April 11, 2019

Tokyo Sonata

Like the Academy Award winning Departures, this film is about the worldwide economic meltdown, and the trials and tribulations people go through that lose their jobs. […]
April 11, 2019

2046

(Chinese, 2004) Directed by Kar Wai Wong. Chow is a man who wants love, fears it (and thus pushes it away when it gets too close), gives up on it, then wants love again while knowing he will never truly grasp it. Instead, he sits in his room alone, writes his futuristic tales (which are clearly about himself), and beds stunningly beautiful women while the film’s mood grabs the audience, caresses us, and keeps us in its thrall.
April 11, 2019

Atomik CircusThe Return of James Battle

I was really looking forward to this French film. It was billed as an oddity that started as comedy and ended in a whole community being […]
April 11, 2019

Gozu

  Allow me to start by quoting a film reviewer named Stephen Hunter: “Takashi Miike is Japan’s answer to both David Lynch and John Waters. And […]