The Tokugawa Era. A time of peace. Bored samurai, unable to prove their honor in combat, instead follow the Way of Tea to climb the...

An influential businessman dies in a freak hunting accident. Single gunshot wound through the chest. No witnesses. One stubborn cop...

It’s Christmas Eve, and AMC is celebrating with a Rankin/Bass marathon. Of course, I’ve seen all of their animated specials dozens of...

[The following essay contains many spoilers. If you haven't seen The Haunting of Hill House, Drag Me to Hell, A Quiet Place, and/or...

In comic books and the media based upon them, the concept of a “multiverse” is ubiquitous to the point of being inescapable, dating back...

Caught a screening of The Jim Henson Legacy’s collection of the Muppet mastermind’s numerous commercials and experimental shorts over at...

My brother and I started watching Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return today. Digging it so far. The host segments haven’t quite...

Well, I powered through all ten thoroughly engrossing episodes of West World in just two days, leaving a gaping TV show shaped void in my...

Finally sitting down to binge HBO’s Westworld. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a piece on non-video game media that had such a firm...