Welcome to [small town name]! It’s almost [holiday], and the whole community is excited for [large event]! Unfortunately, the festivities...

Hulu’s Books of Blood is profoundly disappointing. While it borrows its title from the series of anthology novels penned by Clive Barker,...

David Byrne’s American Utopia perfectly encapsulates its creator’s quirky personality and artistic philosophy. Through his word salad...

I’ve been a huge fan of director Steve McQueen’s (no relation to the star of Bullitt and The Great Escape) minimalistic approach to...

Be a foreigner with very few friends in town. Stumble across a violent crime in progress. Immediately touch everything as you fruitlessly...

Hopper/Welles is a fascinating time capsule. In footage originally shot circa 1970 for The Other Side of the Wind, an unseen Orson Welles...

Tsai Ming-liang’s Days begins with a title card that reads, “The film is intentionally unsubtitled.” That’s somewhat intimidating, to say...

[WARNING: The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS!] Underwater begins with a long, lingering shot that slowly tracks across the...

Last night, I watched The Calming, my first digital screening of this year’s hybrid (part drive-in, part online) edition of the New York...

[WARNING: The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS for 13 Assassins, Skyfall, Django Unchained, and Avengers: Endgame.] What defines a...

Watched Rancho Notorious on the Criterion Channel. This Technicolor-drenched Old Hollywood cowboy picture should represent something of a...

Watched A Colt Is My Passport on the Criterion Channel. Directed by Takashi Nomura, this deliciously pulpy, noir-flavored yakuza thriller...

[Back in the summer of 2015, my brother and I visited Japan. While there, I sent our parents (almost) daily emails to keep them...

After an absence of nearly thirty years, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan make their triumphant return in Bill & Ted Face...

This year’s online edition of the New York Asian Film Festival has officially commenced! Unfortunately, the streaming service that the...

I swore to myself that I would never pay money to watch Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans. Alas, I discovered last night that it was...

Last night—hoping to recapture the thrills and chills of Shutter—I watched a Thai movie called Inhuman Kiss, a genre-bending roller...

Like many of Japan’s finest animated features (particularly those produced by Studio Ghibli), Okko’s Inn is so elegantly simple and...

[The following observations were originally posted to my Twitter account on August 22, 2020. However, as the character limit is no longer...

Yes, even Hong Kong’s venerable Shaw Brothers Studio tried to capitalize on the ninja craze of the 1980s. The very novelty of Five...