After months of putting it off, I finally got around to watching Boiling Point, the second film by “Beat” Takeshi Kitano. While the...

I’ve decided to take a break from theatrical releases this weekend in order to catch up on my home video consumption. On today’s menu:...

Saw Amiko, my third and final Japan Cuts screening. Twenty-year-old(!) director Yoko Yamanaka, who was on hand to introduce the film,...

Just got back in from my second Japan Cuts screening: Tremble All You Want, a fascinating film that begins as a lighthearted, whimsical...

After spending most of the day enjoying some much-needed R&R (having worked the entire week while battling an infuriatingly persistent...

Just got back in from my final Japan Cuts screening. This one wasn’t a recent production, but it was making its North American debut in...

The Japan Cuts film festival wraps up this weekend, and today, I attended the penultimate screening of my five-ticket bundle: Shippu...

Saw Haruneko, the the last of the three kinda, sorta cat-themed movies screened at the Japan Cuts festival. The program described it as...

Just got home from Neko Atsume House, the second feature of my Japan Cuts experience. Based on, of all things, a mobile phone app, the...

Attended my first screening of Japan Cuts, Japan Society’s annual showcase of recent releases from the Land of the Rising Sun. The film...

How can I describe Justice League without sounding excessively cynical or bitter? Well, while it’s not nearly as good as Wonder Woman, it...

From the nonlinear narrative structure of Memento to the playfully unconventional use of intercutting in Inception, Christopher Nolan has...

From the “rom-zom-com” antics of Shaun of the Dead to the comparatively somber and self-reflective The World’s End, Edgar Wright has...

Sometimes, you want juicy, tender filet mignon. Other days, you’re in the mood for a greasy hamburger. Today, I found myself craving some...

Went and saw Logan, Hugh Jackman’s farewell to Wolverine after over a decade-and-a-half of playing the character—and what a sendoff it...

“All these years, I thought you were Wendigo. But you’re just another white man.” That single line of dialogue, spoken by Johnny Depp’s...

Last night, Jean Dujardin took home the Best Actor Oscar for his work as George Valentin in The Artist—an almost entirely silent role....

In any good story, the protagonist must face and overcome a number of challenges: his fellow man, society, even the darkness within. But...

“Why not just stay dead?” As I sat through my second viewing of Skyfall earlier this afternoon, that single line of dialogue leaped off...

I knew that The Avengers would inevitably change how both the moviegoing public and Big Executives perceived the superhero sub-genre; no...