Movie Review: The Colors Within
2016-2017 was post Studio Ghibli grandeur from Japan’s animators, producing 3 of the best films of the year. Makoto Shinkai followed up Your Name with …
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Movie Review: Golden Kamuy
Adapting a live action version of a Japanese manga is high risk/high reward. If you succeed, you could get something really fun and well like, …
Movie Review: Evil Does Not Exist
Caffeine. If I didn’t know who Ryusuke Hamaguchi was, I would immediately start rolling my eyes as his very deliberate beginning to another one of …
Movie Review: Perfect Days
Instagram and TikTok can really skew perspective sometimes. All these lavish lifestyles, curated photos, public proclamations of love certainly seem like the ideal way to …
Movie Review: Monster (2023)
In the big US corporate world of moviemaking, stories about complex ordinary people aren’t gonna bring in the big bucks, so they only go for …
Movie Review: The Boy and the Heron
I definitely was a bit worried. While I adore what Hayao Miyazaki, the Walt Disney of Japan, he hasn’t made a film since The Wind …
Movie Review: Godzilla Minus One
I can see American audiences going: do we really need another Godzilla movie? Well, yes and no. No, we don’t need anymore American Godzilla movies, …
Movie Review: Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
My entry into Japanese anime storytelling was not Spirited Away or My Neighbor Totoro, unfortunately. Instead, it was Dragon Ball Z (DBZ), a martial arts …
Movie Review: Inu-Oh
This is a review I take very little pleasure in writing. In general, movies that are legitimately trying to do something interesting are movies that …