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Review: Hopper/Welles

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

Review: Days

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

Review: Underwater

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

Review: The Calming

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...

Review: Rancho Notorious

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

Review: A Colt Is My Passport

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

Emails from Japan

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

Review: Bill & Ted Face the Music

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

Review: Detention

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

Review: Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans

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...

Review: Inhuman Kiss

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

Review: Okko's Inn

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

Further Thoughts on Ghost of Tsushima

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

Review: Five Elements Ninjas

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

Review - Sahdowrun: Hong Kong

[ The following observations were originally posted to Twitter on May 13, 2020. The text has been reproduced here with minor revisions...

Revisiting Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Tonight, I revisited Rugrats in Paris: The Movie for the first time in… oh, probably decades. Here are a few random, disconnected...

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