Review: Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Feeling a bit under the weather today, so after running some errands, I decided to stay in and take it easy. Fortunately, I had a great...
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Feeling a bit under the weather today, so after running some errands, I decided to stay in and take it easy. Fortunately, I had a great...
Went to Metrograph for what should have been a showcase of animator Makoto Shinkai’s early shorts (including She and Her Cat, which I’ve...
Fantastic Planet reawakened my appetite for nontraditional animation, so today, I ventured out to Sunshine Cinema to see Loving Vincent,...
Work tomorrow doesn’t start until later in the afternoon. Decided to take advantage of this rare opportunity and watch Fantastic Planet...
For years, my brother has been begging me to see Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, and for years, I’ve managed to find one excuse or another to...
Just got home from a midnight screening of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (known as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door in its native Japan)...
Thanks to Sunshine Cinema, I’ve finally managed to see every Oscar-nominated animated feature, and I couldn’t be more satisfied with the...
In the process of searching for My Life as a Zucchini, I discovered an arthouse theater called Sunshine Cinema, and while it doesn’t...
Today, I ventured out to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas to see The Red Turtle, the first (to my knowledge, anyway) Studio Ghibli production to be...
Alien: Covenant was a pretty big disappointment. In trying to both build upon the themes he introduced in Prometheus and recapture the...
I’m the weirdo that actually likes Prometheus. Sure, it has its share of flaws—most notably its over-reliance on characters’ stupidity in...
In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus didn’t just steal fire for the early humans; he also created them, sculpting the clay figures...
To kick off the Holiday Season the right way, I logged on to Kanopy to watch Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, a decidedly darker spin on...
How’d I miss the news that these beauties had dropped? I stumbled across them while browsing the shelves at Midtown Comics to kill time...
Earlier today, IGN debuted a teaser poster for the upcoming theatrical film based on the Slender Man mythos. And honestly, judging it on...
So let me tell you about my day so far. Before I went to bed last night (by which I mean around 1:30 AM), I perused the MoviePass app to...
As I type this, it is sixteen degrees Fahrenheit outside (an improvement over the past few days, but a long way from the warm weather I...
Back in New York. Watched two in-flight movies on the way over: Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms - A beautiful animated fairytale...
Currently in Portland, Oregon for my annual trip with my college buddies. To kill time during the long plane ride over, I watched Neko...
Eager to make use of my MoviePass card before the service crashes and burns permanently, I ventured out to Metrograph to catch a...