Last summer, my brother and I visited Japan, and as we explored the streets, skyscrapers, parks, and temples around Tokyo, we saw this...

I’ve only been back in New York for a few hours, and I’m already hitting my usual haunts. How could I possibly turn in early when...

Dragged myself out of bed this morning and made my way over to the Film Forum (the same venue where I saw Chimes At Midnight earlier this...

Last night, I found out that an animated film I’ve been looking forward to for months was quietly released on Friday, to a criminally...

Today, I once again headed over to Japan Society for the final double feature in its science fiction retrospective: Blue Christmas and...

Today, I returned to Japan Society (where I saw Blind Woman’s Curse) to enjoy another retrospective. This time, rather than featuring the...

Today marks the end of Japan Society’s Kazuo Miyagawa retrospective, and I simply couldn’t resist squeezing in one last double feature...

Returned to Japan Society (which has entered the second week of its retrospective celebrating the work of cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa)...

Japan Society’s film department is hosting another retrospective, this time celebrating the illustrious career of Kazuo Miyagawa, one of...

I was in the mood for something completely different, so I popped in my copy of Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray release of The Adventures of...

Watched Fire and Ice on Kanopy. How in God’s name did I reach adulthood without having experienced this sword-and-sorcery masterpiece?...

Watched Noriko’s Dinner Table on Fandor and… well, quite frankly, I don’t know where to start. In terms of the themes it explores (the...

Celebrated the successful completion of another job with a screening of The Great Silence at Film Forum (even though it doesn’t support...

Despite Fandor’s extensive library of bonafide classics (including a selection of Werner Herzog’s early filmography, which I really need...

One more movie before bed: Tower, a nonfiction film about the 1966 UT clock tower shooting—an event that also inspired Harry Chapin’s...

Well, I forgot that today was Easter Sunday until it was too late to make any solid plans, so instead of treating myself to a fancy...

While I generally prefer physical media, online streaming services can be useful on occasion. For example, I was browsing Fandor this...

I have a bad habit of not actually watching the DVDs and Blu-rays that I buy. Case in point: I purchased the first season of the Zatoichi...

Watched JSA: Joint Security Area on Kanopy, a streaming service that comes free with every New York Public Library card. What begins as a...

Braved the rain and snow to catch a screening of Oh Lucy!, a movie about a middle-aged Japanese office worker that embarks on a journey...