[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] For approximately ninety percent of its ( extremely brief)...

I’ll say this for Torso : it wastes little time; within the first ten seconds of the opening credits, a woman has already removed her...

Like many a follow-up to a bona fide cult classic, Tokyo: The Last War (sequel to Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis ) is widely considered to...

Hit Man features a multitude of compelling themes, meditating on the conflict between public and private personae, the subjective nature...

Master Gardner opens with the quintessential Paul Schrader image: a character in an otherwise empty room hunched over a writing desk,...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] I’m trying to remove the term “body horror” from my film criticism...

How to describe She Is Conann ? The film resists literalist readings, eschewing traditional narrative in favor of concocting a...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Near the conclusion of Isabel Sandoval’s quietly beautiful Lingua...

Prior to seeing DAN DA DAN: First Encounter —a special theatrical premiere event for Science SARU’s latest anime series, presented by...

Despite its apparent lack of narrative complexity, it’s difficult to properly classify Yong-ki Jeong’s The Ghost Station . Is it a...

Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond wastes little time. After treating the audience to approximately thirty seconds of Jeffrey Combs turning...

My grandfather was a lifelong musician. In his younger days, his polka band would perform in swanky New York nightclubs such as the...

Well, they’ve finally designed a web game that appeals specifically to my interests—and I am thoroughly addicted. Cine2Nerdle is...

The Tempest epitomizes my favorite flavor of Shakespeare adaptation: lean, revisionist, and minimalistic (a musical number or two...

Disco Elysium is a rare and precious gem indeed: a video game that utilizes the language of the medium to its full potential....

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus is innovative in the elegant simplicity of its style and structure. It’s not a traditional documentary, lacking...

The Greasy Strangler . Aggressively weird. Mostly dug its vibe (kinda reminded me of Frank Henenlotter’s work). Never want to see or...

Sam Raimi’s greatest strength as a director has always been his sincerity. Although there is certainly a degree of humor in his...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] For an otherwise typical summer blockbuster, Alien: Romulus has...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Never let the two lives touch. Trap is a film about identity....