Just got back in from a late screening of King Hu’s Legend of the Mountain (newly restored by Kino Lorber) at Metrograph. Hu is best...

I was so impressed by The Seven-Per-Cent Solution that I decided to pop in another Nicholas Meyer film that’s been collecting dust on my...

Well, my internet is currently out, and since it’s far too late and cold to go prancing about the city, I decided to work through my...

Well, I’ve finally encountered a DVD more cursed than my grainy, badly-cropped transfer of Zatoichi vs. Flying Guillotine: 21st Century...

Caught a screening of Elegant Beast at Japan Society. They’re showing it as part of a retrospective celebrating the collaborations...

Popped in another DVD from my six-disc Sonny Chiba set: Bullet Train, a superbly-crafted Japanese take on the classic disaster movie...

Finally got around to watching yet another hard-to-find DVD I bought a while back: Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon, part of a six-disc Sonny...

Signed up for a free trial of Shudder specifically to watch Noroi: The Curse, a twisted horror mockumentary from Koji Shiraishi, the...

I’m a huge fan of martial arts movies that feature both Chinese and Japanese combatants: Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman, Master...

The recent Ghost in the Shell remake reignited my desire to seek out more of famed anime director Mamoru Oshii’s work, particularly...

I don’t remember where I first read about Sauna, but I immediately knew I had to see it. After all, it combines two of my favorite...

Watched another DVD I salvaged from the bottom of a bargain bin years ago and promptly forgot about: G.I. Samurai, a zany late ‘70s...

I finally got around to watching Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress, an out-of-print animated masterpiece that’s been collecting dust on my...

While digging through my DVD collection back in Florida, I managed to unearth one of the weirdest (and possibly most cursed; I found it...

Earlier this week, while browsing Criterion’s website, I found out that Japan Society would be hosting a retrospective dedicated to the...

Earlier this week–Wednesday, I think–I somewhat impulsively pre-ordered tickets for tonight’s midnight screening of Sadako vs. Kayako (or...

Dropped by IFC Center to catch Ocean Waves, a lesser known Ghibli production that, like Only Yesterday, never made its way to the U.S....

Stan Lee is far from the only creative genius we lost this year; Isao Takahata passed away in April, and tonight, Japan Society—with some...

On the way back into the city from visiting family for Thanksgiving, I decided to pay my respects to the late, great Stan Lee by finally...

Can you believe that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus recently celebrated its 200th birthday? To commemorate the...