Although the current lineup of Best Animated Feature nominees isn’t nearly as impressive as last year’s, I still took time out of my busy...

Ray Harryhausen, the undisputed king of stop-motion animation, often spoke of himself as an actor; his puppets were merely the medium...

After months of procrastination, I finally had the opportunity (thanks to an unexpectedly short workday) to pop in my Blu-ray copy of...

I’ve been in love with the concept of the Suicide Squad ever since I saw the “Task Force X” episode of Justice League...

Picked up a copy of Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, DC’s latest direct-to-video animated feature. I have fond memories of watching the...

I am currently subscribed to multiple streaming services that provide access to nearly unlimited movies. Thousands of long unavailable...

Went to Village East Cinema to see an anime called Haikara-san: Here Comes Miss Modern. Sappy romances are a definite guilty pleasure of...

Watched Fullmetal Alchemist on Netflix. Despite numerous warning signs (chiefly the fact that it skipped American theaters entirely,...

I went into Pitch Black with zero expectations, and, like many others, was pleasantly surprised to discover a legitimately intelligent,...

The Collection has a great ending. Like Jee-woon Kim’s gleefully gritty I Saw the Devil, it pushes the viewer uncomfortably close to the...

Black River One of Masaki Kobayashi’s many scathing statements on the sad state of Japan following the American military’s occupation,...

Produced earlier in the same year that saw the release of Hara-Kiri–the director’s scathing, blood soaked indictment of the popular,...

In his final film, director Kenji Mizoguchi makes his most powerful statement on his favorite theme: the suffering of women in Japanese...

Yesterday, I watched Shochiku’s Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell, a haunting, cynical, and brutally honest examination of human behavior–and...

The flight is far from uneventful. Blood-red clouds envelop the plane. Seemingly suicidal birds smash themselves against the windows by...

Len Wiseman can now sleep a bit more easily, secure in the knowledge that he is no longer responsible for the worst Die Hard movie ever...

Unremarkable. That’s it. That one word sums up my feelings toward Silent Hill: Revelation. Utterly unremarkable. It’s almost remarkable...

I’ll give Paul W.S. Anderson this much: he’s made the best-looking film of his career. From the opening sequence—an explosive action...

It opens with vacation footage. Three stereotypical American tourists do stereotypical American tourist-y things, skipping and laughing...

Battleship is a fantastic romantic comedy. It throws together all the classic genre ingredients: the handsome, compassionate, but...