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…
I once carpooled from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to my small hometown in Northeast Ohio with a stranger. She was an attractive woman…
Melancholy, that inexplicable feeling of pensiveness, constitutes the centerpiece of memory, at least when memory divulges itself to its owner and defers all fantasies of…
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…
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, on October 7, 2023, opened the rhetorical floodgates on the wider population of the West’s awareness regarding the circumstances of the Israeli…
To the avid film festival observer, the gargantuan, Odyssean works of Filipino director Lav Diaz competing or winning an award is something of a staple.…
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 director, writer, and co-leading actor of All That’s Left of You, Cherien Dabis would have taken on a significant artistic challenge no matter the…
Immersing yourself in a new film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is akin to reluctantly catching up with an old friend. As of late, there’s…
A life’s linearity is only a biproduct of meticulously constructed narrative. In hindsight, things seem straightforward: clinging to your older sister’s pantlegs, you survive a…
A visual motif that reoccurs throughout Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest film, A Private Life, is a spiral staircase. Beyond being chic and Parisian in the way…