For a film filled with piles of dead bodies, generational family trauma, and a general bad-luck vibe, David Leitch’s Bullet Train lacks any sense of authentici...
Nine years into its existence, A24—the once-indie production and distribution label behind modern greats like Under the Skin (2013), Moonlight (2016), and Uncu...
The best word to describe Unrest is "clever." It isn't on the level of the artisans and thinkers it lovingly portrays—all the graphers (geo, carto, photo) and ...
Director Masaaki Yuasa and screenwriter Akiko Nogi's adaptation of Hideo Furukawa's novel The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters finishes with a couple scr...
Santoshi Harada (Jirô Satô) has a plan. It concerns a three-million-yen reward for helping capture the infamous serial killer known as "No-Name" (Hiroya Shimiz...
The cost of fame sits in the living room wondering aloud whether dad will be home for Christmas. Why these two young boys' voices have been deepened to sound l...
I'm not saying you couldn't want to pivot careers from photo-compositor to writer, but to make it seem like a) the former is just a matter of loosely using the...
The Huang family and Pili International Multimedia are back on the big screen, two decades since their feature debut Legend of the Sacred Stone, and if the end...
There's some delicate subject matter at the heart of Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' Sissy. It's unavoidable when you're spring-boarding from an objectively trag...
Amidst all the high-concept computer-programming speak and moral / ethical implications surrounding the creation of artificial life, the smartest line of dialo...
