I am just not feeling it. Christmas this year is just a non-event. I mean, I live in L.A. where Christmas is ALWAYS a non-event but this year is ridiculous. As I write this, Los […]

I am just not feeling it. Christmas this year is just a non-event. I mean, I live in L.A. where Christmas is ALWAYS a non-event but this year is ridiculous. As I write this, Los […]
As any of you who have read my previous post on Wong Kar-Wai know, I am a huge fan. Which is why I was thrilled when Criterion finally announced a new boxed set of Wong […]
Recently, Sean Connery died. He was 90. But somehow it still seemed like a horrible shock. Just one more piece of bad news in a year filled with it. Of all the times we needed […]
The real world is such a horror show, who needs Halloween? But maybe that’s exactly why now is the time to face our fears or indulge in some flat out horror silliness to distract ourselves. […]
The 80s and 90s produced some amazing anime classics. AKIRA, GHOST IN THE SHELL and PERFECT BLUE for example. I would argue that these deserve far more than being considered great anime but deserve to […]
Back, long, long ago, in a time before streaming, in an age when Covid wasn’t a word any of us knew, I became a fan of Beat Takeshi a.k.a. Takeshi Kitano. As someone into crime […]
PARASITE by Bong Joon-ho deserves every bit of praise and attention it got. But there is another filmmaker from South Korea that film fans should become familiar with. His name is Lee Chang-dong. Lee Chang-dong […]