April 11, 2019

Shaolin Soccer

I wasn’’t able to take notes during Shaolin Soccer. It’s so ridiculously simple and funny, I threw up my hands, dropped my pen, sat back, and […]
April 11, 2019

Kamome Diner

Though I review lots of samurai films where violence is a natural part of the proceedings, I admit to enjoying just about everything if it’s done […]
April 11, 2019

Avalon

Mamoru Oshii must be a magician, for only a magician could use Japanese digital wizardry in a bleak, rubble-strewn Polish cityscape with an all-Polish cast to […]
April 11, 2019

Arigami

As TS Eliot once said, “When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost – and will produce its richest […]