In Kevin and Matthew McManus’ Redux Redux, Irene Kelly (Michaela McManus) vaults through an endless sequence of parallel realities, searching for a universe where her…
It’s been a while since we last saw Gore Verbinski. Definitely an idiosyncratic stylist, he found himself a real niche in the early 2000s with…
Luc Besson, famed French director of Léon: The Professional and The Fifth Element, returns from making the relatively obscure June and John (2025) to release…
As the Hong Kong film industry has been devoured by Mainland China, drawing its stars and directors away with the promise of big budgets and…
Film adaptations of video games can be a dicey proposition. Part of the issue lies in the elements getting lost in translation: the inherently immersive…
We don’t have many stars like Jason Statham left. If the ‘80s gave us a plethora of iconic tough guys, the ensuing decades have whittled…
Very few actors elevate low-budget action cinema like Milla Jovovich, who is front and center in all of the marketing of Brad Anderson’s latest genre…
Director Isao Yukisada is something of a chameleon. Having gotten his start as an assistant director for Shunji Iwai, with whom he worked on five…
The score of Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands is one of the first signals about its intended genre and reference points: with lush, orchestral strings overlaid by…
M3GAN is dead, long live Monkey. In 2022, Gerard Johnstone’s yassified murder doll injected new life into the January horror canon, TikTok dancing across the…
Celebrated as the long-awaited and much-anticipated anime adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel and the subsequent manga, Kenichiro Akimoto’s All You Need is Kill will nevertheless…
It’s bad form to criticize a movie for what it isn’t rather than engaging with what it actually is, but writer/director Zak Hilditch makes it…
One day, noticing an influx of dust into their apartment due to some construction outside, a person known only as an “academic ladyboy” (as they…
Given the longevity of Monkey Punch’s beloved Lupin III, it’s a wonder the franchise is not regarded with higher acclaim. Not that Lupin III is…
One of the least consequential but more intriguing facets of our age of technology acceleration is watching which flavor of tech nostalgia will be the…
As 2025 comes to a close and publications have all indulged the annual tradition of top 10 best -of lists, the Hollywood machine now kicks…
There has been no shortage of Silent Night, Deadly Nights over the years. The original film, released in 1984, proudly wore its ax-toting Santa Claus…
Bryan Fuller has enjoyed decades of work as a television showrunner. The mastermind behind Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, and Hannibal, Fuller excels at building…
2025 has been quite an exceptional year for theatrical anime distribution. Several months after it first came out, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is still holding…
Married directorial pair Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have consistently risked being hit by the type of criticism that considers “postmodernism” a dirty word. Many…